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:
2024-5 Porøs ∙ DE, PT, FR, HR ∙ Outdoor performance in collaboration with Mathilde Roy
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 by Clarice Lima, Catarina Saraiva, Nina Fajdiga & Aline Bonamin
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:
2025 AIR Givat Haviva ∙ Givat Haviva, IL
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
2023-25 Hand to Hand: A European Cooperation Project
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.