BOW Closing party: DJ’s Ewa Cojest & Peaky-Rock
We close Body of Work 2026 in style: on the dance floor!
After Mohamed Toukabri’s final performance, and a round of drinks on us at the STUK café, we give the floor to DJs Ewa Cojest & Peaky-Rock.
Hamdi Dridi, a.k.a. Peaky-Rock is a dancer and choreographer whose work moves between contemporary dance, hip-hop culture and music, while Ewa Bielak a.k.a. Ewa Cojest is a dancer and DJ whose practice connects dance, club culture and experimental performance contexts.
Sharing the spirit of Mohamed Toukabri in connecting different spaces - music and dance, creation and teaching, working in cultural institutions and taking part in the more underground battle spaces of the breaking and house dance scenes. They are the ideal duo to dance with us to the end of the festival.
Hamdi and Ewa also take part in the Talk(s) at the Crossroad(s) - Mohamed Toukabri invites on Sunday May 10. Very welcome to join and dive a bit deeper into their world before putting on your own dance shoes.
Hamdi Dridi a.k.a. Peaky Rock was born in Tunisia, North Africa in 1988; bboy since 2000, representing Tuareg Rockers (Tunisia), Pursuit Of Freshness (France), and the BVD's (Worldwide). He’s a nomadic artist thanks to the school of life—hip-hop, which he has been exploring and continuing to discover beyond the borders of our mother Earth since 2010, during various dance studies. He combines the bboy form with the “groovement” of daily life movement(s) and labor universe inspired by his late father, a house painter, and his queen mother, a cleaning lady.
As a bboy, Rocker, and worker of movement, he pays tribute to those who inspired us to become who we are today, his elders, his culture, his roots, through flowing storytelling, spicy and flavored freedom, in his favorite infinite zone, the cypher, which in Arabic is (Cipher - zero), his favorite number, the infinite zone of creation, like rare vinyl records, rhymes, and musical loops. The deeper you dig, get into it, get involved, the more you discover and learn about yourself, about sharing life and dance. Zero is the empty zone where everything infinitely beginsand ends. It is the space for expression and freedom where you can challenge yourself, shine, and help everyone around you to shine. It's not about you, it's about all of us.
Hamdi loves music that shaped his journey through cyphers, battles, and parties — from slow grooves to broken funky breaks jazzy vibes, daily life ’groovement‘ and movement. A tribute to the essence (family, roots, friends, mother earth, art). Music and dance are like cooking soul food: an invitation to bounce and body rock. #dontfakethefunk
Ewa Bielak, a.k.a. Ewa Cojest, has been active as a dancer since 2000, which influences how she plays as a DJ. The advantage of it is being on both sides: “I feel what moves me to dance and I serve that to people.” Ewa is schooled mainly in house and hip-hop dance, a lover of the footwork and styles connected to this movement, and a club and house culture follower. Her sets are a celebration of house music and its ability to transcend. Ewa Cojest reveals an adventurous, energetic, and spiritual style of playing quality music from funk, disco to house. Exposure to a wide range of experiences shaped her special musical viewpoint, following the unique music key role which inspires bodies to move, dance, sweat and be together. She takes people on a journey bringing different types of energy to travel through sounds, rhythms, vocals, times, beats, feelings, drums, and pulses. Sound is a reflection of her background and life experiences. Born and raised in Poland where Ewa brought the vibe of dance/club community by organisation of meetings, jams, parties and workshops.
