| Who We Are
Founded
by long-time collaborators Erika Tsimbrovsky and Vadim Puyandaev, 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,
video, and music. Using innovative techniques, the performers improvise
within a set structure, responding to one another, the audience, and
their own creative impulses in the moment. As a result, no two
performances are the same.
Avy K’s work has strong visual
elements—sets and costumes take on a life of their own, breathing and
dancing with the performers as the space evolves—and aesthetic principles from painting composition are used in developing movement codes.
Tsimbrovsky and Puyandaev premiered their work in the Bay Area in 2007 with The Garden at NOHspace, San Francisco, then, joined by Maguire, at Dinkelspiel Auditorium, Stanford University. Scrap-Soup followed in 2008 at Theater Artaud, San Francisco. We are currently working on our new project, Nocturnal Butterflies, to premier in December 2009 at Theater Artaud.
Avy K Productions
Erika Tsimbrovsky (artistic director/choreographer)
is an innovator in the field of improvised dance performance. Born in
Kazakhstan, she studied modern and contemporary dance in Belarus,
Moscow, and Amsterdam. In Israel, where she lived for twelve years, 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. During this period of collaborative research, Tsimbrovsky’s
audio-visual-kinetic approach to performance evolved. Erika now teaches and performs in San Francisco.
Vadim Puyandaev (visual artist/performer) has worked as a painter, sculptor,
and designer for over twenty years and has been participating in
multi-media dance performances since 1998. 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.
Laura
Maguire (concept-monger) came to the US from Ireland to study
Philosophy. She received her PhD from Stanford University, where she
currently teaches. Laura has studied various forms of improvisational
dance, including Argentine Tango and Contact Improvisation. She participated in Anna Halprin's 2006 reconstruction of Ten Myths and she also performed in Halprin's Dancing with the Rodins: Awaken. She recently choreographed a short dance for The Real Kim Harmon's Habeas Corpus.
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Grundik Kasyansky (musician/composer) is a London-based artist who works in improvisation, live installation, and audio collage, designing sound for dance, theatre, and film.
Albert Mathias (musician/composer) has been creating music for movement in San Francisco since 1991. A multi-disciplinary musician, his focus is on accompaniment, composition, and sound design for dance/theater, CD, and film.
Sean Feit (musician/composer) is multi-instrumentalist working primarily in movement-based theater.
Vyacheslav Ganelin (musician/composer) is a Lithuanian Jewish musician and one of the pioneers of free jazz in the Soviet Union. He plays piano, organ, bass, guitar, and percussion.
Seventing Migs of Spring (band) are an electronic music project from Israel known for their dark ambient trips, punctuated with digital glitchery and an industrial edge.
Maksim Goldenberg (musician/composer) is co-founder of the award-winning EVM Laboratories in Israel.
Suzanne Lappas (dancer) can be seen on stages, screens, and outdoors with La Alternativa (formerly MotionLab), Scott Wells and Dancers, Limbinal, Erika Tsimbrovsky/Avy K Productions, Joe Goode Performance Group, and the Lisa Townsend Company.
Andrew Ward (dancer) dances with the Joe Goode Performance Group, Scott Wells and Dancers, and Erika Tsimbrovsky/Avy K Productions.
Rosemary Hannon (dancer) has danced with Alma Esperanza Cunningham Movement, Scott Wells and Dancers, and the Body Cartography Project. She co-founded NONO Dance Company with Vitali Kononov
Lindsay Gauthier (dancer) has danced with Scott Wells and Dancers, Bow and Sparrow, LiYanna Silver, and ABD Productions. She is also the co-founder and co-director of Limbinal, a San Francisco-based experimental dance collective.
Kegan Marling (dancer) has been professionally creating dances, sound scores, and installation pieces for the past 10 years. He has performed for artists including Bill T. Jones, Nigel Charnock (DV8), Lea Anderson, Scott Wells, and Della Davidson.
Christine Bonansea (dancer) has performed with EmSpace Dance, Huckabay McAllister Dance, Lisa Townsend Company, PeckPeck Dance Ensemble, Paige Sorvillo/blindsight, Kim Epifano, Kelly Kemp, PunkkiCo, Catherine Galasso, and Folawole Oyinlola.Kira Maria Kirsh (dancer) works in San Francisco with choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Erika Tsimbrovsky, and has performed internationally with Pipaluk Supernova/Half Machine, PARTS, Anna Tenta, Frey Faust's ABCD Collective, and others.
Daniel Bear Davis (dancer) is co-director of dance theatre company Shah and Blah Productions and has performed internationally and across the US with The Carpetbag Brigade, Katsura Kan, The Body Cartography Project, Half Machine, Felix Ruckert, Wire Monkey Dance, and others.
Ruslan Belorusets (video artist) was born in Ukraine where he studied applied math and visual art. Since he moved to the Bay Area, he became interested in modern videography and video art.
Aleksey Bochkovsky (photographer) was born in Kiev, Ukraine, and moved to the Bay Area in 2005. Aleksey has participated in exhibits in New York and San Francisco and has received awards for his creative work.
Kedar Lawrence (light designer) has been working as a lighting designer and operator since 2000. He has worked on shows throughout the Bay Area, as well as in Arizona and Spain, in spaces from 50 to 3,500 seats.
Natasha Zborovskaya-Sigawi (visual artist and photographer)
Izmail (Israel) Galin (visual artist and photographer)
Olya Vinogradsky (photographer)
Peter Chayka (outsider artist)
Daisy Phillipps (dancer)
Paige Starling Sorvillo (dancer) is physical performer and creator of live environments.
Stephen B Siegel (light designer)
André Williams (videographer)
David Puyandaev (production assistant) is a gifted high-school student and a budding writer, translator, and performing arts producer. He is fluent in Russian, Hebrew, and English, and is becoming proficient in Arabic, French and Spanish. After working on Scrap-Soup, David is now devoting himself to his studies.
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