Zoe Mei Glise (she/her) is a movement-based artist located in Milwaukee, WI. She is Danceworks’ Development and Partnerships Artistic Coordinator and dances professionally with Danceworks Performance MKE, Wild Space Dance Company, and Gina Laurenzi Dance Project. Zoe earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Dance Performance and Choreography from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

 

Previously, Zoe worked 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 Danse (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), FLOCK (Chicago, IL), 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.