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A liquid community of imaginers in the In Betweens

Reflectie van Enrica Camporesi na twee dagen vol ontmoetingen en inspiratie During the kick-off of WIPCOOP 2025 at KVS on Oct. 8 and 9, Enrica Camporesi, together with the audience, explored the In-Between Space – or the In Betweens. That in-between space is a place – of encounters, stories and inspiration – that MAP will […]

Photo album WIPCOOP BXL 2025

What a stunner of an edition: WIPCOOP Brussels 2025!Impressive work and sparkling, fresh ideas were shared, first steps in the artists’ makership We were taken into the universes that the artists want to further explore, deepen, develop. In between the presentations, people talked, drew, networked, caught up on emails ;-), slurped soup and devoured cookies. […]

Magazine #6 WIPCOOP 2025

Every year we publish a magazine to shine a light on the artists of last year’s WIPCOOP (2024) and on the plays/performances that resulted from previous editions. Read the brand new zine here!

About connection, difference and the thin lines between them

4 x work in progress on care, identity and connection – WIPCOOP Antwerp Thursday, Nov. 20, during WIPCOOP in Arenberg, Gwendalyne van Erp and Deniz Polatoğlu, Kaspy Ndia, Yvette Poumpalova, Zilan Nergiz Arsu, Bora Nura & Eden Anastasia Emlek will each present a Work in Progress of up to 30 minutes, followed by a conversation […]

From Anansi’s web to the power of krump and fire: WIPCOOP Leuven.

New voices, new vibes Oct. 22, 2025 – MINNEPOORT/30CC, Leuven After STUK and OPEK (fABULEUS), this year 30CC at the Minnepoort will open its doors to WIPCOOP – WORK IN PROGRESS by MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM. What the WIP? During WIPCOOP, both the public and the art sector have a unique opportunity to discover new work […]

Eight visions. One vibrant meeting. WIPCOOP BXL in KVS.

WIPCOOP 2025 kicks off at KVS with 8 x work-in-progress presentations. Early creations in full development – searching, growing, challenging. Oct. 8 and 9 — come meet makers and their work – raw, poetic, physical, rhythmic – in the black box at KVS. Save these dates for a program full of dance, poetry, music, voice […]

Now how are things going for Omar Cortegana?

Na een passage op WIPCOOP 2023 in Campo Victoria voerden we gesprekken met Omar Cortegana over: Peke, alles waait beter met una cancion, een muzikale theatervoorstelling voor kinderen (én hun ouders).* In 2024, we saw the OPEN CALL of Op Visite pass and Omar was obviously one of the artists to whom the open call […]

What after the 2023 international WIPCOOP edition?

The 2023 edition of WIPCOOP brought together an international company of promising artists. What happened to their work after that? We look back at the trajectories of Melisa Diktaş (Amsterdam), Eli Mathieu-Bustos (Brussels) and Ping-Hsiang Wang (Berlin), and how their careers continued to grow after WIPCOOP. Melisa Diktaş is a dancer and maker who develops […]

album prospectiedag2 - Victoriano Moreno (c) 2025

Review Care (Past/Present/Future) in etcetera (by Amber Maes)

A rushed performance about caring “In a hectic, laboriously told performance, dancer Tamayo Okano wants to tell the audience something about caring. Care (Past/Present/Future) claims to be about how different generations of women care for others and, if possible, for themselves. What we get to see revolves mostly around an undigested mother-daughter bond, in which […]

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