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 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, Brian McGinnis, Junichi Fukuda, and Olivier Besson. During her studies, Bella has worked with and performed works by artists such as Aszure Barton, Gustavo Ramírez Sansano, José Limón, Loni Landon, Heather Stewart/little house dance, Jawole Willa Jo Zolar, Danny Pelzig, and Robin Aren. 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 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. CurrentlyBella is a current freelance dancer based in the San Francisco Bay Area and a dance artist with ZiRu Dance and Pearl Street Dance Collective.