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 […]
Quickly click through and read the review on THE CHANCE TO FIND YOURSELF, the performance in which playwrights Benno Steinegger and Jovial Mbenga give a playful insight into a theatrical friendship with many ups and downs. Already some quotes from the review: What matters in “The Chance to Find Yourself” is not what there is […]
The project originated in Benno’s mind. But the performance itself is the result of our meeting. An encounter between two artists, from different worlds, one black and the other white. One Congolese and the other Italian, both living in Brussels. We both wanted to work together and face our differences. What inspires you as an […]
WIPCOOP landed in Antwerp for the 14th time ! Enjoy this visual report by photographer Karolina Maruszak. And remember the names of the artists you will certainly hear more from: Ivan Rodrigues Farinha & Denzel Bruckenburg, Louai Hashem, Saif Salloomi & Mustafa Aldoujaily, Paula Kopczyk, Basim Akasha & Nasser Mardnly, Alex Deijman & Nathaniel Moore […]
WIPCOOP started with a BANG at KVS ! Enjoy this visual report by photographer Victoriano Moreno. And remember the names of the artists who did not leave the audience unmoved with their Work In Progress: Alex Masgutov, Emiliano Cedillo, Naïm Belhaloumi, Lorena Spindler, Eli Mathieu Bustos & Désirée Cerocién. During the breaks, the audience could […]
In October, Nina Plantefève Castryck & Sandra Delgadillo gave audiences at Rataplan a unique look at the performances they are in the process of developing. This Wipcoop Sessions we traveled to a utopian world populated only with silhouettes in BEING HUMAN ISN’T THAT ENOUGH and Sandra immersed us in a bath of Latin American heritage […]
