Anna Karenina Lambrechts dances between proximity and boundaries In her solo From Gravity to Grace, Anna Karenina Lambrechts shows that she effortlessly touches audiences with her unique dance idiom: a powerful blend of krump, contemporary dance and both traditional and contemporary Filipino dance forms. “That is the hallmark and peculiarity of this performance: how the […]
Ping Hsiang Wang examines identity and gaze “Ping, in Retina Maneuver, looks at himself in the mirror ánd thus also morphs our gaze. I would almost dare call that the shortest definition of exciting art… So I sincerely hope that more people in our theatre area will still get to see this solo.” – Wouter […]
After three exciting weeks, our 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 residence comes to an end. Beautiful photo essay by Karolina Maruszak 🙂 During this period, Colette Goossens stepped into Britney’s shoes for the first time, Rubin Ajlouni wrote and rewrote his text, and Gökhan Kizilbuga refined his installation and video montages. On Friday, Feb. 28, the […]
Half the art of telling a story well is a good story. The other half is not so much empathy, but just distance. Especially when that story, as with David Labi in “Pieces of a Man,” is about your own father. Or is Labi himself the man in pieces from the title? True storytelling lies […]
‘Intellectual terror’ – Aïcha Mouhamou on Kidnapped by Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. “I would like to see this much guts more often,” writes Aïcha Mouhamou in her review of Kidnapped, the performance by playwrights Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. In her piece, titled Intellectual Terror, she praises Batista’s uncompromising and confrontational style: “The white […]
In February, our shared residency Shared Research, Shared Practices will kick off! During this third edition, Gökhan Kizilbuga, Rubin Ajlouni and Colette Goossens will delve into their research and share their experiments in three cultural houses: Monty, Rataplan and c o r s o. Each week they move on to a different house to continue […]
Every year (more or less ;-)) MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM and Thassos join forces for PROSPECTIEDAG for programmers – a day packed with showcases and pitches designed to further disseminate performances by artists from the WIPCOOP network. This edition took place at the cozy Borgerhout wpZimmer, with the following lineup: Showcases: Sefora “Sesa” Sam | Tamayo […]
With pride and – already – a touch of nostalgia, we look back at our ninth edition WIPCOOP Brussels, @KVS – a pictorial report by the amazing Victoriano Moreno. On Oct. 16, Julia Färber Data, Kongi Milka Mbunga, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Souhaïla Amri and Nastasya Kharitonova each showed 30 minutes of their performances-in-progress. The KVS […]
The WIPCOOP 2024-artists, along with the Roel Verniers Prize candidates, attended the Pitch & Feedback workshop led by Aïcha Cissé. During the workshop, the artists were given valuable tools to engage with audiences and arts professionals both during the creative process and after a performance. How do you pitch a project? What makes your […]
Augusto Pedraza presented 30 minutes from his work in progress: Hello Schatje, Adios Amour, during WIPCOOP 2023 in STUK and KVS. In Brussels, he met WIPCOOP partners from Barcelona, including the colleagues of Nau Ivanow. This acquaintance developed into one of the opportunities to take further steps in the development of the work. This was […]
So, what about the further development of Rubin Ajlouni’s monologue Jasser? Rubin Ajlouni shared at WIPCOOP 2023 in Kambala* a preview of the first stages of his very first creation of his own, and gave the monologue Jasser, to a text by Abdelkader Benali, a breath of fresh air. During the follow-up discussion with some […]
3 artists, 3 locations, 3 weeks. During the Shared Practices & Research Residency, Marios Bellas, Pablo Correa (via MAP) and Tibau Beirnaert (via detheatermaker) each delved into their research from Feb. 19 to March 8. Research and knowledge sharing took center stage. They met weekly on Mondays to exchange about their research and artistic practice. […]
