Reflectie van Enrica Camporesi na twee dagen vol ontmoetingen en inspiratie During the kick-off of WIPCOOP 2025 at KVS on Oct. 8 and 9, Enrica Camporesi, together with the audience, explored the In-Between Space – or the In Betweens. That in-between space is a place – of encounters, stories and inspiration – that MAP will […]
What a stunner of an edition: WIPCOOP Brussels 2025!Impressive work and sparkling, fresh ideas were shared, first steps in the artists’ makership We were taken into the universes that the artists want to further explore, deepen, develop. In between the presentations, people talked, drew, networked, caught up on emails ;-), slurped soup and devoured cookies. […]
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 […]
The 2023 edition of WIPCOOP brought together an international company of promising artists. What happened to their work after that? We look back at the trajectories of Melisa Diktaş (Amsterdam), Eli Mathieu-Bustos (Brussels) and Ping-Hsiang Wang (Berlin), and how their careers continued to grow after WIPCOOP. Melisa Diktaş is a dancer and maker who develops […]
We move through the world next to one another — bodies in transit, brushing past each other in shared space — each of us carrying invisible loads. And yet, we rarely pause to witness or acknowledge the internal states of those around us. We avoid. We protect ourselves. We retreat into the self. But what […]
Birds Cries is a dance performance that begins with the desire to collaborate—with other bodies and other rhythms. Using familiar concepts of rhythmic systems, Amina explores how rhythmic patterns guide and control the body, evoke memories, and shape behavior. Together with other dancers on stage, she creates a new soundscape that reinterprets old sounds, unravels […]
In Lilo Soleil, leïla alice creates a sensory universe in which poetry, music, makeup and scenography merge into an intimate ritual. Through their alter ego Lilo Soleil – a mermaid who speaks through color and sound – they explore the reconciliation of multiple identities. The body becomes a canvas, the voice an archive, and the […]
il était un foie. 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 […]
In An Exercise in Acknowledgement: The Black Hermit, named after the play by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Lois Lumonga Brochez takes you on a personal search for Isaiah Pulania Lukanganyma, her Zambian grandfather whom she never knew. Inspired by the oral storytelling traditions of the Bemba and Kaonde cultures, she revives a lost archive through voice, […]
One Look is a multidisciplinary performance where dance (hip-hop, krump, tricking ánd flamenco influences), voice and classical piano enter into dialogue. The gaze is central: as the interface between people, as a window into each other’s worlds, as a mirror of what we sometimes prefer to hide … In a playful exchange of each other’s […]
Trilogy of Satiety: Part 1 – The Rediscovery of the Future – Oracular Practices In the first chapter of her Trilogy of Satiety, Aline Olmos Steler seeks oracular insights in a place we rarely look: vaginal discharge. Not to shock, but as an act of recapture. Where others find meaning in coffee grounds, stars or […]
Speech Lapse: Exhibition No. 4 was created in response to the “Woman – Life – Freedom” uprising that began in Iran in September 2022. The project tracks the written aftershocks of protest: diary excerpts, coded chat logs, notes at the edge of receipts, time-coded transcripts of spoken texts. Every document carries risk and offers resistance […]
