Isabella "Bella" Soo-Hoo (she/her) was born in Oakland, California and 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 she joined Savage Jazz Dance Company, a repertoire dance company, where she performed in multiple shows and dance festivals across the Bay Area. In 2020 she was chosen as a Contemporary Dance BFA candidate at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, with a minor in Global Studies, and was awarded a merit scholarship. 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, Brian McGinnis, Gianni Di Marco, and Olivier Besson. During her studies, Isabella has worked with and performed works by artists such as Aszure Barton, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, José Limón, Heather Stewart, Jawole Willa Jo Zolar, Danny Pelzig, and Robin Aren. Isabella has furthered her training and artistic growth at programs including b12, Carmel Dance Festival Fellowship Program, Arts Umbrella, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Post:ballet, NorthWest Dance Project, and Alonzo King LINES Ballet.