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Isaac Bates-Vinueza is a writer, dance artist, choreographer, and educator.
He lives in San Francisco.
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He lives in San Francisco.
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BA in English, Highest Honors
2025
SFDANCEWORKS
San Francisco, CA
Dance Artist
(since 2023)
Post:ballet
Berkeley, CA
Dance Artist
2023 - 2025
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
San Francisco, CA
Dance Artist
2019 - 2022
Sacramento Ballet
Sacramento, CA
Dance Artist
2016 - 2021
LED Boise
Boise, ID
Dance Artist
2019
Education
Berkeley Ballet
Berkeley, CA
Dance Instructor
Ballet / Contemporary Dance / Improvisation
(since 2022)
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Berkeley, CA
Writing Fellow
2024 - 2025
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
Course Instructor
Departent of Theater, Dance, and Perfromance Studies
2022
SFDANCEWORKS
San Francisco,CA
Company Class Teacher
(since 2023)
Berkeley Ballet
Berkeley,CA
Rehearsal Director
2024 - 2025
Sacramento Ballet
Sacramento, CA
Dance Instructor
Advanced Contemporary Dance
2018 - 2020
Writing / Editing
Freelance Editor
San Francisco, CA
(since 2025)
The Daily Californian
Berkeley, CA
Arts and Culture Writer
2023 - 2024
Berkeley Fiction Review
Berkeley, CA
Associate Editor
2021 - 2022
Admin
SFDANCEWORKS
San Francisco, CA
Operations and Communications Associate
(since 2025)
Yin Yue
SFDANCEWORKS
2025
Everything Happens Later
JA Collective
SFDANCEWORKS
Original Cast
2025
Magma
Moscelyne ParkeHarrison
Post:ballet in collaboration with The Midway, SF
Original Cast
2023 / 2024 / 2025
The Broken Glass
Brian Arias
SFDANCEWORKS
Original Cast
2023 / 2024
Sheep’s Gothic
Rena Butler
SFDANCEWORKS
Original Cast
2024
The Tone Inside
Laura O’Malley
SFDANCEWORKS
Original Cast
2023
Liminal Space
Natasha Adorlee
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
Original Cast
2022
Tides
Amy Seiwert
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
Original Cast
2022
Otra Vez, Otra Vez, Otra Vez Stephanie Martinez
Amy Seiwert’s Imagery
Original Cast
20219
Ghost Notes
Lauren Edson
LED Boise
Original Cast
2019
Written and Forgotten
Anabelle Lopez Ochoa
Sacramento Ballet
2019
Instructions
Amy Seiwert
Sacramento Ballet
2018
Black Eyed Dog
Penny Saunders
Sacramento Ballet
Original Cast
2018
Tarantella
George Balanchine
Sacramento Ballet
2018
Giselle
Ron Cunningham
Sacramento Ballet
2018
Theme and Variations
George Balanchine
Sacramento Ballet
2018
Donezetti Variations
George Balanchine
Sacramento Ballet
2017
Scènes de Ballet
Christopher Wheeldon
Pacific Northwest Ballet School
2016
Emergence
Crystal Pite
Pacific Northwest Ballet
2015
A piece for two dancers
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
2022
Rumor
A piece for ten dancers
Sacramento Ballet
2022
After All
A piece for eight dancers
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Sacramento Ballet
2019
Garden
A piece for five dancers
Sacramento Ballet
2017
UC Berkeley English Department
Award Recognizing the Best Undergraduate Honors Thesis
2025
Phi Beta Kappa
UC Berkeley
2025
Wells Prize
UC Berkeley English Department
Award Recognizing the Best Undergraduate Research Essay
2024
Writing Fellowship
Berkeley, CA
2024 - 2025
Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival
Ann and Weston Hicks Choreography Fellowship
Becket, MA
2022
Flemming Halby Exchange
Royal Danish Ballet
Copenhagen, DE
2016
Last Updated 08.29.25
Sacramento Ballet
2017
Garden is a chilling, tender work of dance-theater. Five characters wander through a bizarre dreamscape where time seems to have stopped. Each enacts a repetitive ritual--either an attempt at connection or escape--oftentimes to no avail.
Music
Antonio Vivaldi & Gabriel Fauré
OC
Anthony Canarella
Julia Feldman
Jonathan Harris
Shania Rasmussen
Isabella Velasquez
Sacramento Ballet
2022
Rumor is an abstract contemporary dance for ten artists. Set to a range of music, the piece is a somber meditation on grief, love, and loneliness, and pays hommage to masterworks by Anne Theresa de Keersmaeker and George Balanchine.
Music
Michale Vallera, Andy Stott, & Sergei Rachmaninoff
OC
Mesa Burdick
Matisse D’Aloisio
Kaori Higashiyama
Michelle Katcher
Victor Maguad
Wyatt McConville-McCoy
Shania Rasmussen
Wen Na Robertson
Isabella Velasquez
Dominique Wendt
2025
“Leonardo & Lautreamont” is a searching, cross-disciplinary critique of the stories we tell about creativity and an investigation into the myth of the inner child.
Pairing a discussion of Lautréamont’s 19th century surrealist masterpiece, Les Chants de Maldaror, with a critique of Freud’s biography of Leonardo da Vinci, the essay asks us to rethink our assumptions what it means to be an artist--a re-definition that invites far-reaching political and cultural implications.
Post:ballet
2025
Magma is an immersive dance theater work for 10 dancers, set to a score mixed by Palestinian-American DJ Ari B.
Sacramento Ballet
2019
After All is a short work of contemporary dance for nine dancers.
Music
Antonio Vivaldi
OC
Anthony Canarella
Jonathan Harris
Shania Rasmussen
Isabella Velasquez
Lauren Winterhalder
Michelle Katcher
Ben Youngstone
Frances Powless
Austin Meiteen