Isabel Lewis (Berlin, born 1981 Dominican Republic), trained in dance and choreography, literary criticism, and philosophy, is an artist and choreographer whose work takes on many different formats: from lecture performances and workshops to listening sessions, publications and what she has named “hosted occasions.” She has created projects around open-source technology and dance improvisation, social dances as cultural storage systems, collaborative choreographic formats, future bodily techniques and ecological thinking, and rapping as embodied speech act.

Her works have been presented in the contexts of contemporary art, music, dance, and theater by the Archiv der Avantgarden (2024), Sophiensæle (2023), Biennale Son (2023), Dance First Think Later (2022), Ocean Space (2021), Kunsthalle Zürich (2020), Sharjah Biennial (2019), Roskilde Festival (2019), Berliner Festspiele-Gropius Bau (2018), Tate Modern (2017), Steirischer Herbst (2017), Dia Foundation (2016), Ming Contemporary Art Museum Shanghai (2016), and Tanz im August (2015) among others. Lewis is a professor at the Fine Art Academy in Leipzig leading the Class for Performative Arts since 2021. She is the artistic co-director of the Tanzquartier Wien: Open House for Dance and Performance Cultures.