Zoe Mei Glise (she/her) is a movement-based artist born in China and located in Milwaukee, WI. She is Danceworks’ Development and Partnerships Artistic Coordinator and dances professionally with Danceworks Performance MKE (DPMKE), Wild Space Dance Company, and Gina Laurenzi Dance Project (GLDP). Zoe earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where she worked with artists including Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Parijat Desai, Emma Draves, Yumelia Garcia, Maria Gillespie, Gina Laurenzi, Marina Magalhães, Caitlin Mahon, Tatiana Malinkine, Dan Schuchart, Christal Wagner, and Joe Goode, with whom she created “Real Words”, a dance film supported by an NEA grant that was presented at the North Central American College Dance Association (ACDA).

 

Previously, Zoe has danced and performed professionally with Madison Contemporary Dance, Nova Linea Contemporary Dance, and Studio K Flamenco, and has presented her individual works nationally and internationally at the Emergence Festival (Chicago, IL), Dance for Hope MKE (Milwaukee, WI), National Conference on Undergraduate Research (Bozeman, MT), Get It Out There (Milwaukee, WI), and at the Centre National de la Dance (Paris, France) as part of the Camping Residency. 

 

Zoe has furthered her training through intensives with Joffrey Ballet (New York, NY), Wasatch Contemporary Dance (Provo, UT), Bandaloop (San Francisco, CA), Stewart/Owen Dance (Asheville, NC), Nova Linea Contemporary Dance (Waukesha, WI), and the Minnesota Conservatory for the Arts (Winona, MN). In fall of 2025, she was one of four artists selected to create work for the Wisconsin Dance Council’s Emerging Artist Mentorship Program. Most notably, in September 2024, Zoe premiered her debut evening-length work, “Uncommon Ground”, which blended her two passions--dance and rock climbing.