Zoe Miller is a midwest-based choreographer, performer, and teacher originally from Athens, OH. She is a second-year MFA candidate in Dance with a focus in choreography at the University of Iowa, expected to graduate in December of 2023. Miller received her BFA in Dance Performance and Choreography, and a certificate in Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies from Ohio University in 2021. 

While at Ohio, Zoe had the honor of working with, and learning from choreographers such as Nathan Andary, Alexandra Beller, and Travis Gatling. Following her first year at Ohio, she was one of two dancers selected via audition to travel to Accra, Ghana with Dr. Zelma Badu-Younge and Dr. Paschal Yao Younge through their performing arts company, Azaguno. While there, she trained and performed with the National Dance Company of Ghana at the National Theatre of Ghana, located in Accra. Zoe remained a member of Azaguno for three years following this trip, by which she learned and performed company repertoire, and worked collaboratively to build costume materials. 

Zoe’s current research interests include the differences between [multi vs inter]-disciplinarity of theatrical design in limitless space in addition to creating scenographic spaces that change in architecture and energy as its occupants shift their roles or tasks. She is fascinated by geometrical conceptualization of performance architecture, such as the kinesthetic cuboid. Her thesis work follows constant investigations of space in dialogue with Laban Movement Analysis and Space Syntax relative to scenographic design.