Marthe Koning does Fernando Pessoa’s poems in What Pessoa taught me. With her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognizable growls to a classic recitation. The audience determines the order and the improvisation that goes with it sets the course. She never knows where she starts and where we my all end […]
Performer Timur Magomedgadzhiev explores the dramaturgy of the visual and dance intermingling An abstract idea – about figures and archetypes – forms the basis for the script. Through improvisation, the (audio)visual and the physical, he builds narratives. An exploration of emotional space, voice, movement and freedom in his artistic practice. Shared Practices. A residency in […]
Tamayo Okano focuses on the role of caregiver and asks questions about femininity. In doing so, she wants to listen and use women’s voices as guides. To dive into the depths and find ways to care together. An attempt to find the self where no one is looking. A state of “being” far away from […]
Tamayo Okano, Lila Magnin, Timur Magomedgadzhiev and Marthe Koning will start Sharing Practice, a residency in March in collaboration with MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, Rataplan, Corso, detheatermaker and Monty. Starting March 13, these creators will be given resources to explore new artistic paths. To focus on experimentation and research and not on the final product. To […]
#WIPCOOP PLAYS prospect day, in collaboration with Thassos and Rataplan. For the 6th year in a row, Mestizo Arts Platform is partnering with Thassos to help support the distribution of #WIPCOOP – performances. We showed showcases of the 2 WIPCOOPPLAYS that Thassos is bringing in its offerings (VLAMINGO – Nela Deleu THE CHANCE TO FIND […]
Işıl Biçakçi was born and raised in Istanbul.
She earned a degree in Computer Science and realized that coding and programming was not the profession she dreamed of.
She completed an acting course at the Müjdat Gezen Theatre Academy and a course in Contemporary Dance at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in Istanbul.
Even during her training, her choreographies proved to contain clarity, a subtle dose of irony and a fine sense of humor, which remains recognizable in her later choreographies.
WIPCOOP landed in Antwerp for the 14th time ! Enjoy this visual report by photographer Karolina Maruszak. And remember in advance the names of the artists you dra sure to hear more from: Ivan Rodrigues Farinha & Denzel Bruckenburg, Louai Hashem, Saif Salloomi & Mustafa Aldoujaily, Paula Paulowska, Basim Akasha & Nasser Mardnly, Alex Deijman […]
David Labi is a London-born storyteller.
He has lived in Buenos Aires, Tokyo, Berlin and now in Belgium.
With his agency Good Point, he helps NGOs and cause-driven campaigns reach people with empathy and creativity.
His artistic journey runs through workshops and experience design, magazine editing, TV news scriptwriting, filmmaking, literary translation, copywriting,… and since 2021 he has been taking his first steps toward performance theater.
In October, Nina Plantefève Castryck & Sandra Delgadillo gave audiences at Rataplan a unique look at the performances they are in the process of developing. This Wipcoop Sessions we traveled to a utopian world populated only with silhouettes in BEING HUMAN ISN’T THAT ENOUGH and Sandra immersed us in a bath of Latin American heritage […]
This fall you will discover what new stage creations about: migration, transformation, integration, stereotypes about masculinity, the human psyché to experiments with image, sound and the body … 6 artists(collectives) from Antwerp want to develop. In short, save the dates for a look at what is brewing and developing in terms of new artistic stage […]
Ivan Emanuel Rodrigues Farinha moved from Portugal to Belgium in 2007.
Since 2010 he has dedicated himself to dance, sampling different dance styles but focusing mainly on Popping.
He gives workshops at home and abroad, won several dance competitions and has been featured in productions such as: Rhythm Naturals, Red Ridin’ Hood, Paralelo, Plemons, etc.
This collective hopes to spread a positive message to other young people and to inspire those who are struggling to live by the motto: Keep trying and believe in yourself.
