“Zoë Chungong makes us think, provokes discussion, and forces us to look: at her, at each other, at ourselves. That in itself is an accomplishment.”(Aïcha Mouhamou, Pzazz) A solo performance for dancer Zoë Chungong: “You rarely get opportunities if you don’t ask for them” (Hit & Run, The Standard) “I am more than a set […]
Some articles did appear on This is (not) the evolutionary theory of comfort. We are happy to list some of them for you. e-tcetera – What remains after This is (not) the evolutionary theory of comfort review by Maliqa Faye. The Standard –Aya Sabi and Dounia Mahammed create a monologue about healing: “If pain […]
A casting becomes a mirror of a larger political narrative, in which Palestine also seems to be auditioning for the right to exist. On Feb. 2, Rubin Ajlouni premiered his first show Rubin. Rubin started his trajectory with MAP during WIPCOOP 2023. Then he delivered a monologue Jasser, a text by Abdelkader Benali. After WIPCOOP, […]
After an amazing WIPCOOP series, we feel the party mood starting to take over. But not before looking back on the past year – and sharing with you the first steps towards 2026. Because January and February are all about residencies: MaPZimmer and Shared Research, Shared Practices. Retrospective: 2025 2025 was another top-notch edition, with […]
During the past WIPCOOP days, we drew a red line through four cities. Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp and Ghent colored equally red. We invited the audience to literally help draw the red line. Each city built on what the previous one had started, growing the line from one meter to dozens of meters. The red line […]
This was WIPCOOP Ghent 2025 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Last week, the time had come… the very last WIPCOOP of the season(sad!). This closing edition took place at CAMPO victoria, where Shivadas De Schrijver, Hannah Zaouad, Aday Morales and Aminata Soumaré shared with us their works in progress. The works were very diverse–poetic, vulnerable, theatrical, powerful–but they had […]
During t e r r i t o r i o last week, we briefly imagined ourselves in Spain. The sun seemed to be shining just a little brighter, Lakensestraat smelled like savory tortilla and the rolling r’s were… rolling. t e r r i t o r i o searches for artistic surprises outside […]
“With ‘Four Walls,’ rapper and director Marios Bellas said he created a hip-hop ritual. At first glance, that seems like an odd combination. Hip-hop has its own ritual forms, but here it is placed in a theatrical framework. The question, then, is not what such a hip-hop ritual means, but what it demands. A review […]
This was WIPCOOP Antwerp 2025! WIPCOOP landed in Arenberg again this year, where three Antwerp artists (/collectives) took the stage. Kaspy Ndia, Yvette Poumpalova and Gwendalyne van Erp & Deniz Polatoğlu each shared 30 minutes of their Work in Progress. They gave everything – they moved, surprised and made audiences laugh out loud more than […]
Program creator Vera Bonder and co-curator Sunni Lamin Barrow selected a work during Fringe Festival in Amsterdam that deeply touches on humanity – and that became Aline Olmos Steler’s work – The Origin of the Future, on view at KVS during WIPCOOP 2025. Aline won a spot at the What You See festival and developed […]
Dec. 4 during WIPCOOP Gent at CAMPO Victoria, Aday Morales, Aminata Soumaré, Shivadas De Schrijver and Hannah Zaouad will each show a Work In Progress of up to 30 minutes. Get ready for a day covering a wide range of themes including: relational and political power, dancing sounds and hushed rhythms, echoes of a sectarian […]
Praising review for Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne – Kidnapped: A Training Ground for the Brutality that is Coming by Wouter Hilaert “Rarely do you see performances that go for it so hard, that try so comprehensively to decode the whole world in its coherence, by just unraveling the complexity of it. But above all, […]
