MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM was invited to join“Do You Speak Dance?” This interview series by dancehousebrussels explores the following questions: How do artistic practices shape Brussels? And what do artists need to grow and make a difference in the city? MAP brought together Doris Bokongo Nkumu, Julia Färber Data, and Lila Magnin to discuss their dance […]
WIPCOOP BXL presents six “Work In Progress” presentations. On the menu: ** Izo Pinay shifts the religious discourse into a space of radical, inclusive, and embodied love. In *Thank God I’m Not Straight*, seemingly irreconcilable identities as a queer person and a Catholic, reconcile, when Izo reappropriates biblical texts. ** With *Secret Songs*, Ivan Kevork […]
Like every Próximamente edition, MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM will come up with a day program in collaboration with KVS. This time, together with and at Ultima Vez. Read more about Próximamente Festival at the bottom of the page! Julia Färber Data and Sharon Mercado Nogales draw on their Latin American cultural heritage to explore how rhythms, […]
FATHERLAND tells a coming-of-age story about children from the diaspora. Through letters to one another (and to themselves) Myra and Yasmine share experiences from their journeys to Morocco, a place that carries roots of both makers. They long to belong, but as personal memories become entangled with migration histories, research and current events, their perspective […]
How does the body react to the un-silencing of a language you don’t speak, but one that flows through your veins? In to swallow my grandmother’s tongue luz attempts to “swallow” their grandmother’s language—Cape Verdean Creole. A gesture driven by a hunger for an emotional and embodied connection to a language that was never taught […]
Metronorm is a choreographic and visual immersion in the heart of the urban space. Through the lens of the subway, two dancers embody the forced coexistence of shared rout(in)es and paths that collide with one another. Blending cinematic aesthetics with industrial rhythms, the piece explores the social ties that influence our daily commutes. How do […]
What does it mean to love God when His word has been twisted to justify violence against your body and identity? This question is the starting point in Izo’s autobiographical work Thank God I’m not straight . Through dance, speaking plainly, and participatory performance, he reconciles his “incompatible identities” as a queer person and a […]
Ivan Kevork Azazian, Gökhan Kizilbuga, and Marios Bellas explore, given their backgrounds in Palestine/Armenia, Kurdistan, and Greece, what they share: their history within the Ottoman Empire, the brotherhood of their ancestors, the oppression by the Turkish Republic, the pain that followed, and the sounds that emerged from it all: rhythms that chronicle the genocides. Through […]
“While immigration is often seen as a geographical movement, we want to approach it in a broader sense. Every stage of life is a form of migration: being born, growing up, loving, parting ways, rebuilding oneself. We are constantly crossing visible and invisible boundaries that transform our identity and leave their mark on us. Immigration […]
“The devil is everything that is not God, everything that agitates the body: blues, llanero singing, rock, jazz, yaraví, bomba, cumbia, reggaeton, salsa – everything that is unchained, black and Indian, cholo, that which awakens the subterranean melody, that is, what is seditious within […] therein lies the new listening that will free our bodies […]
Tuesday we welcomed Benedetta Parisi —all the way from Turin— in (hot hot hot) Antwerp to share some snippets of her WIP project. We got to know this enthusiastic artist at Proximamente. When she told us she wanted to do a residency in Belgium, we felt it was very meaningful and so we were happy […]
Last week we were invited to spend a lovely day at Metarage in Brussels. We were joined by the whole Metarage team, Karen from Ultima Vez, Thomas from le BAMP and a cool bunch of artists associated with Metarage… We talked about “collaboration” in the performing arts field: our needs & desires, as artists, as […]
