Photo by Zachary Frazee
Zoe Walders is dancer and choreographer based in College Park, Maryland. Originally from Rochester, NY, she received her BA in Dance from SUNY Potsdam and is currently an MFA Dance candidate at the University of Maryland. Over the past few years, she has been a performing artist with Frazee Feet Dance, Create A Space NOW, Grassroots Dance, and PUSH Physical Theater. She was the recipient of the 2023 Dance Force New York State Choreographer’s Initiative grant and presented her research at the NYS Dance Force annual summit in Ithaca, NY. In 2022, Zoe co-presented her second evening length show, Jumpsuit Suite with Zachary Frazee as part of the 2022 Rochester Key Bank Fringe Festival. Other recent choreography and performance credits include returning to her alma mater, SUNY Potsdam, as a guest choreographer, presenting her new work Everything is Just a Little Bit Wrong, at Gibney Dance Center in New York City as part of the Doug Varone Devices Choreographic Intensive, Mariah Maloney’s The Forest is Behind You, her first evening-length show Wild Gestures in the 2021 Rochester KeyBank Fringe Festival, Frazee Feet Dance’s In Process of Being and SHIFT, the 2020 Rochester Vision of Sound Festival, and The Wake Forest Dance Festival. In addition to her movement and choreographic projects, Zoe is the Operations Associate for Urban Bush Women and is a freelance musician.