Isabel Ball

Isabel Ball (she/her), is a contemporary dance artist currently based out of Portland, Maine. She grew up in the Chicagoland area where she studied dance at the Chicago Academy for the Arts. Graduating with an honorary dance award she then moved forward to complete her BFA in Contemporary Dance Performance with a minor in Psychology at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Isabel studied Gaga and Batsheva repertoire while training with Addo Platform in Vancouver, BC and Cascais, Portugal. During the pandemic Isabel worked with Addo to premier a virtual international dance festival titled Our Stories. In 2020 she joined little house dance company under the direction of co-artistic directors Heather Stewart and Riley Watts. Since moving to Portland this year to work closely with little house dance, she has performed at the Maine Mechanics Hall as well as at the State of Play dance festival in San Francisco. Most recently she was commissioned to create and perform a new solo work at SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) titled “heartbreak grass”. Isabel continues to develop her interests in improvisation, choreography, collaboration, teaching, and dance on film work.