In her one-woman show, Sanae Jamaï takes you on an intimate journey through her inner world, where illness is not an enemy, but a life partner. Through word and dance, she gives voice to silence, loneliness and the strength that lies in vulnerability. With humor and honesty, she breaks taboos around disability and invites reflection […]
An intimate text reading that makes mental vulnerability not explainable, but palpable. At Ik leef met 6A7 Paula Paulowska invites you into an absurd, surreal and sometimes confrontational inner world of a woman during an episode. The monologue starts from personal experience with bipolar disorder and invites you to experience mental vulnerability, without labels or […]
Meet the artists currently in residence with us, detheatermaker, c o r s o, Monty and Rataplan! Read more about the residency 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 here. Meet Sesa 👋 artist in residence: 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓡𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓪𝓻𝓬𝓱, 𝓢𝓱𝓪𝓻𝓮𝓭 𝓟𝓻𝓪𝓬𝓽𝓲𝓬𝓮𝓼 Sesa (short for Sefora Sam) is a poet and writer turned performer —because her poems simply demand to […]
Last Friday, we kicked off the fourth edition of our annual residency Shared Research, Shared Practices! 🗯️ 3 weeks – 3 artists – 3 houses 🗯️ For three weeks, Nata Mandaria, Sesa and Mira Maria Studer dive into their projects: writing, playing, dancing, singing, interviewing… Every Friday they meet to share insights and ideas. They […]
The last week at wpZimmer is officially over! And so is our time with Enrica Camporesi, who kept us and the artists in residence company throughout January. We also organized WIPCOOP x Pro x Pro, our day for programmers ánd artists. Read everything and more below 🙂 🫧 wpZimmer x MAP x Enrica Camporesi We […]
A casting becomes a mirror of a larger political narrative, in which Palestine also seems to be auditioning for the right to exist. On Feb. 2, Rubin Ajlouni premiered his first show Rubin. Rubin started his trajectory with MAP during WIPCOOP 2023. Then he delivered a monologue Jasser, a text by Abdelkader Benali. After WIPCOOP, […]
The call for artists for WIPCOOP 2026 has officially open! Before you apply, read a little more about WIPCOOP here. And be sure to check out our mini-documentary WIPCOOP 2020 for a nice overview of how we work :-). HOW WE SELECT For whom? WIPCOOP focuses primarily on performing artists based in Brussels and Flanders […]
Our third week at wpZimmer is over! It was a very busy week, but also a very fun and inspiring one. We welcomed Emiliano Cedillo & Olga Groppo, Nela Deleu and Israel Ngashi with Pippa and Kelcey. We also organized a sharing moment with all the artists who were part of this residency. Read all […]
Hoe zeg je “kom terug”? (How to say “come back“?) is a poetic documentary theater performance about the new, the old and the returning faces of the Rif (Morocco), the land of Hannah‘s ancestors. Which examines how the encroaching hospitality-industry is reshaping the region’s landscape and identity. The Rif is shown as a place-in-transit: between […]
Week 2 at wpZimmer is over! This week we were joined by Melisa Diktaş and Vianney Adriaens. About Melisa We will remember the second week of our residency at wpZimmer by the beating drums in the background. Melisa Diktaş (WIPCOOP 2023) joined us with her dahul (drums) to immerse herself into her research on the […]
Week 1 in wpZimmer is over! In the first week, Rubin Ajlouni (two days) and Nazanin Bahrami with Aria Baghestani (a full week) joined us in the cozy wpZimmer. It was a great week, a productive week, with good food, snow and lots of familiar faces. With the heaviness of these times, a welcome moment […]
After an amazing WIPCOOP series, we feel the party mood starting to take over. But not before looking back on the past year – and sharing with you the first steps towards 2026. Because January and February are all about residencies: MaPZimmer and Shared Research, Shared Practices. Retrospective: 2025 2025 was another top-notch edition, with […]
