Every WIPCOOP edition there are new artists who participate. Here you will find an overview of all artists who have participated since 2009. Since 2019, each of them gets a page. On it you will find information about who they are and which performance they presented as a work in progress (and possibly further realized or will realize later), as well as photos of this. Do you want to know more about an artist, or do you need their contact information? Send us an email.
Zach Swagga was inspired by artists Koffi Olomide, Michael Jackson and Mc Hammer in the 1990s and became known for his show “Back to the Roots.”
He formed a band called Wake Up and started the Kobo Power movement.
He has represented Belgium in the US, Japan, France, Germany, Greece, etc.
Frank Van Neerboom is a youth coach, dance coach and assistant choreographer including Festus by Victoria Deluxe, Le Sacre Du Printemps a production by Alain Platel and Victoria Deluxe.
Nerkiz Sahin (writer), together with Ülkü Dursun (psychologist), addresses the issues faced by women who live or grow up in a country with a different cultural frame of reference.
Through theater, they want to make stories discussable that barely see the light of day.
Nela Deleu reveals a specifically intimate and recognizable love story with VLAMINGO, her path to becoming a Fleming.
Nela moved 5 years ago from Bosnia-Herzegovina – where she was an actress (film & theater) – to Belgium for love.
Nitish Kumar Bhardwaj is an actor, director and writer of poetry and plays.
He studied multimedia and animation where he researched the anthropological approach “rasā” through dramaturgy and how it can touch audiences.
Ayham Qomoq is an actor, writer and filmmaker who studied at the art academy in Homs, Syria.
In Belgium, he continues his artistic trajectory.
Sandra Delgadillo Porcel is a dancer and choreographer.
In 2000, she debuted at “Scratching The Inner Fields” by VandeKeybus.
She is at home in the Martial Arts (Taekwondo and Capoeira), hip-hop and Club circuits and studied at the Higher Institute of Dance.
She toured with Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui for 10 years.
Today she coaches dancers at artZ, DANSPUNT, among others, and she has developed many arts education projects over the years.
Nina Plantefève-Castryck studied at the Koninklijke Balletschool Antwerpen and danced with professional contemporary dance companies such as; Tanzcompanie Giessen, Tanzcompagnie Landesbuhnen Sachsen, Conny Janssen, Korzo Theater Den haag, Ryan Djojokarso, Zuhause Groningen and Irene Kalbusch.
In recent years she has focused more on her own choreographies (often in collaboration with dancer Alex AKuete – cfr. Essence of Life, Connect With Your Demons) and created Rond.
NIEMANDSLAND. Searching for a home, in a place where you don’t feel at home. Anna Borodikhina raps, sings, plays and talks about how she moves in a world in which she does not feel herself at home. Anna’s Tatar Muslim mother was born in East Berlin, the daughter of an army officer. Her father grew […]
Somalia Williamson received a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the American Musical & Dramatic Academy, College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts NY/LA, and came to live in Antwerp in 2016.
Since then, she has collaborated on projects by kunstZ, Froefroe, Amaj Productions and Rooftoptiger’s Babelbühne, among others.
At 32, Yousra Dahry seems to have already lived a thousand lives.
She has been an educator, a radio host, a columnist, a journalist, an art director and, since 2016, a slam poet.
This creation is her first one-man show.
