This was the first shoot Isabella Hoy and I did together. We hit it off and created some epic stills in a photo studio located in downtown Los Angeles.
Here’s my favorite shots from the shoot + a few questions for Isabella herself!
Give us a short introduction!
Hello! My name is Isabella Hoy. I was born in St.Louis, MO, but CA is my home and has been for the past seventeen years. Although I have been teaching ballet for three years now, I only recently began dancing again. Having stopped dance at the age of fourteen, I feel so grateful to be able to dance again at twenty-three. So, for the past few months my life has been class, class, and more class. When I’m not dancing or teaching, you’ll probably find me reading or spending time with my incredible family and friends for whom I am so fortunate to have in my life.
What places do you want to travel to the most?
I’m ready to go back to Italy, like… right away! However, at the top of my list right now, I would also include Japan, Amsterdam, Ireland, and Spain.
Who’s your current favorite dance choreographer at the moment?
I’ve been watching a lot of Fredrick Ashton’s work, so I would have to say Mr. Ashton at the moment!
Pizza or burgers?
Pizza (but by that I mean my bisnonna/great grandmother’s handmade Sicilian pizza!).
Do you need white noise to sleep? Or silence?
Ah yes, the sound of rain and crickets is very soothing to me.
Do you like comedy? (If so, what’re some of your favorite comedy shows or movies?)
Oh, this is such a difficult question, there are too many to name, so I’ll just say the first movie that comes to mind is “The Frisco Kid” and the first show that comes to mind is “Fleabag”.
What’s a piece of art (movie, painting, play, ballet, broadway, television show, book, song, poem, etc..) That moved you the most this year so far?
I find poetry incredibly inspiring and it truly adds such depth and beauty to my life. I have a notebook where I write down every poem that speaks to me in someway. Out of the hundreds of poems and quotes in there, the one I’m thinking of now is “Ithaka” by C.P. Cavafy
What do you enjoy about dancing?
I’ve been enchanted by ballet since I was two years old. So I shall say to dance is to live.
What’s something people might not know about you?
Literature, music, and acting has always and continues to be a large part of my life.
Would you rather cook 20 pies or rollerblade 20 miles?
I love to cook so I’d absolutely bake those twenty pies.