Zoe Hollinshead

The American dancer Zoe Hollinshead started her dance training in Atlanta at DanceMakers and Spelman College. In May 2019, she graduated from The Juilliard School in New York where she received a Bachelor's degree. Hollinshead has worked with choreographers such as Stefanie Batten-Bland, Helen Simoneau, Kate Skarpetowska, Twyla Tharp, Roy Assaf, Nacho Duato and Alejandro Cerrudo. Since September 2019 she has been dancing with Opera Ballet Vlaanderen. Here, she has danced in the opera Rusalka directed by Alan Lucien Øyen, and in dance performances such as Noetic by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, the world premiering creation Palmos by Andonis Foniadakis, Half Life by Sharon Eyal and Mozart/Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia choreographed by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker. Since 2022, Zoe Hollinshead has been teaching workshops in the context of Black History Month.

Repertoire at OBV

• Fall (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Cantus Firmus (Jeanne Brabants)
• Mea Culpa (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• RASA [after La Bayadère] (Daniel Proietto)*
• Kaash (Akram Khan)
• Ten Duets on a Theme of Rescue (Crystal Pite)
• Noetic (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Palmos (Andonis Foniadakis)*
• Giselle (Akram Khan)
• Le Sacre du printemps (Pina Bausch)
• Half Life (Sharon Eyal)
• Mozart/Concert Arias. Un moto di gioia (Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker)
• Tempus Fugit (Johan Inger)
• Satyagraha (Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui)
• Perspectives on Bach (Niharika Senapati, Shane Urton)*

*originated the role