Isabelle Nelson is a professional dancer, choreographer, teacher and producer with fifteen years of work across the UK, Netherlands, Germany and New Zealand. Her practice is now evolving toward facilitation, programme design and applied work in arts management, drawing on her recently completed MA research on UK freelance dancer mental health and wellbeing.

She founded and led IN Dance Co. through three years of live and screen-based dance production in Amsterdam, managing approximately eighty thousand euros of public funding from Fonds Podiumkunsten, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst, and Dansersfonds’79, working with rotating freelance casts, production teams and venues.

This page brings together recent work that shows the practitioner foundation underpinning her current development.

A two-minute showreel of choreographic and screendance work created across the past four years.

A duet drawing on the Maori word for “one” or “joining as one” to explore vulnerability, bravery and the work of learning to see another not as a hindrance but as an inextricable part of one’s evolution.

She currently teaches Countertechnique at Rambert School in London, and has taught across European conservatoires including Codarts Rotterdam, Oslo Academy of Arts, Fontys Academy of the Arts, and Henny Jurriens Studio Amsterdam as well as leading Company class for most recently Wayne McGregor and National Dance Company of Wales amongst others.