Zoe Glise is a performer, and movement-based artist born in China and currently located in Milwaukee, WI. She is currently a company member with the Gina Laurenzi Dance Project, Wild Space Dance Company, and Madison Contemporary Dance. Zoe has also worked with Danceworks Performance Company as a guest performer and was Nova Linea Contemporary Dance's first company apprentice. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Contemporary Performance and Choreography at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and worked with Daniel Burkholder, Mair Culbreth, Simone Ferro, Maria Gillespie, Dani Kuepper, Gina Laurenzi, and Dan Schuchart, training in Ballet, Modern, Contemporary, Pointe, Jazz, Improvisation, African, Composition, and more. Throughout her years at UWM, Zoe had the opportunity to work with several guest artists in performances and masterclasses including, Parijat Desai, Marina Magalhães, Emma Draves, Yumelia Garcia, Tatiana Malinkine, and more. In 2019, with the help of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) grant, Zoe had the opportunity to work with Joe Goode, collaborating with him and other students to create a dance film; which was later presented at the American College Dance Association (ACDA) in 2022.
During her time at UWM, she received multiple dance department scholarships, including the Ed Burgess Legacy Scholarship and Support for Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) grants. With her research as a SURF student, under the direction of Simone Ferro and Mair Culbreth, Zoe worked on movement research in the Milwaukee area, learning an immense amount about the Sherman Park community, minority communities, skateboarding, and rock-climbing communities, broadening her knowledge through ethnographic studies.