Isabella Soupart is a Belgian choreographer, dancer, director, and visual artist of Polish-Ukrainian descent, based in Brussels. She gained public recognition through her roles in the films “Le Fils” by the Dardenne brothers and “Madonnen” by Maria Speth, where she starred alongside Olivier Gourmet and Sandra Hüller (“Anatomie d’une chute”).

From the beginning of her career, Isabella Soupart has established herself as an innovative and transdisciplinary artist, collaborating with visual artists, musicians, composers, and architects. Her artistic approach explores choreography as a means to merge various media such as sound, voice, image, space, light, movement, and visual arts. Whether through live performance, filmmaking, performance art, musical theatre, or opera, choreographic creation remains central to her work.

Her productions are presented on national and international stages and at numerous festivals. She is often invited to exhibit her work in museums, where she develops new dance formats in connection with research on sound, space, light, and architecture.

She has collaborated with numerous artists, including visual artists Michel François and Jonathan Sullam, video artist Kurt d’Haeseleer, choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, light designer Jim Clayburgh, the MP4 Quartet, photographer Danny Willems, the Belgian-Swedish music duo Victoria+Jean, musician Rubén Martinez Orio (Ictus), the musical duo Jacob Hus and Arto Van Roey, composer David Achenberg, composer and pianist Walter Hus, composer and sound designer Thomas Turine, Swedish sound designer Silas Bieri, pianist and producer Guy Vandromme, musical dramaturge and pianist Alain Franco, and composer-drummer and producer Antoine Pierre.

Her productions have been showcased on national and international stages and at numerous festivals, including Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels), Koninklijke Vlaamse Schouwburg (KVS), Festival Ars Musica, Festival d’Avignon IN, Red Cat Theater (Los Angeles), Teatro Cánovas (Málaga), Teatro José Tamayo (Granada), Teatre Lliure (Barcelona), Festival International de Carthage (Tunis), Festival Sommerszene (Salzburg), Burgtheater (Vienna), Eaux-Vives (Geneva), Salzlager (Innsbruck), Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Lieu Unique (Nantes), Stoa (Helsinki), Maison de la Danse (Lyon), Le Cuvier (Bordeaux), Théâtre National de Chaillot (Paris), Lantaren Venster (Rotterdam), Théâtre de la Bastille (Paris), Centro Cultural de Belém (Lisbon), Tanzhaus (Düsseldorf), La Ferme du Buisson (Paris), MRBAB Fine Arts Museum (Brussels), MAD Museum (Brussels), Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Charleroi danse, Concertgebouw de Bruges, 14th Contemporary Art Biennale (Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana), Festival Artonov, and Fondation blan.

Isabella Soupart has received numerous accolades, including the SACD Choreography Award – Belgium 2019. She has also been nominated for the Total Theater Awards – Edinburgh 2019, the Prix Maeterlinck de la Critique – Brussels 2019, and was named Talent Female Artist of the Year by White & Case in 2019. In 2007, she was honored by The Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative in New York, where she met her mentor Julie Taymor.