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Zoe Gay

Zoe is a free-lance professional contemporary dancer, choreographer and producer reining from Adelaide, Australia. Zoe has a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance) from Adelaide College of the Arts and Flinders University. In 2019 she co-founded Motus Collective, a contemporary collective aimed at facilitating interdisciplinary collaborations and establishing performance opportunities for Adelaide based artists. The collective began by running improvisation classes weekly, then continued to conduct residencies at Australian Dance Theatre, The Mill and performed in the VitalStatistix Adhocracy Program. Motus Collective collaborated with Tom Borgas and Amber Cronin in ‘HyperObject’, performed in Arthur Art Bar’s ‘SA LA LA LAND’, worked with Fine Print Magazine in their live response to ‘If the future is to be worth anything’, performed Hiromi Tango’s ‘Brain Flower’, and collaborated with eDuard Helmbold in ‘Elegy of The Pale Lion’ for Adhocracy 2021. Motus Collective were Share House residents at Carclew where they produced ‘Open House’, a platform for emerging artists to create and perform, and premiered ‘White Rhino’ in the Adelaide Fringe, performing to sold out audiences and winning the ‘Best Emerging Artist’ award. Zoe then became a Carclew Emerging Creative Producer, premiered her work ‘The Leftovers’ at the Adelaide Fringe in 2022 & 2023, and became an Executive and Creative Producer Assistant with Restless Dance Theatre. Zoe now resides in Bergen, Norway.