Zoë Demoustier

Zoë Demoustier (b. 1995) is a Brussels-based choreographer and performer with a background in contemporary dance, Dutch mime and cultural research. The body serves as her starting point for visual performances, in which she links movement to topical and socially engaged themes to create choreographic work with diverse bodies. Since graduating in 2018 from the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam (Mime, Physical Theatre) and the Royal Institute for Theatre, Film and Sound in Brussels (Directing), she has built up a broad network in Flanders, Brussels and the Netherlands, and has worked internationally in cities such as Vienna, Montreal and Milan.

Zoë has collaborated with various companies, including Kabinet K, Alma Söderberg/Manyone, Michiel Vandevelde, Iris Bouche/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, David Weber-Krebs and Marcelo Evelin. Her major productions include Unfolding an Archive (Ultima Vez/STUK), Beating Choir/Choeur Battant (BRONKS BE & Le Carrousel CA), Nesten and Wat Was & Wat Nu (fABULEUS), and the highly acclaimed What Remains (Ultima Vez), which was selected for the 2023 Theatre Festival and received international recognition. In 2026, her latest creation, Hear The Silence (laGeste, Ultima Vez, KVS), premiered at KVS in Brussels.

Together with Oihana Azpillaga and Barbara T’Jonck, she founded the artists’ collective Platform In De Maak, which provides alternative spaces for emerging performing arts creators. In 2021, Zoë served as an ambassador for Dance Day, which resulted in the online documentary *Dansmakers van Morgen* (Dance Makers of Tomorrow), aimed at raising the profile of new dance artists. In 2022, she began a new collaboration as a choreographer with Ultima Vez and a long-term residency partnership with Ultima Vez, LAB Hasselt and 30CC Leuven to develop her work.

Zoë is a researcher at the Royal Conservatoire of Antwerp and a lecturer at the Academy of Theatre and Dance in Amsterdam and De Kunsthumaniora in Brussels. She is currently carrying out a two-year research project entitled The Flemish Wave Revisited: Towards an Intergenerational Dialogue with Dance Heritage and is working on A Wave, which is set to premiere in 2027.