ERIKA TSIMBROVSKY
Choreographic Installations
Meditation / Landscape / Time / Moving Towards and Away
Arts & Humanities 2025 Graduate Exhibition at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, UC Davis, June 5–22, 2025.
Erika Tsimbrovsky, in collaboration with Vadim Puyandaev and Sean Olmstead
With dancers: Kasey Garcia Baysa, Naomi Duncan, Daniela Durkin
This multimedia dance installation explores movement as a form of embodied, experimental writing. Through structured improvisation, the performers engage in somatic note-taking using paper, twigs, and gesture—investigating the overlaps between language, landscape, and relational presence. The work invites audiences into a space of shared sensing, where meaning remains unfixed and open to reimagination.
Photos are owned by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Courtesy of the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. Photo: Hung Q. Pham Photography.
Featured in photographs: Erika Tsimbrovsky, Vadim Puyandaev, Sean Olmstead, Kasey Garcia Baysa, Naomi Duncan, and Daniela Durkin.
Photo: Marjorie Williams
Featured in photographs: Erika Tsimbrovsky, Vadim Puyandaev, Sean Olmstead, Kasey Garcia Baysa, Naomi Duncan, and Daniela Durkin.
Piles of Crumpling Paper A4
A choreo-graphic reflection on paper, labor, and memory
This intermedial installation grew from embodied workshops and choreographic scores involving dancing with paper wads, drawing, and writing. The crumpled A4 pages carry traces of intimate gestures, diary-like reflections, and quiet art labor. Paper becomes a site of layered meaning—at once document, story, and material for thinking through the body. Referencing its genealogies—from trees and books to bureaucracy and print—this work reflects on ecological impact, unseen artistic repetition, and the threatened presence of the physical in an increasingly digital world. Here, paper is not passive; it holds, performs, and remembers.
Photos are owned by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Photographer credit is: © Muzi Li Rowe