Artists

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.

 

Briana Ashley Stuart

Briana Ashley Stuart is an American performer, teacher and choreographer who lives and works in Brussels.
Her professional experience ranges from contemporary dance to African-American dance traditions such as Stepping.
Moving Meditations is an examination of this last lesser-known dance form.
The history and culture of art forms and how they relate to the human condition intrigue her.

Jenny Onya Ambukiyenyi

Jenny Ambukiyenyi Onya took her first steps on the Brussels scene with Elikya Na Ngai, Rape of Women in the DRC – in March 2016.
In Religion?
Kitend¡ she again combines dance (Hip-Hop, Ndombolo, Krumping and Dancehall) and theater.
The story is set in Congo, a country she cherishes.

ROXANE HARDY

The performers – Kevin Messa and Roxane Hardy – try to accept their whole being.
They share their inner struggles and how they experience the road to awakening.

Inès El Bakari & Jad Zeitouni

Inès El Bakari and Jad Amine Zeitouni have both been active in Ras El Hanout for several years.
For example, they were featured in “The D-Word” and “Home Sweet Home.
With ‘Qui cherche, die vindt,’ they aim to link cultural awareness to the many different ways they identify with a very unique touch.

Lucas Katangila

Lucas Katangila is a choreographer, dancer and performer with a passion for hip hop, contemporary and traditional African dance.
Through the Mboka Dance Family – in Goma where he grew up – he has been introduced to dance and playing instruments such as djembe, likembe, kalumbatini, marimba, dungu and kinubi since an early age.

Junior Akwety & Zach Swagga

Junior Akwety is a singer, songwriter and actor.
His music has taken him halfway around the world, from Los Angeles to Cape Town.
In recent years, he has also appeared in KVS productions Malcolm X and L’Homme de La Mancha.
With My House, he brings together his various passions in a first directorial effort.

Rabina Miya

FNUIKEN Inspired by her family history, Rabina Miya creates a surreal world in which she and 3 performers search for their wings. A dance performance about vulnerability, recovery and transformation.

Vianney Adriaens

Vianney Adriaens mixes the last words of these three iconic African men together into a raw, intense monologue about society and power, ambitions and illusions, love and hate.
The lost African dream takes center stage, and Adriaens masterfully switches between three charismatic characters.

e-c-h-e-l-o-n

Where time waits, impatience gives way to hate. e-c-h-e-l-o-n starts from experiment, exploring stories. Their new creation “Bliss” makes its way along the family’s twisted roots, built from memories blown away by Amun. A journey within which the narrator questions time and his limits. A production of e-c-h-e-l-o-n. With the support of Rataplan, WIPCOOP/MESTIZO ARTS […]

Lila Magnin

Lila Magnin is a dancer, choreographer and musician.
She shares her visual and musical universe on stage and through social media.
Azad is her first dance solo.

Tister Ikomo

Tister Ikomo is a dancer, choreographer and musician who traveled through the different provinces in Congo to study the rich tradition of Congolese dances.
In Kinshasa, he is assistant choreographer of the artistic company Arumbaya.
He also worked with Alain Platel and Fabrizio Cassol, among others, as a dancer for the show Coup Fatal and as a percussionist for Sidi Larbi …

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