Isabel is a Brooklyn-based dance artist and curator. She is a graduate of Hollins University where she majored in both Dance and English with a focus in Literary Criticism. Since moving to NYC in September of 2003 Isabel formed The Labor Union with Erika Hand and has presented work at the Cunningham Studios, Dance New Amsterdam, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church, Dixon Place, Movement Research at Judson Church, PS 122, and The Kitchen amongst other venues in Manhattan and the outer boroughs. Isabel also creates solo work and performs with her three siblings as LEWIS FOREVER, with Ann Liv Young, and with Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People. Isabel has had the honor of being a Movement Research Artist in Residence and a Fresh Tracks Residency Recipient in 2005-2006 and has been selected to take part in the Meeting Points Artist Exchange in Budapest in the summer of 2008. She has worked as an editor and writer for the Movement Research Performance Journal and has been the curator for the dance series, Body Blend, at Dixon Place since March of 2005. As a curator Isabel has also worked on the Movement Research Festival 2004: Improvisation is Hard and the Movement Research Festival Spring 2007: Reverence (Irreverence). Isabel recently opened a new performance space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn along with dance artists Felicia Ballos and Beth Gill called BARN.