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Avy K Productions brings together local and international artists to create improvised multi-media performances. Avy K’s signature audio-visual-kinetic approach combines contemporary dance, live painting, installation, music, and video.

Erika Tsimbrovsky

is an innovator in the field of improvised theatre, dance installation-performance, and multimedia art projects. Tsimbrovsky has an MFA in Dance with three decades of experience of collaboratively creating artwork with diverse communities. During this period of time, she co-founded the award-winning experimental performance group EVM Laboratories to research the interaction between diverse media structures and to develop specific improvisational performance techniques. Avy K Productions is the San Francisco-based incarnation of her and visual artist Vadim Puyandaev’s over 30-year collaboration, featuring their signature “audio-visual-kinetic” approach, which brings together contemporary dance, live painting, evolving material installation, video projection, and live music.

She is multicultural and multilingual and has lived and practiced in six countries. Her practice coalesces somatic (bodily) explorations, visual art principles, and tools of movement and improvisation in both theatre and dance, resulting in experimental dance/art installation that she calls “asemic”— in other words “outside of normative understanding.” She explores new ways to engage the public as an active observer of performance. The projects she is creating are highly collaborative, emphasizing community diversity and equal opportunities for each person involved in the creative process.

She is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at UC Davis. Tsimbrovsky’s current artistic research intersects dance, performance art and communities focusing on dance installation, (r)evolutionary arts, somatic feminisms, notions of otherness, and the generation of engaged local communities. CV

Vadim Puyandaev

(visual artist/performer) has worked as a painter, sculptor, and designer for three decades and has been participating in multi-media dance performances since 1994. His fine art has been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Russia, Israel, Japan, Switzerland, France, Spain, Canada, and the US. Puyandaev had also produced numerous pieces of monumental art, including a commission to design a bridge over the Red Sea in Israel. With Tsimbrovsky, he is a founding member of the creative collectives EVM Laboratories (Israel) and Avy K Productions (US), dedicated to investigating what emerges in performance at the nexus of different genres. www.vadimpuyandaev.com