Live works created by Vanessa Agle Isaac across stage and site.

Palace

A live performance collaboration with two-time Grammy winner Ted Nash, commissioned by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art — 2025. Presented as a free public performance in Santa Barbara.

Palace was created in response to the exhibition Modern Life: A Global Artworld, 1850–1950. Developed for live performance, the work engages music and movement as a dialogue with modern art, drawing inspiration from artists including Pierre Bonnard, Wifredo Lam, and Georgia O’Keeffe.

Bach and Bachianas

A choreographic work created by Vanessa Agle Isaac, commissioned for presentation by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art in collaboration with the Santa Barbara Symphony, inspired by the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos and Johann Sebastian Bach— 2024

Created for live performance, the choreography responds to musical structure, phrasing, and contrast, translating these compositional elements into movement.

Passagens

Created for Fête de la Danse, commissioned by Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, performed in Monaco, with music direction by Marcus Santos and an international cast of musicians and dancers — 2023

Context: In Portuguese, passagem refers to a passageway or bridge, a corridor that connects one place to another while remaining open in both directions. The work draws on this idea as a structural principle, framing choreography as movement between past and future, origin and projection.

Choreographic work commissioned and presented by the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, inspired by the work of visual artist Valeska Soares. Presented as a free public performance in Santa Barbara.
An exploration of memory, longing, and musical structure through embodied form — 2017.

Hip Brazil

Hip Brazil is a long running community based project that brings people together through collective movement, Afro Brazilian rhythms, artistic expression, and intercultural exchange. Ongoing since 2000.