Kristina Isabelle

Kristina Isabelle is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher who is passionate about exploring the physicality of the body and its story-telling potential. She creates multi-media dance productions that sometimes integrate articulated dancing on stilts. She is the artistic director of Kristina Isabelle Dance Company. Kristina Isabelle Dance has performed nationally and internationally, most recently performing the stilt dance work "Levels & Lines: The Moving Target" at Deventer Op Stelten Festival in The Netherlands.

Isabelle earned her BFA in dance from The Juilliard School and an MFA in dance and choreography from The Ohio State University.  She has performed with Bebe Miller, Stephen Petronio, Jordan Fuchs, Bob Eisen, and Earth Circus Productions. 

She was one of the Chicago Dancemakers Forum Lab Artists for 2012-2013 and a Pentacle Help Desk / Chicago artist 2013.  Since moving to Chicago in 2011, she has shown her work at Links Hall, the MCA, and the Ruth Page Dance Center. Her work has also been produced in New York, San Francisco, Columbus, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis, Fort Worth, England, Ireland and Poland at the Bytom International Dance Festival. 

Alongside her professional work, Isabelle has also spent the last decade teaching dance, composing works, and constructing dance-related events for various universities, studios, and organizations, including Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street, Visceral, OuterSpace and Aloft Circus Arts. She is currently the Program Manager for the Chicago Teen Dance Festival that will premiere at the Harris Theater August 29, 2015.