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Marthe Koning performs the poems of Fernando Pessoa in What Pessoa taught me. During this residency, she tests how to connect a certain continuity and flow with new things. From improvisation she experiments with soundscapes and text. You can listen to what this sounds like in the video below. Shared Practices, Shared Research – A […]

Monday mornings be like … Photo album

A look at the second Monday morning research and practices exchange together. Timur Magomedgadzhiev, Marthe Koning, Lila Magnin and Tamayo Okano share how they experienced the previous week, their questions and findings before moving on to the next location to continue their research. Shared Practices, Shared Research – A residency in collaboration with Corso, detheatermaker, […]

Between

  between my sleeping and my dreaming between me and the one in me who I suppose I am a river flows without an end Marthe Koning does the poems of Fernando Pessoa in What Pessoa taught me. With her voice and body, she interprets his poems. Ranging from unrecognizable growls to a classical recitation. […]

Photo album Let’s Talk About Creating for/with the Young – Ghent

After a first edition in Antwerp, hosted by hetpaleis, we now went to Ghent where LARF! and De Kopergietery welcomed MAP and artists from WIPCOOP for a second LET’S TALK ABOUT. Artists and cultural workers from children and youth theater sat together to meet, share practices and experiences about creating for/with a young audience. Photos: […]

Reading out loud

The word “kids” promised: friends, fun games…. exactly everything that was lacking at home. Timur Magomedgadzhiev resides in Rataplan this week. He draws inspiration from Maryam Alieva’s book Not Silence. Through improvisation, video and text, he engages – together with Greet Vissers – with testimonies that break the taboo about authoritarian father figures through writing. […]

The world around me

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 […]

Vishuddha

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 […]

Kick Off Shared Research by Sharing Practices

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 […]

BEING HUMAN ISN’T THAT ENOUGH? A dance solo by Nina Plantefève Castryck

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 […]

Introducing Lila Magnifique

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 […]

Introducing Marthe Koning

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 […]

Introducing Timur Magomedgadzhiev

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 […]

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