Rewriting: From Repertoire to Self

A maximum of 23 trainees 

• Develop one’s unique body language by incorporating technical and creative tools drawn from Dutch mime and contemporary dance. 
• Engage with the choreographic and theatrical tradition with a curious, open, and critical eye, in order to make it one’s own both physically and intellectually. 
• Renew one’s sources and resources through an exploratory approach to choreographic references.
• Engage with the complexity of performance, navigating the balance between letting go and control, precision and risk-taking, freedom and constraint, execution and creation.

• Group and individualized dance practice 
• Technical exercises, improvisation, games
• Creative exploration

Instructor

Zoë Demoustier

Zoë Demoustier is a Brussels-based choreographer and performer with a background in contemporary dance, Dutch mime, and cultural studies. The body serves as the starting point for her work, linking visual representations and movement to current and socially engaged topics to create choreographic pieces featuring diverse bodies. Known for her choreographic works centered on societal themes, Zoë collaborates with various companies, including Kabinet K, Michiel Vandevelde, Alma Söderberg/Manyone, Iris Bouche/Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, David Weber Krebs, and Marcelo Evelin. Her performances include *Unfolding an Archive* (in collaboration with STUK), BeatingChoir/Choeur Battant (BRONKS BE & Le Carrousel CA), Nesten (fABULEUS), and the highly acclaimed What Remains (Ultima Vez). She has built a broad network across Flanders, Brussels, and the Netherlands, and works internationally in cities such as Vienna, Montreal, and Milan.

In 2022, she began a new collaboration as a choreographer with Ultima Vez, continuing her commitment to blending movement, imagery, and sound across generations and artistic styles. The latest creation to emerge from this partnership, *Hear the Silence* (laGeste, Ultima Vez, KVS), has been on tour since early 2026.

Zoë is currently working on *The Wave*, a new production with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen in which she explores the choreographic legacy of the “Flemish Wave” (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, Wim Vandekeybus, Alain Platel, among others). In this work, she examines the influence of this repertoire on new generations and how references to dance heritage can be a source of joy in dance, rather than a constraint. This piece will bring together dancers from Opera Ballet Vlaanderen, young performers, a dancer with a disability from Platform K, and performers who participated in the creation of the referenced works.

Zoë is also a researcher affiliated with the Royal Conservatory of Antwerp and a professor at the Academy of Theatre and Dance – AHK in Amsterdam as well as at the Kunsthumaniora in Brussels.

• € 400 pour les stagiaires bénéficiant d’une prise en charge
• € 180 pour les stagiaires ne bénéficiant pas d’une prise en charge

• Fill out the online registration form.
• To apply for financial assistance, please submit your request no later than 6 weeks before the start of the training program by contacting the administrative office to complete your application (AFDAS, France Travail, Adami, etc.).

• Applications are reviewed on a first-come, first-served basis and based on the consistency of the applicant’s educational background if there are prerequisites.

  Your registration will be finalized once your application has been approved and your payment has been received.

• A self-assessment is conducted at the beginning and end of the training.
• A certificate of completion is issued to each participant at the end of the training.
• A questionnaire evaluating the training and what was learned is sent to the trainees after the course.

Every day from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.