video credit: Francisco Portillo
Isabella Leone is a performance maker, director and theatre designer. She is of settler descent working and living part-time in Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montréal and part-time in small towns on unceded territories across British Columbia. Her work is guided by collaboration and experimentation, playing at the intersections of dance, puppetry, video, performance art, and installation. Her current research interests revolve around site-responsive art practices, folk songs, and poetic dissonance.
Her work has been presented in OFFTA, Articule, RIPA, and Concordia’s Art Matters Festival and VAV Gallery. She has trained and interned with companies such as Big Dance Theater (NY), Theater Mitu (NY), Porte Parole (QC) and Bread and Puppet Theater (VT).
She holds a BFA in Theatre and Development from Concordia University.
Leone's work has received generous support from the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, and the Canada Council for the Arts.