Wohooow! This was WIPCOOP Antwerp 2024 ⚡️@ Kambala (Toneelhuis) – a beautiful visual report by Victoriano Moreno. During this two (!) day WIPCOOP-edition, Aya Sabi, Joana Rossi, Ayoub Sadik, reinier, Anastassya Savitsky and Zoë Chungong were each given 30 minutes to present their performances-in-formation. .We kicked off WIPCOOP Antwerp as usual – with coffee, tea […]
With Hier ben ik, Manu goes in search of his roots. To better understand himself and his place in the world. Because: if you want to know who you are, you have to know where you came from.
During the Artist Day, Antwerp arts organizations will share their programs and ways they plan to support artists/artists. By organizing an informal gathering, Artist Day aims to promote connection and accessibility between organizations, artists and art workers based or connected to or the Antwerp art scene.
The WIPCOOP 2024-artists, along with the Roel Verniers Prize candidates, attended the Pitch & Feedback workshop led by Aïcha Cissé. During the workshop, the artists were given valuable tools to engage with audiences and arts professionals both during the creative process and after a performance. How do you pitch a project? What makes your […]
Anastassya Savitsky (she/her) graduated from the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp. Since then she worked mainly as a dancer and creator in the children’s and youth circuit (Theater FroeFroe, HETPALEIS, solo Dinska Bronska MartHa!tentatief – selected for the Theater Festival 2014).
How we look affects how we experience the world. Attractive people are often treated better in our society, but pretty privilege also has a downside. In the three-part dance solo The Ethereal Paradox, Zoë Chungong explores the meaning of beauty. In her triptych, Zoë outlines different ways a woman presents or deploys her body: three […]
OUT LOUD is a process based creative crew made up of multidisciplinary artists. Starting from rhythm and improvisation, they explore the fluidity between different art forms. They bring together experimental music, performance, visual arts and video in the melting pot called theater. Vocals & Creative Direction: reinier – Bass: Yohan Calvo (Le Projet Insecte) – […]
Textile Tales is the translation of Joana Rossi’s research into the social fabric. How are we connected to each other? What threads are stretched between the individual and the social context? What relationships, what vibrations are there between individual and society? Textiles are so intertwined with humanity that our relationship with them is natural. We […]
Is one life enough to be whole again? is an interdisciplinary performance by Aya Sabi that transcends theater walls. The narratological conflict is the paradox between rationality and irrationality. An ode to irrationality, this performance becomes a sensory experience. Sense is emphasized through cooking. Shams (main character) chooses cooking because cooking is the language of […]
“Hottentottententententoonstelling” may sound like a funny tongue twister. The word refers to the Khoikhoi, also known as the Hottentots, an indigenous people in South Africa. This designation, originally used by Dutch settlers and inspired by the dance rituals of the Khoikhoi, is now seen as a derogatory term that mocks the culture and identity of […]
