On Sunday 22 and Monday 23 January 2012, If I Can’t Dance in collaboration with the Stedelijk Museum organised a Class of Masters with Matt Mullican at Frascati in Amsterdam. Mullican was accompanied by master of dance Nicole Beutler, master of performance Suchan Kinoshita and master from theatre Joachim Robbrecht, who, each from their own discipline, shared their knowledge on acting out a script with the masterclass participants. During a two day programme masterclass participants worked on acting out a series of scripts on stage in short rehearsal sessions. The Class of Mastersaimed to practically think through questions of repetition and reproduction in performance and specifically examined how a person becomes a character.

If I Can’t Dance invited curator Vanessa Desclaux to note down her impressions. Download her text below.