Aya Sabi & Alphonse Eklou Uwantege ON #LAFS10 And an Honorable Mention for Işıl Biçakçi in Amsterdam. This fall you will meet Aya Sabi and Dounia Mahammed with their research on intergenational comfort as well as Alphonse Eklou Uwantege’s poetic reste(s) during Love at First Sight. Shown last year as a Work in Progress, soon […]
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 […]
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 […]
Woohooow the WIPCOOP whirlwind is just around the corner! We can hardly believe it but the first WIPCOOP of this year is already taking place in exactly one month (@KVS in BXL more info soon)! We are really looking forward to it and are incredibly excited to see the moving, funny, inspiring, … WIPs the […]
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 […]
Great news from The Hague: dancer/movement and choreographer Melisa Diktaş is the winner of the BNG Dance Award 2025! On Thursday, April 17, this was announced in theater house Korzo, where the jury was deeply impressed by her solo Dat wat ontembaar is. As the winner, Melisa may tour eight Dutch theaters with her performance, […]
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 […]
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 […]
