MAP x De Singel: ON OFF SPACE

Işıl Biçakçi was born and raised in Istanbul.
She earned a degree in Computer Science and realized that coding and programming was not the profession she dreamed of.
She completed an acting course at the Müjdat Gezen Theatre Academy and a course in Contemporary Dance at the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University State Conservatory in Istanbul.
Even during her training, her choreographies proved to contain clarity, a subtle dose of irony and a fine sense of humor, which remains recognizable in her later choreographies.

Zach Swagga was inspired by artists Koffi Olomide, Michael Jackson and Mc Hammer in the 1990s and became known for his show “Back to the Roots.”
He formed a band called Wake Up and started the Kobo Power movement.
He has represented Belgium in the US, Japan, France, Germany, Greece, etc.

In An Exercise in Acknowledgement: The Black Hermit, named after the play by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Lois Lumonga Brochez takes you on a personal search for Isaiah Pulania Lukanganyma, her Zambian grandfather whom she never knew. Inspired by the oral storytelling traditions of the Bemba and Kaonde cultures, she revives a lost archive through voice, […]

Sefora Sam, also known as “Sesa,” is a spoken word poet, author and performer, from Antwerp. Sesa draws inspiration from life’s small and big moments. She is known for her sincere, vulnerable and brutally honest introspection through poetry. Her superpower transforms heartbreak, insecurity and childhood trauma into love, growth and self-acceptance.