UPDATE : WIPCOOP BXL will take a different form this edition without an audience. Together with the artists, we are looking at an alternative, WIPCOOP BXL #BEHINDDOORS. More info on that soon !
WIPCOOP BXL 2020 lands Oct. 28 – for the fourth year in a row – at KVS with Work In Progress by Nina Muñoz, Lila Magnin, Jihan Imago and Cie.Barhal. This edition we are adding an extra day and location! Oct. 29, Salim Haouach, Mouss Sarr and Andrea Gallo Rosso present a Work In Progress at the Kaaistudio’s. Each artist or collective will show max 30 minutes from new work in development. Afterwards, they will engage in a dialogue with about 10 professionals about the further development of their work and possible support.
4 x Work In Progress – 28.10 @ KVS
10:00 – 10:30 Lila Magnin – Azad What makes one movement masculine and another feminine? What attracts and intrigues Lila is the confusion and disconnection of genres to come up with a less defined style. 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.
Credits: Lila Magnin / dance – With the support of Le BAMP.
11:30 – 12:00 Nina Muñoz – La Ave What if we disconnect gender from the body and connect it to time or language? Can we rethink our binary humanity? Through this dance theater performance, Nina Muñoz seeks to reintegrate the binary structure of gender into a multidimensional concept. Nina Muñoz focuses on social dynamics, the genesis of social systems and explores how to deconstruct them through movement, theater and poetry.
Credits: Nina Muñoz / Directing – Justine Theizen /Krump & Hiphop, Sandra Hilaerts / Vogue, Stanley Olivier / Contemporary & Vogue – Pepijn Leenders / Music – Coach: Kopano Maroga – With the support of Zinnema, Social Fund Podiumkunsten.
14:00 – 14:30 Jihan Imago – Natural Born Healer A solo full of poetry – halfway between fiction and autobiography – about wandering, a long journey and healing. The protagonist goes on the run, escapes a tragic fate and sets out to find himself. A cinematic dream à la Lynch, a macabre road trip AND love story, a nod to Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers and Gregg Araki’s Doom Generation. A story about how to love AND survive. Jihan Imago is a visual artist and Trans* activist who is devoting himself to a new discipline with this dance performance.
Credits: Jihan Imago/Regie and performance – Nedjma Hadj Benchelabi/Dramaturge – Enzo Tibi/Scénographie & film – Quan Bui Ngoc / Coach Choreo – With the support of Citylab-Pianofabriek, PodiumKunsten and Darna.
15:30 – 16:00 Cie. Barhal – Enter The BCU The scheming antics of 4 classmates continue to derail. Enter The BCU is a dance performance by Company Barhal in which they return to their childhood, tantalizing the nostalgia of the elderly while entertaining the younger guard.
Credits: Oumar Diallo, Tomas Ntamashimikiro, Walid Boho and Danys Vanderhaeghen / dance and direction – With the support of Lezarts Urbains.
3 x Work In Progress – 29.10 @ Kaaistudios
10:00 – 10:30 Salim Haouach – The One (Et Demi) Man Show Who today knows what a man is or should be? To what extent are gender roles determined by social and cultural frameworks? As a man, what to do with the diverse and changing expectations around masculinity? And how do you speak to other people about that? In this performance, structured like a TV show, actor Salim Haouach questions not only his own conceptions of manhood, but also those of the audience.
Credits: A performance by: Salim Haouach, Pitcho Womba Konga, Youness Mernissi / Zina Hamzaoui, Bie Vancraeynest /Advies – A production of Ras El Hanout – With the support of Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Commission Communautaire Française, Centre Culturel des Riches-Claires, KVS.
11:30 – 12:00 Mouss Sarr – Black In Black Mouss Sarr departs from his personal feeling of falling between 2 worlds as a Belgian with Senegalese roots. While dancing, he interprets texts by an African-American writer Neiel Israel whose experiences he mostly (h)acknowledges despite the distance. A performance about identity, racism, colonialism and communitarianism in light of current events.
Mouss Sarr is a choreographer, dancer (hip-hop, dancehall and krump), founder & artistic director of Timiss, a platform where he provides space for urban dancers.
14:00 – 14:30 Andrea Gallo Rosso – Pièce Per CINQUE [COVID versie] As a result of the socio-economic situation, a large number of people are moving around the world in mass migrations. The immediate consequence in our society is a strong sense of fear and conflict. Pièce Per Cinque is an artistic research and multidisciplinary dance performance about the encounter between “new” and “old” citizens. Andrea Gallo Rosso is an Italian choreographer who has lived in Brussels since 2020.
Credits: choreography / movement: Andrea Gallo Rosso music / video Andrea Cauduro | in collaboration with Centro Nazionale di Produzione della Danza Scenario Pubblico (IT) with the support of CEDAC Sardegna – multidisciplinar regional circuit (IT) project residencies: Lavanderia a Vapore (IT), choreographic residencies La Factory – théâtre de L’Oulle de Avignone (F) courtesy of INTERPLAY Festival, CROSS Project–—-
MAP’S W I P C O O P = ARENBERG, KVS, KUNSTZ, CAMPO, VICTORIA DELUXE, TONEELHUIS, KAVKA, MARTHA!TENTATIEF, DE CENTRALE, DETHEATERMAKER, MADAM FORTUNA, NTGENT, KOPERGIETERY, FAMEUS, 0090, WPZIMMER, ARSENAAL/LAZARUS, AFDELING KUNST CULTUUR MECHELEN (CC MECHELEN, H30, ARTENOVA, BIB) I.S.M. KAAITHEATER, OC NOVA, BE HUMAN, LET’S GO URBAN, PIANOFABRIEK/CITYLAB, SPREEKUUR (PODIUMKUNSTEN), RATAPLAN, KUNSTENPUNT, REKTO:VERSO, THEATERFESTIVAL, GLOBE AROMA, THEATER AAN ZEE, LEZARTS URBAINS, FABULEUS, WORKSPACEBRUSSELS, TRANSFO COLLECT, VOORUIT, BIJ DE VIEZE GASTEN, ZINNEMA, DANSPUNT, THASSOS, SOCHA, KC NONA, DE MAAN, REKTO:VERSO, ETCETERA AMPLO / WITH SUPPORT FROM: VLAAMSE GEMEENSCHAP
