Zoë Demoustier / Ultima Vez

Name: Zoë Demoustier / Ultima Vez — What Remains
Start: 2025-12-05T20:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-12-05T22:00:00+01:00
Location: De Vooruit

What Remains

VIERNULVIER & Kopergietery

Fri 05.12

20:00 - 22:00

De Vooruit, Gent

THEATERZAAL

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Two generations embody the beauty of loss

What Remains is a story about beginning and ending, about standing at the very end of a lifeline, at the point where you start as a child or where you end as an older one. The poetry of changing as a person, making memories and the fear of losing them. In What Remains, Zoë Demoustier brings two generations together on stage: children who start life and older dancers who leave life behind. The outcome of that encounter is a physical and dancing game between old and young that exposes the perishable body. In a language of movement in which roles can be reversed, both are strong in their vulnerability. A child carries his grandparent; an elderly dancer regains his childlike freedom; Who takes care of whom? They find each other in the similarities and differences. The older generation consists of professional dancers. These dancers embody the forgotten body, the body that is no longer visible on stage. Who are those people, that forgotten group? Are they forced to stop because of a changed body?

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Part of

2025 - 26 | PODIUM

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Press on 'What Remains'

“Yet What Remains is about much more than the impact of getting older. Undercurrent is the cycle of life and death, of passing on, saying goodbye and starting again.”
— De Standaard

“Building memories and fear of suffocating in past and present loss merge in this choreography of moving and still compositions. There is stillness, vulnerability, comfort, resignation. It all carries beauty.”
— Theaterkrant

“What happens on stage is moving and energetic, alienating and intimate, subdued and exuberant, ritualistic and unruly, theatrical but without grand gestures. As a spectator, you see in that hour and a half just as much a hushed sculpture in clair-obscure as a thundering jam session of bouncing bodies.”
— BRUZZ

“Alongside delay and stillness, she fully opts for a future we shape together. Full of emotion, What Remains exudes these contradictions. In contrast, the viewer is defenceless. It is an attempt to grasp the shadow that loss casts over life itself, and at the same time a request to look straight into the now.”
— Etcetera

Zoom in

Choreography: Zoë Demoustier - Performers: Misha Demoustier, Jef Stevens, Karin Vyncke, Irene Schaltegger, Alice Monserez, Chizzy Chinaedu, Charlotte Maes, Kyora Kaiwa Stoffer, Luwe Van Gucht & Charlie Van Cauwenberghe - Dramaturgy: Danielle van Vree - Artistic Advice: Annemie Boonen, Misha Demoustier, Oihana Azpillaga & Wim Vandekeybus - Costumes & Research: Annemie Boonen - Music & Sound Design: Misha Demoustier & Rint Mennes - Music Research: Misha Demoustier & Sebastiaan Wets - Sound Management on Tour: Rint Mennes - Light & Set Design: Thomas Glorieux - Light Advice: Varja Klosse - Light on Tour: Thomas Glorieux / Benjamin Verbrugge - Interviews: Yelena Schmitz - Production: Ultima Vez - Co-production: STUK Leuven, BRONKS Theater for Young Audiences, HET LAB Hasselt, Krokusfestival Hasselt - Assistance: Emma Hons, Karlijn Vanoppen, Sarah Migairou Feldman, Dauwke Van Kerckhoven, Chisom Lois Onyebueke Chinaedu - With the support of: the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Casa Kafka Pictures Tax Shelter funded by Belfius. Ultima Vez is supported by the Flemish Community and the Flemish Community Commission of the Brussels-Capital Region - Thanks to: Kristien De Coster, Inne Goris, Kaïs Ung, Albertine Guilloteau Croizé, Hélène De Vrieze, Tom Herbots, Lana Van Dierdonck, Lore Stessel, Aaron Wouters & Klaartje Lambrechts

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