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About Isabella: Isabella Mireles Vik is an interdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas with a focus on contemporary movement, improvisation and body performance art. Vik uses these elements to find the intersections in movement and experimental performance to create work questioning the human condition and societal struggles pertaining to the working class, gender, psychology and spiritual belief. Vik’s preprofessional training was under Luis Fuentes and Mischa Bart at her home studio in Houston under artistic director Lynette Mason Greg predominantly in vaganova ballet and post-modern dance. Their professional training has continued with a strong focus on contemporary dance technique involving floor work, acrobatics, improvisation and physical theater. Vik has continued their research through workshops and festivals including Atlas Dance Festival 2023 and 2025, three consecutive returns to B12, Fighting Monkey technique, Sidra Bell’s Module (Summer 2022) and Kevin Clark’s Soluq Source (Fall 2021). Vik has trained with a variety of artists including; Anton Lachky, Laja Field, Victor Rottier, Sadé Alleyne, Sita Osthiemer, Satoshi Kudo, Lewis Welkins, Francisco Cardovo, Edivaldo Ernesto, Haracio Macuacua, Peter Jasko, Lisard Tarnis and Cree Barnett Williams. Over a span of three years, Vik has self produced and performed in 11 different works for both film, stage, galleries and impractical spaces. They have also lent themselves to the artistic visions of choreographers Ashley Clos, Jocelyn Cottencin, Emmanuelle Huynh, Karole Armitage, Kay Colleymore and worked with performance artists such as Non Grata, Jim Pirtle and Y.E.T Torres. In 2023 Vik formed their ensemble, Aufheben, as an extension of their work and a container for experimental performance research instigating new training opportunities and performance opportunities from their personal research in Houston TX.
