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Avy K Productions founded by Erika Tsimbrovsky, Vadim Puyandaev, and Laura Maguire, 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 and dance performance. Born in Kazakhstan, she studied modern and contemporary dance in Belarus, Moscow, Amsterdam, and the USA. Tsimbrovsky has an MFA in Dance with 20-30 years of experience as an innovative multidisciplinary artist. 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 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. Tsimbrovsky explores new ways to engage the public as an active observer. In her approach to art-making, she uses the principles of visual art, she draws inspiration from the tools of physical movement and improvisation in both theater and dance, resulting in an experimental dance/art installation. Her projects are highly collaborative with an emphasis on community diversity and equal opportunities for each person involved in the creative and research process.
She is currently in the Ph.D. program in Performance Studies at UC Davis. Tsimbrovsky’s current research focuses on transformations that constantly happen in the contemporary dance field and their inclination towards performance art to create new discourses. Objects of her inquiry are dance installations, avant-garde arts, feminist arts, and notions of otherness. CV

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 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
