About

Isabella Vik is a former classical ballet dancer turned performance artist focusing on body and movement experimentation. With over 15+ years of training and experience in ballet, modern/contemporary and performing. Growing up, she often found herself enjoying the physical and mental challenges of ballet, but felt herself conforming to traditional ideas of dance and limiting her creativity. Now Isabella has taken the tools provided from ballet and uses them in her own unique forms of artistic expression. She focuses primarily on structured improvisation, incorporating props and blending multiple disciplines to create her pieces. As a developing artist and choreographer, Isabella's style of dance can be described as movement experimentation. Her inspiration stems from artists such as Martha Graham, Marco Geocke, Pina Bausch and William Forsythe to name a few. Other inspirations beyond choreographers and dancers come from Dada, Absurdism and performance artists such as Marina Abravomic and Ron Athey. Isabella uses her experiences with anxiety, anger, joy and other emotions to guide her back to the bodies jerk reactions or movement responses to those said emotions to build her pieces.