This fall you will discover what new stage creations about: migration, transformation, integration, stereotypes about masculinity, the human psyché to experiments with image, sound and the body … 6 artists(collectives) from Antwerp want to develop.
In short, save the dates for a look at what is brewing and developing in terms of new artistic stage creations in the Antwerp scene.
Tuesday, Nov. 8 and Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, 6 artists or collectives will each show a maximum of 30 minutes from their WORK IN PROGRESS. Afterwards, they will spend 1 hour in conversation with a company of dramaturgs, workshops, producers and programmers about the work shown and possible support. During these breaks – Artist Talks – other artists share news about their work or new projects with the audience.
- Ivan Farinha & Carlos Dias perform dance theater about perseverance with TRANS TERMINOS.
- Louai Hashem, Saif Salloomi & Mustafa Aldoujaily a collective of young artists is showing a first version of IT’S (NEVER) FUCKED UP a semi autobiographical performance about finding your place in a new society in which both positive and negative experiences are reviewed and sometimes tragic situations hide a comic element.
- Paula Kopczyk works with BELGIJSKI PROBLEEM on a tragicomic monologue about the psyché of man, about how we look at the world and how we often misinterpret it.
- Basim Akasha and Nasser Mardnly direct a performance with 3D about the challenges and inner struggles a newcomer faces as he tries to integrate into a society that at many moments seems foreign to him.
- Alex Deijmann is brooding on THE SMACK UP/REAL MEN, a dance performance that breaks open stereotypes around men and expands a spectrum of masculinity: hard and soft, pink and blue, round and prickly, cold and hot, emotional and controlled.
- For TALK ABOUT A BLACK CAT, WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT CATS, Timur Magomedhadzhiev & Jesús Ubera Biedma join forces and experiment with image, sound and the body as a methodology to express their response to the echo of reality.
The Work In Progress will take place during the day and admission is free.
[WORK IN PROGRESS] Timing (Who plays when will follow later)
08 & 09.11 @ Arenberg > 11:00 Reception / 11:30 – 12:00 WIP 1 / 12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break / 13:30 – 14:00 WIP 2 / 14:00 – 15:00 Artist Talks / 15:00 – 15:30 WIP 3
Want to read more about the artists and their Work In Progress?
[PLAYS] Nov. 18 at KVS you can catch the dazzling dance performance RELIGION? Attend KITEND! by Jenny Onya Ambukenyi on La Sape, La Société des Ambianceurs et de Personnes Élégantes. 25 novermber you can attend Anna Borodikhina’s performance – NIEMANDSLAND – in Arenberg in the evening (7 p.m.) and December 10 you can dive into Mike Pro’s Youtube laboratory during DE EIGEN LEGENDE ‘Bij De VIEZE GASTEN.
WIPCOOP = MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM + ARENBERG, KVS, KUNSTZ, CAMPO, KAAITHEATER, TONEELHUIS, RATAPLAN, MARTHA!TENTATIEF, PIECE, DE CENTRALE, DETHEATERMAKER, MADAM FORTUNA, NTGENT, KOPERGIETERY, FAMEUS, LARF! CASEMATS, PLATFORM 0090, DESINGEL, HETPALEIS, WPZIMMER, ARSENAL, CULTURE CENTER & RADAR MECHELEN, FABULEUS, OC NOVA, BEHUMAN, PIANOFABRIEK/CITYLAB, VICTORIA DELUXE, SPREEKUUR (PODIUMKUNSTEN), HET THEATERFESTIVAL, GLOBE AROMA, EASTMAN, LEZARTS URBAINS, WORKSPACEBRUSSELS, TRANSFO COLLECT, VOORUIT, BIJ DE VIEZE GASTEN, ZINNEMA, MOUSSEM, DANSPUNT, THASSOS, SOCHA, KC NONA, DE MAAN, ZOMER VAN ANTWERPEN, WALPURGIS, RAS EL HANOUT, ULTIMA VEZ, BRONKS, CC JACQUES FRANCK, IMPULSION DANCE, MONTY, DE STUDIO, STORM OP KOMKOMEN, VINCENT COMPANY, LE BAMP, GET DOWN AGENCY, CORSO, DE KOER / WITH SUPPORT FROM: FLEMISH COMMUNITY
