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Photo album WIPCOOP Leuven 2025

✨ This was WIPCOOP Leuven 2025 — a very special edition highlighting voices from the urban and hip-hop scene. Chipo Sikumba, Israël Ngashi and Zoë Noise each showed a work in progress — raw work in full development. They gave their (as well as their dancers and actors) very best, and left the — very […]

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. […]

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 […]

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Review: Four Walls (by Pieter Verstraete)

Last week a nice review of Marios Bellas and Four Walls appeared in the Theaterkrant, written by Pieter Verstraete. “Four Walls ” is a thunderous hip-hop ritual that starts from the beating of the chest by the audience and that shimmers through to the end. In a long-drawn-out scenic poem with a mix of musical […]

WIPCOOP 2025: kick off

Hello hello hello!   It’s official – the names of the artists who will participate in WIPCOOP 2025 are known! After a long and intense selection period, we finally saw each other in person for the first time over the past few weeks. During the community moments in each city, we already got to know […]

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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 […]

Photo album WIPCOOP Gent 2024

The last stop of this season… This was WIPCOOP Ghent 2024 ⚡️ @ De Kazematten with NTGent – a beautiful photo essay by Victoriano Moreno.   On Dec. 5, Gökhan Kizilbuga, Hilair Libobu Francisco, Valeria Saija & Nicolas Vladyslav and Purni Morell & Maria Dafneros each presented 30 minutes of their works-in-progress. Between these – […]

Photo album WIPCOOP Antwerp 2024

Wohooow! This was WIPCOOP Antwerp 2024 ⚡️@ Kambala (Toneelhuis) – a beautiful visual report by Victoriano Moreno. During this two (!) day WIPCOOP-edition, Aya Sabi, Joana Rossi, Ayoub Sadik, reinier, Anastassya Savitsky and Zoë Chungong were each given 30 minutes to present their performances-in-formation. .We kicked off WIPCOOP Antwerp as usual – with coffee, tea […]

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