Isabella Soupart

Isabella Soupart is a Belgian choreographer, dancer, director, and filmmaker of Polish-Ukrainian origin, based in Brussels. She is also an actress, known to the general public from the film "The Son" by the Dardenne brothers. Isabella creates performances and visual works at the interface of several disciplines. She composes her pieces following a primarily sensory logic.

Her work revolves around choreography as a means of navigation between different media such as sound, voice, image, space, light, movement, and visual arts. And while her work takes on multiple forms, from live performance to film production, through performance, musical theater, and opera, choreographic writing is at the heart of her work.

Her productions are presented on national and international stages, as well as in numerous festivals. She is regularly invited to present her productions in museums, where she develops new dance formats combined with research on sound, space, light, and architecture.

She collaborates with numerous artists including the visual artist Michel François, the Belgian choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, the English visual artist Jonathan Sullam, the American light designer Jim Clayburgh, the MP4 Quartet, the Flemish photographer Danny Willems, the visual artist Kurt d'Haeseleer, the sound designer and composer Thomas Turine, the visual artist Sabrina Montiel-Soto, the French dancer and choreographer Bérengère Bodin, the Belgian-Swedish duo Victoria+Jean, the musician Rubén Martinez Orio (Ictus), the double bassist Shaya Feldman, the Flemish pianist and composer Walter Hus, the pianist and conductor Guy Vandromme, the Swedish sound designer Silas Bieri.

Her recent activities have led her to present her new production Stretch Time in Cuba at the 14th Havana Art Biennial (November 2021), to return to the stage as the lead actress in Enoch Arden, a play presented at the Grand Theatre in Geneva (January 2022), to present a new creation in February 2022, as part of the Slow festival (36h) at the Concertgebouw in Bruges, in (October 2022), she presented Silence a new creation as part of the Artonov 2022 festival.

She is the winner of the SACD Choreography Prize 2019 awarded by SACD-SCAM Belgium for her entire body of work.

Nominated for best show at the Total Theater Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2019 with Steve Reich Project

Nominated for best dance show at the Maeterlinck Critics' Awards 2019 for Stretch in Museum

Recognized by White & Case 2019 (New York), Female Artist of Talent of the Year

Nominated in Dramatic Art and Choreography by The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative (New York 2007)