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.
FATHERLAND tells a coming-of-age story about children from the diaspora. Through letters to one another (and to themselves) Myra and Yasmine share experiences from their journeys to Morocco, a place that carries roots of both makers. They long to belong, but as personal memories become entangled with migration histories, research and current events, their perspective […]
How does the body react to the un-silencing of a language you don’t speak, but one that flows through your veins? In to swallow my grandmother’s tongue luz attempts to “swallow” their grandmother’s language—Cape Verdean Creole. A gesture driven by a hunger for an emotional and embodied connection to a language that was never taught […]
Metronorm is a choreographic and visual immersion in the heart of the urban space. Through the lens of the subway, two dancers embody the forced coexistence of shared rout(in)es and paths that collide with one another. Blending cinematic aesthetics with industrial rhythms, the piece explores the social ties that influence our daily commutes. How do […]
What does it mean to love God when His word has been twisted to justify violence against your body and identity? This question is the starting point in Izo’s autobiographical work Thank God I’m not straight . Through dance, speaking plainly, and participatory performance, he reconciles his “incompatible identities” as a queer person and a […]
Ivan Kevork Azazian, Gökhan Kizilbuga, and Marios Bellas explore, given their backgrounds in Palestine/Armenia, Kurdistan, and Greece, what they share: their history within the Ottoman Empire, the brotherhood of their ancestors, the oppression by the Turkish Republic, the pain that followed, and the sounds that emerged from it all: rhythms that chronicle the genocides. Through […]
“While immigration is often seen as a geographical movement, we want to approach it in a broader sense. Every stage of life is a form of migration: being born, growing up, loving, parting ways, rebuilding oneself. We are constantly crossing visible and invisible boundaries that transform our identity and leave their mark on us. Immigration […]
Hoe zeg je “kom terug”? (How to say “come back“?) is a poetic documentary theater performance about the new, the old and the returning faces of the Rif (Morocco), the land of Hannah‘s ancestors. Which examines how the encroaching hospitality-industry is reshaping the region’s landscape and identity. The Rif is shown as a place-in-transit: between […]
Bodies of Conflict and Avoidance (working title) We move past one another— bodies in transit pass each other in a shared space—each carrying invisible baggage. “We avoid, we protect ourselves, we retreat into the self,” but what if our inner conflicts were visible? In *Bodies of Conflict and Avoidance*, Misha Demoustier makes the invisible tangible. […]
Birds Cries is a dance performance that begins with the desire to collaborate—with other bodies and other rhythms. Using familiar concepts of rhythmic systems, Amina explores how rhythmic patterns guide and control the body, evoke memories, and shape behavior. Together with other dancers on stage, she creates a new soundscape that reinterprets old sounds, unravels […]
In Lilo Soleil, leïla alice creates a sensory universe in which poetry, music, makeup and scenography merge into an intimate ritual. Through their alter ego Lilo Soleil – a mermaid who speaks through color and sound – they explore the reconciliation of multiple identities. The body becomes a canvas, the voice an archive, and the […]
il était un foie. In her one-woman show, Sanae Jamaï takes you on an intimate journey through her inner world, where illness is not an enemy, but a life partner. Through word and dance, she gives voice to silence, loneliness and the strength that lies in vulnerability. With humor and honesty, she breaks taboos around […]
In An Exercise in Acknowledgement: The Black Hermit, named after the play by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Lois Lumonga Brochez takes you on a personal search for Isaiah Pulania Lukanganyma, her Zambian grandfather whom she never knew. Inspired by the oral storytelling traditions of the Bemba and Kaonde cultures, she revives a lost archive through voice, […]
