Justine Theizen is a 25-year-old dancer, choreographer and hip-hop artist. She trained first in hip-hop for several years and then in krump for 3 years. She grew up in an urban culture, with battles, choreographic competitions and music videos.
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.
Yaye Daro, which means mother Daro in Wolof, is a multidisciplinary artist with Senegalese, Frisian and Belgian roots, whose practice revolves around frequencies and shaping them.
Although music and sound form the core of his creative output, he is deeply interested in – and influenced by – all kinds of frequencies, for example: light, colors, bodily frequencies, but also smells (does it also see frequencies?).
In his work, he tries to find out what they mean.
How they influence us.
How different kinds of frequencies influence each other, and mainly how they result in virtuous circles/cycles.
Anna Karenina Lambrechts is a dancer from Leuven, Belgium.
Since graduating from Fontys Hogeschool voor de Kunsten (Tilburg /NL), she has been mainly active professionally in Brussels.
In 2017, she started at Anton Lachky Company and collaborated in three productions: Cartoon, Family Journey and Ludum.
At Ultima Vez, she can be seen in: Go Figure Out Yourself, Traces, Hands Do Not Touch Your Precious Me and Scattered Memories.
From 2021, she will be looking into her own work and delving into Krumping.
Her first solo performance The Sensual Side explores the multiple layers of personality.
Jarne VAN Perck and Cynthia VERpoorten together form collective VanVer.
For their artistic practice, VanVer explores everyday issues such as death, language or intimacy and what they can mean in the field of dance.
Augusto Pedraza is a theater and filmmaker, performer and historian living in Mechelen.
In 2020, he graduated from RITCS as a director.
His first short film Violence premiered in 2021 and was selected for several festivals.
Through dance, theater, film, visual art and music, he speaks about themes of origin, identity, love, pessimism, violence and hope.
Carla Parcianello is a professional dancer from Italy, now based in Belgium (Leuven).
She has an urban dance background and embraces performative styles such as Waacking and footwork-based styles such as UK Jazz Fusion and House Dance.
She is active in the ”urban dance battle” community and immersed herself in the fundamentals of contemporary dance (Gaga, Flying Low and Butoh).
Işıl Biçakçi was born and raised in Istanbul.
She earned a degree in Computer Science and realized that coding and programming was not the profession she dreamed of.
She completed an acting course at the Müjdat Gezen Theatre Academy and a course in Contemporary Dance at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in Istanbul.
Even during her training, her choreographies proved to contain clarity, a subtle dose of irony and a fine sense of humor, which remains recognizable in her later choreographies.
David Labi is a London-born storyteller.
He has lived in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Berlin and now in Belgium.
With his agency Good Point, he helps NGOs and cause-driven campaigns reach people with empathy and creativity.
His artistic journey runs through workshops and experience design, magazine editing, TV news scriptwriting, filmmaking, literary translation, copywriting,… and since 2021 he has been taking his first steps toward performance theater.
Bilge Arkac is a theater-pantomime artist and yoga instructor, born in Belgium but raised in Istanbul.
Passionate about the arts since childhood, she took numerous courses such as modern dance, painting, piano and voice training.
Nadia Alhassanat grew up in Gaza, Palestine. From an early age, she wrote poetry and short stories and was bitten by theater. Despite her family’s opposition, she chose a career in the arts and left for Algeria to pursue Theater and Film Studies and an acting degree.
Timur Magomedgadzhiev is a performer. His main practice is body expression and voice, theater and cinema.
Tamayo Okano studied at P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels and then worked as a professional dancer/actor in different companies such as Les Ballets C. De la B., NTGent. In recent years she worked through kunstZ and in addition, she participated in an international children and youth festival in Japan.
Alex Deijmann is a Dancer, Choreographer, Improviser, Activist and Social Scientist by training.
