ISABELLA Mireles VIK

dancer, Movement director and performance artist based in Houston TX.

Isabella Mireles Vik is a transdisciplinary artist based in Houston, Texas with a focus on contemporary dance, improvisation methodologies and body performance. Vik uses these elements to find the intersections in movement and experimental performance to create work questioning the human condition and societal struggles. Over a span of three years, Vik has self produced and performed in numerous projects for both film, stage, galleries and impractical spaces. Their work has been greatly influenced by their international and national research in performance and movement with artists such as Laja Field, Victor Rottier, Lewis Wilkins, Satoshi Kudo, Jozef Fruček, Horacio Macuacua, Edivaldo Ernesto, Peter Jasko, Cree Barnett Williams, Lisard Tarnis and Sidra Bell. In 2023 Vik formed their ensemble, Aufheben, as an extension of their work and a container for experimental performance research instigating new training opportunities in Houston.

“It’s important for me to continue this investigation of the body and performance in a more unorthodox way than the dance world sometimes allows because I want to show people that dance/movement is limitless.”