ISA LEAL<\/b><\/p>\n
b.1984 Queens, NY<\/span><\/p>\n 2020 MA in Performance Studies, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2006 B.A in Theatre and Dance, James Madison University<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 Figure Space Alumni<\/span><\/p>\n 2024 (Expected Graduation) Performance Studies PhD, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Director \/Facilitator<\/b><\/p>\n 2020 <\/span>Coastal Fog: A Dance Sonata in Four Movements, Facilitation\/Direction, Davis, CA<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 2016 <\/span>In Watermelon Sugar<\/span><\/i>, Facilitation\/Installation\/Direction, Fields Festival<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 <\/span>Flatland, Co-Direction\/Facilitation<\/span><\/i>, The Annex Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n 2014 <\/span>More Like a Monk, Evening of Dance works<\/span><\/i>, Producer\/Director, EMP Collective<\/span><\/p>\n 2012<\/span> Authentic Vehicle Experiments<\/span><\/i>, Direction\/Facilitation, Akimbo Dance Festival<\/span><\/p>\n 2012<\/span> More Human<\/span><\/i>,\u00a0 Director, UnSaddest Factory, 10 minute Play Festival, Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2009 <\/span>Can Do!<\/span><\/i>, Evening of work,Producer\/Director, This Little Bird, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2009<\/span> Improvisations<\/span><\/i>, Evening Length Work, Producer\/Director, Charlottesville,Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2008 <\/span>No Exit<\/span><\/i>, Guest Artist & Director, Piedmont Virginia Community College<\/span><\/p>\n 2008 Evening of Dance Works, Producer\/Director, The Bridge, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 <\/span>Still Life<\/span><\/i>:, Performance Installation, Producer\/Director,This Little Bird, Charlottesville,Va<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Movement Researcher<\/b><\/p>\n Current Ongoing: Geophysical Dance Research with Ian Faloon,a UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2019-2020 Group Improvisation Lab Labs with Joe Dumit, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2016-2018 Mindful Movement Curriculum, Movement Analyst, Kennedy Krieger Institute, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Seeds, Artist in Residence (Interdisciplinary Exchange, Science and Art), Plainfield, MA<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Figure Space Reunion, Research Intensive and performances, Earthdance, Plainfield, MA<\/span><\/p>\n Facilitated collaboration by Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson with; Karen Nelson, Margit Galanter, Danny Lepkoff, K.J, Holmes, Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad, etc.<\/span><\/p>\n 2013 Sierra Contact Festival (Adv. contact research labs)<\/span><\/p>\n 2011-2012 Figure Space, World Class Dance Research Intensives, Earthdance, Plainfield, MA<\/span><\/p>\n Material for the Spine, Steve Paxton, The Tuning Score, Lisa Nelson<\/span><\/p>\n 2010-2018 Solo and Group Improvisation with Kate Porter on Cello<\/span><\/p>\n 2009-2010 Solo Movement with Gerrit Roessler on found sound and computers<\/span><\/p>\n 2009-2010 Solo Movement with Stephen Nachmanovitch, Violin\/Viola, Weekly, This Little Bird<\/span><\/p>\n 2008-2010 \u2018Dancing in the Halls\u201d Weekly improvisation research with Zen Monkey Project<\/span><\/p>\n 2008-2010 \u201cAuthentic Movement Mornings\u201d Research(weekly), This Little Bird Studio\/Zen Monkey<\/span><\/p>\n 2008 Karl Frost, Contact Improvisation, Performance Research, Charlottesville,Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Nina Martin, Improvisation Intensive, Earthdance, Plainfield, Ma<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Karl Frost, Contact Improvisation Intensive and performance, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Martin Keogh, Contact Improvisation Intensive, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Brad Stoller, Contact Improvisation Intensive, Carborough, North Carolina<\/span><\/p>\n 2006 Martin Keogh, Contact Improvisation, Intensive, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2006-2010 Brad Stoller, Weekly, Contact Improvisation. Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2005, 2006 Zen Monkey Project 3 week Intensives, Contact\/Somatics, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Maker of Performance Experiments<\/b><\/p>\n 2019 <\/span>Composing with Living<\/span><\/i>, European Tour<\/span><\/p>\n 2019 <\/span>You Make Me<\/span><\/i>, Performance Installation, Davis, CA<\/span><\/p>\n 2017 <\/span>Symptom of Capitalism: A Dance of the Imagination<\/span><\/i>, The Holy Underground<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 saythemagicpassword:themagicpassword,Various Locations<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 <\/span>The Hotdog Piece<\/span><\/i>, EMP Collective, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2015<\/span> A Woman\u2019s Fantasy<\/span><\/i>, EMP collective, Iron Rainbow Dance Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n 2014 <\/span>Looking down on Oppression<\/span><\/i>, Current Gallery, Iron Rainbow Dance Theatre<\/span><\/p>\n 2013 <\/span>Experiments!<\/span><\/i> 5 month solo tour\/Performance research with audiences<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The Toothbrush Piece, Opening the Door, Witnessing the Audience<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 2012 <\/span>Silent Vow<\/span><\/i>, 31 days, Silent in City Life, Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 <\/span>Authentic Vehicle Research<\/span><\/i>, Akimbo Dance Festival, D-Center, Iron Rainbow<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Performer-Collaborator<\/b><\/p>\n 2020: <\/span>Coastal Fog: A Dance Sonata in Four Movements<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n 2019 Composing with Living, European Tour<\/span><\/p>\n 2017 Container with Miles Kurtz-Clark & Hannah Jeremiah, Overlapping Kinespheres Festival<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Cave Coast, Collaborative Experiments up the C.A. Coast with Margit Galanter<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 <\/span>In Watermelon Sugar<\/span><\/i>, Facilitated\/Acted, Performance Installation, Fields Festival<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 Bubbles Please with Michael Wasteneys Stephens, The Penthouse Gallery, Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 The Toothbrush Piece with Kate Porter, Feel, 5th Dimension, Baltimore. MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 Authentic Vehicle Research, Akimbo Dance Festival, D-Center\/Wind-up Space<\/span><\/p>\n 2012 Water Cycles, The Annex Theatre,Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 Power Moves Forever Quest with Claire Cote, Transmodern Festival, Baltimore MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 The Artist Statement, Theresa Columbus,Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 Wedding on the Eiffel Tower, BXDC\/ The Annex Theatre, Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 Moves Gallery Residency, Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective, Brooklyn, New York<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 The Pod, Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective, Copycat Theatre, Baltimore,MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2011 Authentic Movement Study 1, with Claire Cote, Copycat Theatre, Baltimore,MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2010 Eyes Everywhere, Baltimore Experimental Dance Collective, Show Paper, New York<\/span><\/p>\n 2010 Fantastic Planet ( summer revival), The Annex Theatre, Baltimore , MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2009 Music and Movement with Gerrit Roessler and Isa Leal<\/span><\/p>\n 2009 Evening of Improvisations with Zen Monkey Project<\/span><\/p>\n 2009 Music and Movement Improvisations with Stephen Nachmanovitch and Isa Leal<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Shentai Arts Carnival, Monkey, Fire dancer, Zen Monkey Project, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Still Life:, Performance Installation, Charlottesville,Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Close Quarters, with Karl Frost and Zen Monkey Project, Charlottesville,Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2006 Anna Karenina, \u201cAnna Karenina\u201d, Live Arts, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Curator-Arts Administrator<\/b><\/p>\n 2016 Transmodern Festival, The Yes Men, with The Contemporary CoHosts II, Md<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Core Organizer, Curator, 13th Transmodern Performance Festival, Md<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Audience Development Coordinator, Akimbo Dance and Movement Art Festival<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 Curator, Visible: An Incidental Symphony for Transmodern Festival, Md<\/span><\/p>\n 2013-2014 Booked and Produced Experiments! Across the U.S and Mexico<\/span><\/p>\n 2011-2013 Founder\/Facilitator, Cooperative Art Space, Curious Palace, Baltimore, Md<\/span><\/p>\n 2011- 2014 Artistic Director\/Founder, Iron Rainbow Dance Theatre, Baltimore, Md<\/span><\/p>\n 2008-2010 McGuffey Art Center Resident \/This Little Bird Studio, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2008-2010 Artistic Director\/ Founder, This Little Bird ,Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007-2009 Assistant for the Arts Coordinator, Piedmont Community College, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2007 Assisted, Acting Zen Monkey Project Director, Charlottesville, Va<\/span><\/p>\n 2004-2005 Office Assistant, James Madison University, School of Theatre and Dance<\/span><\/p>\n 2004 Virginia Theatre Association Intern, James Madison University<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n As a Teacher<\/b><\/p>\n Currently<\/span>:<\/b>Associate Instructor in Theatre and Dance, University of CA, Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2020 Geophysical Dance with Ian Faloona, PhD, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2019 Beg Modern Dance, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2019\u00a0 Embodied Creativity with Joe Dumit, PhD, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2018-Present Introduction to Acting, UC Davis<\/span><\/p>\n 2016-2018\u00a0 Kennedy Krieger, Center for Neurodevelopmental and Imaging Research, MD,\u00a0 Mindful Movement<\/span><\/p>\n 2016 Guest teacher, MFS\/Tuning Score, Ci, Towson University, Baltimore, MD<\/span><\/p>\n 2015 Empathy in Performance, Baltimore Free School, MD<\/span><\/p>\n