Zoë Demoustier (Belgium, 1995) is a Brussels-based choreographer, performer, and researcher working with diverse bodies and generations.
Her practice departs from the body as both a starting point and an archive, connecting movement, memory, and social questions through choreographic forms.
Her work includes Unfolding an Archive and the acclaimed large-scale production What Remains (both produced by Ultima Vez).
What Remains premiered in 2023 and features performers with an age difference of 70 years. The work is currently touring nationally and internationally.
Zoë is currently creating Hear the Silence, a new production by Ultima Vez and laGeste.
Having started dancing herself at the age of eight with Kabinet K and later with fABULEUS, she brings firsthand experience of intergenerational working into both her artistic practice and teaching.
Intergenerational dance-making · Body as archive · Collective creation
A Playtank within the framework of the VRUMSTIVAL
This Playtank is an intensive, intergenerational working space led by Zoë Demoustier (Ultima Vez, Belgium).
It focuses on dance-making across generations, the body as an archive of movement, memory, and lived experience, and the transmission of movement from one body to another.
The Playtank culminates in a short open showing and marks the opening of the VRUMSTIVAL.
What is a Playtank?
A Playtank is an intensive, experimental working space – a hybrid format between a workshop, a lab, and a collective creation process.
It is inspired by the idea of a “think tank,” combined with playful research and embodied exploration.
Rather than striving for a finished product, a Playtank emphasizes process, encounter, shared practice, and learning from difference. It creates a space for exploration, exchange, and collective inquiry, where movement, imagination, and embodied knowledge are at the center.
The Playtank is open to diverse bodies, ages, and experiences and invites participants to engage in a practice that values curiosity, attentiveness, care, and collective learning.
Playtank Description
This Playtank focuses on intergenerational dance-making and builds on the artistic practice developed in Zoë Demoustier’s acclaimed production What Remains.
Central to the work is the idea of the body as an archive: a place where movements, memories, and lived experiences are stored, transformed, and passed on.
Participants explore questions such as:
- Where do we store movement?
- What do we transmit to the next generation?
- How does a movement change as it travels from one body to another?
Through movement exercises, improvisation, and moments of encounter, participants investigate individuality (eigenheid) within a shared physical practice.
Practices of carrying, supporting, and being supported invite participants to rethink roles and power relations: who carries whom, and how can these roles be reversed?
Children and young people are approached as full and equal dancers, whose physical intelligence and imagination actively shape the work.
The Playtank combines learning, exchange, and experimentation with a collective creative process that leads towards a short open showing. Rather than striving for uniformity, the process seeks strength in difference – between bodies, ages, and experiences – creating space for care, attentiveness, and mutual learning across generations.
For whom is this Playtank?
The Playtank is primarily aimed at professional dancers and performers with an established movement practice.
It is also open to dance and movement pedagogues and artists working with the body who have substantial experience in dance or embodied practice and feel confident working in an intensive, physical research setting.
Participants are expected to have a solid background in movement and dance. While the Playtank is not technique-driven, it builds on a shared physical language and an ability to engage in extended movement practice.
The Playtank brings together diverse bodies, ages, and experiences within a professional working context.
Children
Children are explicitly welcome and can participate free of charge.
The Playtank is conceived as an intergenerational space.
Practical Information
Dates & Times
- Saturday, 25 April · 14:00–19:00
- Sunday, 26 April · 14:00–19:00
- Monday, 27 April · 14:00–19:00
- Tuesday, 28 April · 12:00–17:00
- Wednesday, 29 April · 12:00–17:00
Open Showing
- Wednesday, 29 April, 17:30
- As part of the opening of the VRUMSTIVAL
- Location: Dschungel Wien
Location (working phase)
- Creative Cluster, Vienna
Prices & Registration
Adults
- Regular price: 350 €
- Early Bird (until 1 March): 250 €
- Students: 250 €
Children
- Free of charge
Registration
Registration is binding.
A deposit of 50 € is required.
The deposit is non-refundable in case of cancellation or non-attendance.
Registration takes place via an online form:
https://forms.gle/GsfQrgg2sUABacxt9
