Isabella "Bella" Soo-Hoo (she/her) is a freelance dancer, teacher, and Pilates instructor based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Bella is a current dance artist with Pearl Street Dance Collective and has performed and collaborated with Dragons Dance and ZiRu Dance. In 2024 she graduated summa cum laude from the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, with a BFA in Contemporary Dance and a minor in Global Studies, and was awarded a merit scholarship upon admission to the institution. At the Conservatory she trained in multiple techniques; ballet, modern (Limón, Horton, Graham, and Cunningham), jazz, and improvisation with internationally acclaimed faculty such as Kurt Douglas, Ruka Hatua-Saar White, and Brian McGinnis. During her studies, Bella worked with and performed works by artists such as Aszure Barton, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, José Limón, Loni Landon, Heather Stewart/little house dance, and Jawole Willa Jo Zolar. Outside of the Conservatory, Bella has also worked with choreographers such as FLOCK, Lauren Edson, Yoshito Sakuraba, Gianna Burright, Karl Watson, and Courtney Mazeika. She has furthered her training and artistic growth at programs including Ballet Jazz de Montreal, Orsolina28, b12 Berlin workshops, SALT LINK, Carmel Dance Festival Fellowship Program, Arts Umbrella, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Post:ballet, NorthWest Dance Project, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Born in Oakland, California, Bella grew up training at the San Francisco Ballet School, under the direction of Patrick Armand, performing in Helgi Tómmason’s The Nutcracker and George Balanchine’s Coppelia. From 2013-2020 she attended Oakland School for the Arts, under the direction of Reginald Ray-Savage and Alison Hurley, and in 2017 joined Savage Jazz Dance Company, a repertoire dance company, where she performed in multiple shows and dance festivals across the Bay Area.