With roots dating back to the 1990s, Avy K Productions has played a distinctive role in shaping the improvisational multimedia and interdisciplinary dance landscape of the San Francisco Bay Area. Through its work, Avy K has influenced the discourse surrounding radical dance and experimental art.

Founded and led by choreographic artist Erika Tsimbrovsky, in collaboration with visual artist Vadim Puyandaev and other creatives from diverse disciplines, Avy K curates and produces innovative dance performances, exhibitions, multimedia installations, and live art. Its work transcends conventional boundaries of genre, discipline, and time, fostering new modes of artistic expression.

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After immigrating to the United States in 2006, Tsimbrovsky and Puyandaev created their first U.S.-based project, The Garden, in 2007. This multimedia-structured improvisation, performed at Noh Space in San Francisco, explored themes of memory, nature, and the ephemeral connection between matter and spirit—like childhood recollections that surface in dreams. They met Laura Maguire, a PhD in Philosophy from Stanford University, at that performance. She expressed great interest in their work and invited them to perform it at Stanford University. 

 

Inspired by this experience, they formally established Avy K Productions, naming it after the audio-visual-kinetic approach Erika and Vadim had been developing through years of collaborative creation across different countries. Avy K’s first official project, Scrap-Soup (2008), was performed at Theatre Artaud in San Francisco, marking the beginning of its journey as a platform for experimental and interdisciplinary performance.