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.
NIEMANDSLAND. Searching for a home, in a place where you don’t feel at home. Anna Borodikhina raps, sings, plays and talks about how she moves in a world in which she does not feel herself at home. Anna’s Tatar Muslim mother was born in East Berlin, the daughter of an army officer. Her father grew […]
Somalia Williamson received a bachelor’s degree in performing arts from the American Musical & Dramatic Academy, College and Conservatory of the Performing Arts NY/LA, and came to live in Antwerp in 2016.
Since then, she has collaborated on projects by kunstZ, Froefroe, Amaj Productions and Rooftoptiger’s Babelbühne, among others.
At 32, Yousra Dahry seems to have already lived a thousand lives.
She has been an educator, a radio host, a columnist, a journalist, an art director and, since 2016, a slam poet.
This creation is her first one-man show.
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 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.
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 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.
Lukah 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 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.
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 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.
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 […]
