Community Director

Isabel Hunter is a interdisciplinary dance artist whose practices oscillate between improvisation, photography, and writing. Her work continues to return to and reimagine desire, memory, and instinct.

Isabel graduated from the Boston Conservatory in 2021 with a major in Contemporary Dance Performance and a minor in Psychology. Since relocating to Maine, she has become a company member and Community Director of little house dance, a project-based dance company in Portland, Maine, under the direction of Heather Stewart. She also works with Spark Inclusive Arts, an organization in Maine that teaches the DanceAbility method and aims to dissolve barriers between people with and without disabilities.

In 2025, she founded a community-based dance and multidisciplinary festival in Portland, now held annually at SPACE Gallery as part of the little house creates festival.

Her choreographic and teaching practices are grounded in improvisation and interdisciplinary exploration, creating space for transparency, curiosity, and unexpected forms of authentic expression.

Her choreographic work has been supported by the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission, with original works premiering in Portland over the last several years. In 2024, she was awarded a Creative Fellowship at Chulitna Lodge, an artist residency in Lake Clark, Alaska. In 2026, she attended NES Artist Residency in Skagaströnd, Iceland, where she continued improvisational research and began developing her first photography book. Most recently, her self-portraits were accepted into LIVE/LENS, an exhibition curated by Lights Out Gallery, Celebration Barn, and Performance Arts Initiative.

Photography has become a natural extension of Isabel’s movement practice. Most of her photographs are self-portraits, born from states of improvisation and an ongoing communication with instinct and memory. In them she asks her body to reveal something, allowing the image to emerge from the same place of listening that informs her dance practice. What follows is often intimate and liminal.

Across these practices, Isabel is interested in the impossible task of visiting where memories live in the body and attempting to retrieve them in an effort to see herself clearly.