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 and stories with roots. Eight different universes – with a common thread: the search for connection, eloquence and the power of imagination.
You will encounter work that reaches for identity and belonging, that speaks about mourning, memory and embodiment, that uses rhythm and voice to heal, honor or mirror. Stories about illness as companion, alter egos as liberation, gaze as encounter, and rhythm as memory, where the body speaks as oracle and archive, about the feminine and the invisible, about resistance and generating movement.
The creators and their work:
Misha Demoustier makes the invisible tangible in Bodies of Conflict and Avoidance, a physical solo about grief, doubt and how we live past each other.
In An Exercise in Acknowledgement: The Black Hermit, Lois Lumonga Brochez brings a lost family history to life through voice, rhythm and memory.
With il était un foie, Sanae Jamaï performs a vulnerable yet humorous solo about living with illness, resilience and the right to be different.
leïla alice invites you into the sensory universe of Lilo Soleil – an intimate ritual about identity, gentleness and self-liberation.
In One Look, Fanny Van Geel, Xavier Bascho-George & Claire Deniau play with dance, voice and classical piano in a dialogue about looking, meeting and embracing difference.
With Birds Cries, Amina Abouelghar explores how rhythm triggers memory, connects bodies and generates new movement patterns.
This year we are again welcoming international creators and international partners: Aline Olmos Steler (Right About Now Inc., Amsterdam) and Nazanin Bahrami (Tatwerk, Berlin).
Nazanin Bahrami works with images and archives surrounding death, viewing them through the lens of the masculine and Western perspective. Her performance, collage and photography show grief as a feminist, performative act of resistance to dominant narratives.
Aline Olmos Steler presents Trilogy of Satiety: Part 1 – The Rediscovery of the Future – Oracular Practices, in which she uses vaginal fluid as a source of oracular insights. With humor and absurdity, she explores the boundaries of performance, puppet theater and circus, questioning what is considered acceptable within contemporary art.
Denise Duncan (Tinta Negra, Barcelona) and Kristin Rogghe (Mallorca, Brussels) will give an insight into their research at Le Bamp Nov. 28 as part of Territorio (KVS).
*** Admission is free. Doors: 09:30 – 17:00 ***
