Vita

Isabelle joined Ballet Fantastique as a soloist in 2020 and was promoted to Principal in 2023. | featured BFan roles listed below

Isabelle, a native of Los Angeles, received her primary training at Los Angeles Ballet Academy and Walnut Hill School for the Arts. Isabelle holds a BFA in Dance Performance and minor in Business Administration from Butler University. She has attended summer intensives including Washington School of Ballet, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, Ballet Austin, Colorado Ballet, and American Ballet Theatre. Isabelle’s professional dance work includes contracts with Central Illinois Ballet (featured roles in The Nutcracker, Dracula, Romeo and Juliet, as well as originating the role of Bella in Beauty and the Beast) and three seasons with San Diego Ballet (featured roles in Javier Velasco’s Song of Songs, Que Bonito Amor, & First Time I Ever Saw Your Face, as well as performing as a lead dancer in Matt Carney’s world premiere The Silent Town). In the summer season, she has appeared as a guest artist with Sierra Nevada Ballet (The Sleeping Beauty, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Swan Lake) and ARC Dance (works by Mairka Brussel, Alex Ketley, Bruce McCormick, and Marie Chong). She has also had the pleasure to perform as Aurora in Sleeping Beauty & Sugar Plum Fairy in The Nutcracker as a guest artist across the US.

Since joining Ballet Fantastique, Izzy has starred in principal and soloist roles including Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary in Babes in Toyland, Contessa in Nevermore: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe, Stepmom in Cinderella: A Rock Opera, as well as originating the roles of the White Queen in Alice in Wonderland (2024) and the role of Vera in Ballet Fantastique's NYE world premiere ARRIVALS: RIO.

Isabelle is passionate about grassroots marketing, social media and teaching. She has served as Development Director for Central Illinois Ballet and as Community Engagement Coordinator for San Diego Ballet, and supports Ballet Fantastique’s marketing and events teams.

“Generous…joy and passion.”

—SAN DIEGO TABLE TO STAGE

Quick Facts

Hometown:
Los Angeles, CA

Ballet Fantastique: 
Since 2020, favorite role Estrella, the Lonesome Diva in Cirque de la Lune

Favorites: 
Performing, hiking, traveling, chocolate 

PHOTOS OF IZZY: GREG BURNS, BOB WILLIAMS, GUSTAVO RAMIREZ, RAYMOND SILOS

Featured Ballet Fantastique roles

WITH BALLET FANTASTIQUE, IZZY HAS PERFORMED ACCLAIMED SOLOIST ROLES at home + on tour, INCLUDING:

*ORIGINATED ROLE

• Irene Pöet, The Detective* in Murder at the Ballet (with Juan Luqui, 2024 premiere + tour)

• The White Queen* in Alice in Wonderland: Remix (2024 performances + tour)

• Stepmom in Cinderella: The Rock Opera (with Shelley & Cal & the Agents of Unity, 2024)

• Mary, Mary Quite Contrary in Babes in Toyland (2023)

• Contessa in Nevermore: Stories of Edgar Allan Poe (with Liz Dorman, 2023)

• Lady Mirabel* in Robin Hood & Maid Marian (with Nottingham, premiere 2023)

• Faustina Bordoni, the great Italian mezza-soprano in (Misadventures of) Casanova (with Oregon Mozart Players, 2023)

• Toymaker, Cowgirl, and Little Red Riding Hood* in Babes in Toyland (with Swing Shift Jazz Orchestra, 2022 performances + tour)

• Christmas Present in BFan's Emmy®-nominated feature film American Christmas Carol: A Ballet Movie (2020)

• Golden Girl in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (with Dréos + Gerry Rempel Ensemble, 2022 performances + tour)

• Rose/The Spectre of the Rose in Beauty & the Beast (with Trio Voronezh, 2022 performances + tour)

• Vera, Office Manager of Luna Mística Travel Agency (Rio)* in ARRIVALS: RIO (with Juan Luqui + Bossanaire, premiere 2021)

• Estrella, Lonesome Diva in Cirque de la Lune (with Baroque Betty, Mood Area 52 + Blue Carnivàle, 2022)

• Ballet in the Vineyard (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• Ballet in the Park (2021)

• Ballet on the Green (2020, 2022)

TAKE CLASS FROM IZZY

Isabelle is a faculty member of The Academy of Ballet Fantastique. She has taught all levels of ballet as well as pointe, variations, pas de duex, stretching/conditioning, and yoga. Izzy received her formal instruction of ballet teaching from the pedagogy program at Butler University. Isabelle is also certified for Progressing Ballet Technique. Isabelle strives to bring a fun, easy-going attitude to her adult classes and strives to make ballet inclusive to dancers of all ages.