Project Description

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 multimedia dance productions that sometimes integrate articulate dancing on stilts. She is the artistic director of Cristina Isabelle Dance Company and director of HighJinks Productions. Kristina has performed nationally and internationally, most recently performing her work stilt dance work The Moving Target at Deventer Op Stelten Festival in The Netherlands. She has performed with Bebe Miller, Stephen Petronio, Jordan Fuchs, Bob Eisen, Earth Circus Productions, and John Jasperse. Ms. Isabelle was one of the Chicago Dance makers 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. In Poland her work was shown at the Bytom International Dance Festival. Along side her professional work, Isabelle has also taught dance, composed works, and constructed dance-related events for Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard Street, Visceral, Outer Space and Aloft Circus Arts.