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Sanae Jamaï – Il était un foie

21/03/2026

@ Brussels

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 […]

WIPCOOP 2026: open call

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 […]

Bye bye 2025 – up next: 2026

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 […]

The red line

During the past WIPCOOP days, we drew a red line through four cities. Brussels, Leuven, Antwerp and Ghent colored equally red. We invited the audience to literally help draw the red line. Each city built on what the previous one had started, growing the line from one meter to dozens of meters. The red line […]

t e r r i t o r i o 2025

During t e r r i t o r i o last week, we briefly imagined ourselves in Spain. The sun seemed to be shining just a little brighter, Lakensestraat smelled like savory tortilla and the rolling r’s were… rolling. t e r r i t o r i o searches for artistic surprises outside […]

A liquid community of imaginers in the In Betweens

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 […]

Photo album WIPCOOP BXL 2025

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. […]

Eight visions. One vibrant meeting. WIPCOOP BXL in KVS.

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 […]

What after the 2023 international WIPCOOP edition?

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 […]

Misha Demoustier

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 […]

Amina Abouelghar

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 […]

leïla alice

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 […]