Brussels

Work in Progess: WIPCOOP 2025 Brussels x t e r r i t o r i o

28/11/2025
@ Brussels

MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM and KVS join hands again! In addition to the regular WIPCOOP, a third WIPCOOP-day will take place in Brussels this year during t e r r i t o r i o: a four-day festival full of lectures, show moments and three performances from the Spanish arts field, organized by KVS and […]

Eight visions. One vibrant meeting. 8 & 9.10 WIPCOOP 2025 @ 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 meet makers and their work – raw, poetic, physical, rhythmic – in the black box at KVS. Save these days for a program full of dance, poetry, music, voice and stories […]

reste(s) – Alphonse Eklou Uwantege

22/01/2026 >> 25/01/2026
@ Brussels

reste(s) is an intimate tribute to my uncle, Alphonse Kanimba, who was killed during the genocide against the Tutsi in April 1994.In this solo, I explore what we carry with us from previous generations — the stories and traumas passed down to us, whether we want them or not. reste(s) is about heritage, family ties, […]

Work in progress: WIPCOOP Brussels 2025

08/10/2025 >> 09/10/2025
@ Brussels

WIPCOOP, the Work In Progress Cooperative of MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, is taking place for the tenth time (!) in Brussels. At WIPCOOP Amina Abouelghar, Fanny Van Geel & Xavier Bascho-George & Claire Deniau, leïla alice, Lois Lumonga Brochez, Misha Demoustier and Sanae Jamaï will show thirty minutes from their Works in Progress. Expect a rich […]

WIPCOOP 2025: kick off

Hello hello hello!   It’s official – the names of the artists who will participate in WIPCOOP 2025 are known! After a long and intense selection period, we finally saw each other in person for the first time over the past few weeks. During the community moments in each city, we already got to know […]

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Kidnapped – Frames of a Contemporary Landscape – Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne

03/10/2025 >> 30/05/2026
@ Amsterdam @ Antwerp @ Brussels @ Ghent

Kidnapped – Frames of a Contemporary Landscape is a gripping and thought-provoking theatre performance that offers a sharp look at our times. What if the world we live in is, in fact, a shared political hallucination – shaped by neoliberal ideas, colonial legacies, and a system that makes us believe there is “no alternative”? Our […]

Melisa Diktas wint prijs

Raw, rhythmic and indomitable – Melisa Diktaş wins BNG Dance Award 2025

Great news from The Hague: dancer/movement and choreographer Melisa Diktaş is the winner of the BNG Dance Award 2025! On Thursday, April 17, this was announced in theater house Korzo, where the jury was deeply impressed by her solo Dat wat ontembaar is. As the winner, Melisa may tour eight Dutch theaters with her performance, […]

Review Retina Maneuver (by Wouter Hillaert)

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 […]

Review PIECES OF A MAN (by Wouter Hillaert)

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 […]

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Review KIDNAPPED (by Aïcha Mouhamou)

‘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 […]

Photo album WIPCOOP Brussels x Proximamente 2024

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 […]

L’Ombre du Figuier

03/01/2025
@ Brussels

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 […]

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