Acrobatic Stilts

Isabelle Kirouac is a professional dancer, acrobatic stilt-walker and movement educator. She has been teaching and performing for many years in Canada, the US, Mexico, Colombia, Estonia, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Israël, Morocco, Palestine and Senegal. Her stilt performance work “Like Houses through a kaleidoscope”, is a duet with Lea Kieffer (France) exploring the relationships between a ground dancer and an acrobatic stilt-walker and incorporating dance, circus and theater. It has been awarded grants from “Fonds de creation et de développement professionnel de la MRC d’Arthabaska” and “Canada Arts Council”, and has toured Quebec and California.

As an acrobatic stilt dancer, Isabelle has been a core member of The Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater (San Francisco/USA) and she collaborated with La Belle Zanka (France), Nemcatacoa Teatro (Colombia), Still Moon Performance Arts Society (BC/Canada), Dusty Flowerpot Cabaret (BC/Canada), Firebelly Productions (BC/Canada), Flam Chen Pyrotechnic Teater (USA), Co Julie Danse (New Brunswick/Canada) and Les Foutoukours (Quebec/Canada).

Past events included Magma Multicultural Festival, Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the IAAF World Junior Championships (Moncton NB), Montreal International Jazz Festival, Just for Laughs Festival (Montréal QC), Festival des Fromages Fins, (Warwick QC), St-Jean Baptiste (St-Jérôme QC), Cambie Village Summe Sizzler (Vancouver BC), The Midsummer’s Night Dream (Vancouver, BC), Still Moon Arts Festival (Vancouver BC), Seawheeze (Vancouver, BC), etc.