Enter Pablo Correa’s universe as a writer, creator and player. In Monosapiens, Correa treats the audience, in a simple scenography, to 2 monologues plus the energetic power of the narrator.
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A photo report, by Victoriano Moreno. In collaboration with Rataplan, KVS, Nau Ivanow, Walpurgis, Ultima Vez, Monty, C o r s o and detheatermaker and with the support of Bovenlokaal Cultuurproject Kunstendecreet Vlaanderen, Stad Antwerpen and Arenberg, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM was able to organize 3 years of residencies with Enrica Camporesi, Rona Kennedy, Ester Nadal, […]
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 […]
It is comfortable to share research with others and get feedback early in this residency. Sharing and connecting helps take me to the next level. – Tamayo Okano – Tamayo Okano resides at Rataplan from March 21 to 24, where she and actress Lotte Heijtenis will examine the role of caregiver and the relationships between […]
Marthe Koning performs the poems of Fernando Pessoa in What Pessoa taught me. During this residency, she tests how to connect a certain continuity and flow with new things. From improvisation she experiments with soundscapes and text. You can listen to what this sounds like in the video below. Shared Practices, Shared Research – A […]
A look at the second Monday morning research and practices exchange together. Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Marthe Koning, Lila Magnin and Tamayo Okano share how they experienced the previous week, their questions and findings before moving on to the next location to continue their research. Shared Practices, Shared Research – A residency in collaboration with Corso, detheatermaker, […]
between my sleeping and my dreaming between me and the one in me who I suppose I am a river flows without an end Marthe Koning does the poems of Fernando Pessoa in What Pessoa taught me. With her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognizable growls to a classical recitation. […]
The word “kids” promised: friends, fun games…. exactly everything that was lacking at home. Timur Magomedgadzhiev resides in Rataplan this week. He draws inspiration from Maryam Alieva’s book Not Silence. Through improvisation, video and text, he engages – together with Greet Vissers – with testimonies that break the taboo about authoritarian father figures through writing. […]
Books that inspire me. To understand the world around me and meet people in new ways. This week I received inspiration in many ways from different people and am grateful that they shared their experiences with me. Tamayo Okano – Tamayo Okano is residing at C O R S O this week where, together with […]
The original vibration of the universe. The sound of creation. Vishuddha. An impression of Lila Magnifique’s residency at Monty where she takes the opportunity to host guests as musicians Junior Akwety & Oriana Ikomo exchange on the correlations between music, dance and text. Through these encounters, she also scrapes a discourse about her practice. Shared […]
A look back through the lens of Victoriano Moreno at the beginning of a first joint residency day that kicked off with ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????. “Hybrid” popped up as a key word and, along with “experiment,” sums up the day well. Marthe Koning reached out to us with tools to create a sound bath. And we […]
