Jean Isaacs (choreographer) was the founder and Artistic Director of Three's Company, later of Isaacs, McCaleb and Dancers. Since 1997, she has served as Artistic Director of the twenty-five years old San Diego Dance Theatre. Isaacs formed the San Diego Dance Alliance in 1981 to encourage dancers and choreographers in the region to work together for mutual goals. Isaacs trained in Graham, Horton and Cunningham techniques, and has choreographed more than sixty dances in her lifetime.

Her The Mist Leaves No Scar has been performed in eleven states and five countries. Isaacs has choreographed dances for La Jolla Playhouse, the San Diego Repertory Theatre, Starlight Musical Theatre, Southeast Community Theatre and Southwestern College. Isaacs has been actively involved in projects that create binational opportunities for area dancers and choreographers. She organized a six-week course in technique and repertory at the Casa de la Cultural in Tijuana, Mexico, in 1989 and 1990, and taught a Masters Course in Dance, Un Desierto para la Danza, in Sonora in April 1999. She also arranged international touring opportunities for Isaacs, McCaleb and Dancers, including the Festival San Luis Potosi 1995 and 1996, Festival de la Frontera in Tijuana in 1996 and 1997, and the Festival Jose Limon in Los Mochis, Mazatlan and Hermosillo from 1991 to 1997.

In 1996, in partnership with Carmen Bojorquez, Isaacs directed Danza Calfornias, a three-day symposium at the Universidad Autonomia de Baja California in Mexicali. Isaacs established an ongoing partnership with Mexicali's Parelelo 32, a five member professional dance company for which she created four dances and continuing performance opportunities with San Diego Dance Theatre, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, and the Competition Choreographic 1998 in Mexico City. Most recently, Isaacs created and produced the Festival of Contemporary Mexican Dances at San Diego State University, featuring companies of Marco Antonio Silva, Miguel Mancillas (Antares) and Alicia Sanchez. Isaacs designed and implemented the border project Within Limits, combining five dancers from the Grupo de Danza Minerva Tapia with dancers from San Diego Dance Theatre in a full evening of choreography by herself and Sonoras Adriana Castanos.

Isaacs has been recognized by her peers with nomination for a National Choreography Award in 1990, and with the first annual Tommy Award for service to the San Diego dance community in 1992 and a second Tommy award for outstanding service in educating area dancers in 1998.