CV

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS/ PERFORMANCES/ PROJECTS:

2023       Hazy Dayz Stockholm, SE Performance by Darya Efrat

2019-22  TIRED OUT Touring Performance  Darya Efrat

2021       A Stop Along the Way ∙ Aveiro, PT ∙ Performance by Darya Efrat, part of Suspended Islands, Festival dos Canais. 

2021       Hanging Out to Dry ∙ Porto, PT Mural by Aura Lewis and Darya Efrat, commissioned by the Communa Garage

2020       CircoAGITado no Vale ∙ Águeda, PT ∙ Artistic Director and Producer

2020       Suspended Islands ∙ Aveiro, PT ∙ Co-Artistic Director and Co-Producer with Wura Moraes

2020       Lock-IN ∙ Aveiro, PT ∙ Performance by Darya Efrat, part of Suspended Islands, Festival dos Canais. 

2019       Deep Peeling ∙ Haifa, IL  Performance by Darya Efrat as part of the Social Bauhaus

2016       Studio Works ∙ New York, NY ∙ By Darya Efrat, Group Exhibition in Macy Art Gallery

2016       Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Sino-American Art Students Exhibition ∙ New York, NY ∙ By Darya Efrat, Group Exhibition in Jacob K. Javits Convention Center                    

2015       The Parallel Street ∙ Jerusalem, IL ∙ By Darya Efrat, Public Art Commission in collaboration with the Baaka Community Council

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS:

2023      Practicing Side by Side Stockholm, SE STHLM DANS Festival talk on artistic processes within performance and dance

2023      Matters of the Heart Stockholm, SE Film acquired by the Botkyrka municipality and presented in group exhibition

2022      Digestive Thinking Stockholm, SE Artistic Workshop by Laressa Dickey, Darya Efrat, Sara Kaaman and Alexis Steeves part of A Thinking Practice Symposium 

2022      WOODS ∙ Stockholm, SE ∙ STHLM DANS Festival performance b

2022      DEFOLDING Stockholm, SE Experimental group exhibition in collaboration with Artmovement

2022      Pomp + Circumdances Stockholm, SE co-hosted by POMP, Polisteatern,  Dages Juvelier Keates and Alexis Steeves

2021      EarthPulse ∙ Aveiro, PT  Installation by Joana Burd, João Dias – Oliveira, and Darya Efrat

2019-21 Cuecas em Oito ∙ Porto, PT  Performance by Ana Mula 

2020      AGITÁgua ∙ Águeda, PT  Performance by AGITlab

2019      Common Language ∙ Tel Aviv, IL  Performance by Michal Samama

2019      Mar em Festa ∙ Arcozelo, PT  Performance by Victor Abreu, Cupula Circus Village Festival

2018      Retrospective: Hospitality ∙ Tel Aviv, IL  Performer and producer in performance by Michal Samama, Diver Festival

2015      Life Cube Project ∙ Black Rock City, NV, USA ∙ By Scott Cohen, Public Art Commission at “Burning Man”

TEACHING/ FACILITATION/ HOSTING:

2023       The Making of Religious Practice: Body, Space, Material Stockholm, SE ∙  Course by Darya Efrat, led at Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies 

2022        Artistic Talk ílhavo, PT  Speaker at Circostrada’s second edition of DIVE 

2022        Our Symbolic Gestures Workshop Series ∙ Stockholm, SE ∙ Paideia – The European Institute for Jewish Studies

 

EDUCATION:

2023   Stockholm University of the Arts ∙ SE 

Master of Fine Arts with a Specializations in New Performative Practice, Choreography 

2019    INAC- Instituto Nacional de Artes do Circo ∙ PT

Acrobatics, Dance, and Theater           

2018    Inbal Pinto and Avshalom Pollak Dance Company ∙ IL

Repertoire and Technique Year-Long Training Workshop   

2017    Sandciel Circus School ∙ IL

Theater, Dance and Circus Arts

2016    Columbia University, School of General Studies ∙ NY, USA

Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Visual Arts. magna cum laude     

ADDITIONAL FORMATIONS/WORKSHOPS:

2020     Cross-disciplinary Dramaturgical Exploration of Public Space / FAi-AR (PT)

2020     Norman Tayor/ Jacque lecoq (PT)  

2019     MOOC Create in Public Space / FAi-AR (online)

2019     Matt Mulligan (PT)

2019     Winston Raynolds/ Yeknom movement (PT)

2019     Roberto Magro (PT)

2018     Yasmeen Godder Summer Intensive (IL)

2018     Applied Anatomy- 3-month course with Eyal Shemesh (IL)

2018     Leila McMillan/ Flying Low (IL)

2018     Galia Tzur/ Axis Syllabus (IL)

2018     Tom Weksler/ Movement Archery (IL)                                                                                            

 

RESIDENCIES:

2021        fAUNA | breeding habitat ∙ Famalicão, PT

2021        De Liceiras, Temporary Art Community ∙ Porto, PT

2020        Criatech- Criatividade Digital e Tecnologia ∙ Aveiro, PT

2019/20   AgitLAB ∙ Águeda, PT

2019        Lab852/Kamba ∙ Zagreb, HR

 

FELLOWSHIPS/AWARDS/HONORS

2019    i-Portunus Pilot Scheme: A Creative Europe program of the European Union to support short-term mobility of artists and culture professionals.

2016    Curators’ Selection, Cross-Cultural Dialogue: Sino-American Art Students Exhibition.       

2015    Ella Deloria Undergraduate Research Fellowship.                                                    

2014    Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship Fellow.                                              

Columbia University Dean’s List, Spring 2013, Spring 2014-Spring 2016.