Na een passage op WIPCOOP 2023 in Campo Victoria voerden we gesprekken met Omar Cortegana over: Peke, alles waait beter met una cancion, een muzikale theatervoorstelling voor kinderen (én hun ouders).* In 2024, we saw the OPEN CALL of Op Visite pass and Omar was obviously one of the artists to whom the open call […]
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 […]
Last week a nice review of Marios Bellas and Four Walls appeared in the Theaterkrant, written by Pieter Verstraete. “Four Walls ” is a thunderous hip-hop ritual that starts from the beating of the chest by the audience and that shimmers through to the end. In a long-drawn-out scenic poem with a mix of musical […]
Anna Karenina Lambrechts dances between proximity and boundaries In her solo From Gravity to Grace, Anna Karenina Lambrechts shows that she effortlessly touches audiences with her unique dance idiom: a powerful blend of krump, contemporary dance and both traditional and contemporary Filipino dance forms. “That is the hallmark and peculiarity of this performance: how the […]
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 […]
So, what about the further development of Rubin Ajlouni’s monologue Jasser? Rubin Ajlouni shared at WIPCOOP 2023 in Kambala* a preview of the first stages of his very first creation of his own, and gave the monologue Jasser, to a text by Abdelkader Benali, a breath of fresh air. During the follow-up discussion with some […]
We are happy to host a residency of Ping-Hsiang Wang and Artistic Consultant Kang-Hua Chang at wpZimmer from March 4 to 16. Through partner Tatwerk in Berlin, Ping showed a Work In Progress of his Retina Maneuver at KVS, Brussels in WIPCOOP 2023. This led to more collaboration. In these 2 weeks he will work […]
A look back at 4 x Work In Progress in Campo Victoria! With an image report by photographer Karolina Maruszak. Dec. 13, Marios Bellas, Omar Cortegana, Lilieth Manjarres Acuña, Rodrigo Batista & Mariana Senne showed what new stage creation they are brooding on. During the breaks, Manu Moreau moderated the Artist Talks with the artists […]
A look back at a first edition Work In Progress hosted by Toneelhuis in Kambala! With an image report by photographer Victoriano Moreno. Nov. 16 & 17, Sefora, Alex H.Smith, Abigaille vungu, Tamayo Okano, Pablo Correa, Faisal Muhammadu and Jean Luc Niyonshimye, Elyne Notebaert, Rubin Ajlouini showed where they stand with the development of new […]
