Books that inspire me. To understand the world around me and meet people in new ways. This week I received inspiration in many ways from different people and am grateful that they shared their experiences with me. Tamayo Okano – Tamayo Okano is residing at C O R S O this week where, together with […]
The original vibration of the universe. The sound of creation. Vishuddha. An impression of Lila Magnifique’s residency at Monty where she takes the opportunity to host guests as musicians Junior Akwety & Oriana Ikomo exchange on the correlations between music, dance and text. Through these encounters, she also scrapes a discourse about her practice. Shared […]
A look back through the lens of Victoriano Moreno at the beginning of a first joint residency day that kicked off with ???????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????. “Hybrid” popped up as a key word and, along with “experiment,” sums up the day well. Marthe Koning reached out to us with tools to create a sound bath. And we […]
We first met her as coach of a group of young performers working on the play Connect With Your Demons by Alex Akuete (WIPCOOP Sessions 2020 – Rataplan). Gradually, we learned more about her artistic trajectory. Nina attended school at the Antwerp ballet school and later toured with contemporary dance companies. But it beckoned to […]
Dancer & choreographer Lila Magnin, as Lila Magnifique, explores the possibilities of everything that “gives life to what you hear” and vice versa. During the Shared Practices residency, she delves into new research. This time she focuses on music. In a hybrid experiment into storytelling about music and the body, she looks for connections. What […]
Marthe Koning does Fernando Pessoa’s poems in What Pessoa taught me. With her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognizable growls to a classic recitation. The audience determines the order and the improvisation that goes with it sets the course. She never knows where she starts and where we my all end […]
Performer Timur Magomedgadzhiev explores the dramaturgy of the visual and dance intermingling An abstract idea – about figures and archetypes – forms the basis for the script. Through improvisation, the (audio)visual and the physical, he builds narratives. An exploration of emotional space, voice, movement and freedom in his artistic practice. Shared Practices. A residency in […]
Tamayo Okano focuses on the role of caregiver and asks questions about femininity. In doing so, she wants to listen and use women’s voices as guides. To dive into the depths and find ways to care together. An attempt to find the self where no one is looking. A state of “being” far away from […]
Tamayo Okano, Lila Magnin, Timur Magomedgadzhiev and Marthe Koning will start Sharing Practice, a residency in March in collaboration with MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM, Rataplan, Corso, detheatermaker and Monty. Starting March 13, these creators will be given resources to explore new artistic paths. To focus on experimentation and research and not on the final product. To […]
#WIPCOOP PLAYS prospect day, in collaboration with Thassos and Rataplan. For the 6th year in a row, Mestizo Arts Platform is partnering with Thassos to help support the distribution of #WIPCOOP – performances. We showed showcases of the 2 WIPCOOPPLAYS that Thassos is bringing in its offerings (VLAMINGO – Nela Deleu THE CHANCE TO FIND […]
This weekend Alex Akuete, Sandra Delgadillo, Louai Hashem & Saif Salloomi aka theater collective BLEEZZ were selected for ANTWERP BIJOU, in Arenberg. Along with a host of other Antwerp creators, they had a chance to return home with a jury or audience award. On Saturday, Louai Hashem Saif Salloomi were declared winners of the jury […]
What a day! WIPCOOP Ghent was a day full of smart, enchanting, energetic, urgent, humorous, moving, melancholic, mysterious and poetic #workinprogress at NTGent Minnemeers. Enjoy this visual report by photographer Victoriano Moreno. And remember the names of the artists who shared their Work In Progress with the audience: Işıl Derya Bıçakçı, Anne Kuit, David Labi […]
