Ping Hsiang Wang examines identity and gaze “Ping, in Retina Maneuver, looks at himself in the mirror ánd thus also morphs our gaze. I would almost dare call that the shortest definition of exciting art… So I sincerely hope that more people in our theatre area will still get to see this solo.” – Wouter […]
Half the art of telling a story well is a good story. The other half is not so much empathy, but just distance. Especially when that story, as with David Labi in “Pieces of a Man,” is about your own father. Or is Labi himself the man in pieces from the title? True storytelling lies […]
‘Intellectual terror’ – Aïcha Mouhamou on Kidnapped by Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. “I would like to see this much guts more often,” writes Aïcha Mouhamou in her review of Kidnapped, the performance by playwrights Rodrigo Batista and Mariana Senne. In her piece, titled Intellectual Terror, she praises Batista’s uncompromising and confrontational style: “The white […]
What an incredible week it was again at KVS during Proximamente Festival ⚡️ Proximamente celebrates Latin American culture and brings emerging talent and new voices with infectious energy to Belgium. On Thursday, Nov. 21, we hosted a WIPCOOP-day there! Ana Luz Ormazábal, Lucia Giannoni and Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne each presented 30 minutes of […]
With her debut show, L’Ombre du Figuier Souhaïla Amri wants to highlight forgotten stories. Inspired by her family (history), she explores how we remember those who came before us. Through storytelling, proverbs and symbolic objects, the play mixes true stories with invented ones, bringing our predecessors to life. The performance invites us to think about […]
There are a lot of familiar faces at our next WIPCOOP: WIPCOOP Brussels 2024 x Proximamente! A WIPCOOP-day will take place on Nov. 21 during the Proximamente Festival. The program includes works in progress and conversations with Lucía Giannoni, Ana Luz Ormazábal, Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne, Désirée 0100 & Luis Miguel Ramirez Muñoz and […]
That Works // Ǫue funcione is a participatory research project in which Lucía Giannoni works with LGBTǪ+ communities and resistance groups outside the mainstream in search of new forms of coexistence. The audience is invited to actively participate in a playful and sensory journey of discovery filled with interactive games and immersive choreographic structures. Together […]
Ana Luz Ormazábal is a director, stage researcher, playwright and academic at Universidad Valparaíso, UNIACC and Universidad Católica. She is founder and artistic director of the collective ANTIMÉTODO op, with which she performed and directed productions such as Concierto, Agnetha Kurtz Roca Method, Ópera, Al Pacinoen María Isabel. With ANTIMÉTODO, Ana Luz was invited to […]
With pride and – already – a touch of nostalgia, we look back at our ninth edition WIPCOOP Brussels, @KVS – a pictorial report by the amazing Victoriano Moreno. On Oct. 16, Julia Färber Data, Kongi Milka Mbunga, Alphonse Eklou Uwantege, Souhaïla Amri and Nastasya Kharitonova each showed 30 minutes of their performances-in-progress. The KVS […]
Pieces of a Man is a monologue by David Labi about his father. A performance that balances between storytelling and stand-up comedy. In English.
Alphonse Eklou Uwantege presents restes, a danced, spoken and whispered reflection in which it dialogues with the ghosts that haunt us. It is a ritual tribute to their uncle Alphonse Kanimba, who was killed during the Tutsi genocide in April 1994. restes is about transmission, about an inheritance that we did not choose for ourselves […]
