This was WIPCOOP Ghent 2025 ⚡️⚡️⚡️ Last week, the time had come… the very last WIPCOOP of the season(sad!). This closing edition took place at CAMPO victoria, where Shivadas De Schrijver, Hannah Jamin Zaouad, Aday Morales and Aminata Soumaré shared their works in progress with us. The works were very diverse–poetic, vulnerable, theatrical, powerful–but they […]
Dec. 4 during WIPCOOP Gent at CAMPO Victoria, Aday Morales, Aminata Soumaré, Shivadas De Schrijver and Hannah Jamin Zaouad will each show a Work in Progress of up to 30 minutes. Get ready for a day covering a wide range of themes including: relational and political power, dancing sounds and hushed rhythms, echoes of a […]
How to say “come back“? is a poetic documentary theater performance about the new, old and returning faces of the Rif (Morocco), the land of Hannah‘s ancestors. Which examines how the encroaching hospitality-industry is reshaping the region’s landscape and identity. The Rif is shown as a place-in-transit: between borders, between languages – Dutch, French, Spanish, […]
Woohooow the WIPCOOP whirlwind is just around the corner! We can hardly believe it but the first WIPCOOP of this year is already taking place in exactly one month (@KVS in BXL more info soon)! We are really looking forward to it and are incredibly excited to see the moving, funny, inspiring, … WIPs the […]
In a world where everyone has to keep up and everything is supposed to be perfect, it becomes increasingly difficult to be vulnerable. People struggling with mental challenges often go unheard or experience a high barrier to talking about them. The World of Hilair breaks the silence with a personal monologue on mental well-being, based […]
What happens when someone you put on a pedestal begins to dominate you? And what if it all explodes? So what do you carry with you – and what do you leave behind? Inspired by Shivadas’ childhood with a spiritual leader, in which devotion opened a door to manipulation, Ballast explores the impact of oppressive […]
VOI(X)E is a raw and intuïtive dance performance in which movement and sound dialogue with each other – breathing becomes groove, groove becomes voice and voice becomes rhythm. Four dancers – Aminata Soumaré, Abir Gharbi, Maïté Huizenga & Ines Mendoza – explore the fields of tension between chaos and calm, voice and body, rhythm and […]
In Mencey Loco, Aday delves into the forgotten histories of his island, Tenerife. Inspired by La Cantata del Mencey Loco, the once-censored album by Los Sabandeños, he dances the story of the last revolt of the Guanches – the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands – against Spanish colonial rule. But the struggle is not […]
We often speak of intergenerational trauma—but is there more? Why confine intergenerationality solely to trauma? If memories of pain are etched into our bodies across generations, could there also be intergenerational solace that is passed down? Can we tell stories of resilience and healing? Is one lifetime enough to become whole again? The answer is […]
In a world where everyone has to keep up and everything is supposed to be perfect, it becomes increasingly difficult to be vulnerable. People struggling with mental challenges often go unheard or experience a high barrier to talking about them. The World of Hilair breaks the silence with a personal monologue on mental well-being, based […]
WIPCOOP, the Work In Progress Cooperative of MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, returns to CAMPO victoria! At WIPCOOP, Aminata Soumaré, Shivadas De Schrijver, Hannah Jamin Zaouad and Aday Morales will show thirty minutes from their Works in Progress. Expect a rich palette of themes, media and voices: from dancing sounds and hushed rhythms to echoes of a […]
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 […]
