New voices, new vibes Oct. 22, 2025 – MINNEPOORT/30CC, Leuven After STUK and OPEK (fABULEUS), this year 30CC at the Minnepoort will open its doors to WIPCOOP – WORK IN PROGRESS by MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM. What the WIP? During WIPCOOP, both the public and the art sector have a unique opportunity to discover new work […]
Aya Sabi & Alphonse Eklou Uwantege ON #LAFS10 And an Honorable Mention for Işıl Biçakçi in Amsterdam. This fall you will meet Aya Sabi and Dounia Mahammed with their research on intergenational comfort as well as Alphonse Eklou Uwantege’s poetic reste(s) during Love at First Sight. Shown last year as a Work in Progress, soon […]
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 — come meet makers and their work – raw, poetic, physical, rhythmic – in the black box at KVS. Save these dates for a program full of dance, poetry, music, voice […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
A rushed performance about caring “In a hectic, laboriously told performance, dancer Tamayo Okano wants to tell the audience something about caring. Care (Past/Present/Future) claims to be about how different generations of women care for others and, if possible, for themselves. What we get to see revolves mostly around an undigested mother-daughter bond, in which […]
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 […]
In March, MAP moved into residency -together with artists Gökhan Kizilbuga, Farida, Joana Rossi, Saloua Hassani, Louai Hashem & Julia Färber Data- for a month at wpZimmer! After four intense and inspiring weeks, we officially closed the residency last Friday with a show moment. The artists shared their insights, texts, excerpts and images from the […]
