https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/home daily 1.0 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/d2cb924d-f67a-4e5e-8cce-5022f4626a2b/Aviya+biophoto.jpeg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/939f1bf3-2fba-4b7d-ba64-e3c0984669df/Sable63.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/319bfcd9-534f-4dbb-978c-6e0e71c6284b/Aviya+motion3+_+2.28.19+Stephen+Delas+Heras.JPG Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/cb9289a2-176f-48b1-8a31-a9ace419ab17/Sable61.jpg Home https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/education daily 0.75 2022-11-18 https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/about daily 0.75 2022-11-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/9f0878a3-087c-4bd2-8434-5c3ff0fda674/Screen+Shot+2022-11-18+at+11.29.26+AM.png About Aviya (she/her) - I am a multidisciplinary performance artist exploring intersections and waves of inspiration between movement, autobiography, comedy, sculptural installation, and Jewish ritual. I am grounded in my New York-Jewish ancestry and its reverberations into community-based activism, joke-work, and fierce love. Within my practice, I challenge myself to explore ritual and tradition in a contemporary, diasporic, queer, apocalypse-surviving, and anti-racist context. My creative practice is also informed by my teaching practice with young artists, primarily age 2-11 years old. Through working with children, I have learned to hold the bountiful harmony between seriousness and play. My performance life began as a member of the Paul Taylor Teen Ensemble, performing throughout NYC under the direction of Reagan Wood. I have trained nationally and internationally, most notably with David Zambrano (NYC), Laura Aris (Vienna), Klever Viera (Quito, Ecuador), Kevin Williamson (LA), Ronit Ziv (LA), and Doug Varone & Dancers (NYC). I have performed in collaboration with Carmen Caceres DanceAction, Yehuda Hyman’s Mystical Feet Company, and The New Shul. I was a 2021 Artist in Residence at The Sable Project and a 2022 EmergeNYC Fellow. https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/contact daily 0.75 2024-09-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/f1ee1e7b-fa7b-4831-b03e-3660c37420b6/IMG_0978.JPG Contact - Contact Aviya is wearing a white jumpsuit, and leans over a table while lighting a candle. There is a fresh-baked challah next to the candle. https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/arts-admin-1 daily 0.75 2022-01-10 https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/performance daily 0.75 2021-12-31 https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/performance/other-featured-works monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/5abf9e79-c504-42e1-813a-22d345da6aeb/IMG_5594.jpg Performance - Other Featured Works Photo by Stephen Delas Heras https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/298d9044-6555-492f-968a-bbb8af42c9d6/Aviya+movement_2.28.19+Stephen+Delas+Heras.jpg Performance - Other Featured Works Photo by Stephen Delas Heras https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/performance/mikvah monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/939f1bf3-2fba-4b7d-ba64-e3c0984669df/Sable63.jpg Performance - Mikvah Photo by Claire Beauchamp @ The Sable Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/cb9289a2-176f-48b1-8a31-a9ace419ab17/Sable61.jpg Performance - Mikvah Photo by Claire Beauchamp @ The Sable Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/158d4b21-ba90-4d49-a36c-e5687946b29d/Sable64.jpg Performance - Mikvah Photo by Claire Beauchamp @ The Sable Project https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/performance/tree-talk monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/1640973552912-3WMA4HQOH3RMQICMTKKX/IMG_9507%2B%25281%2529.jpg Performance - Tree Talk Photo by Moira Neve @ The Sable Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/338d9b65-5406-4881-a577-d21493ffa1c8/IMG_0353.jpeg Performance - Tree Talk Photo by Moira Neve @ The Sable Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/4074e3da-b677-4fda-9f2e-8e831ceca3be/IMG_9223.jpg Performance - Tree Talk Photo by Moira Neve @ The Sable Project https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/1640973616796-KRUUJZPP9UK2F2UPWV3R/IMG_0037.jpg Performance - Tree Talk Photo by Moira Neve @ The Sable Project https://www.aviyahernstadt.com/performance/gelilah monthly 0.5 2021-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/300ec027-f8b7-4ffd-a8c2-22996127bdd8/P2010867.JPG Performance - Gelilah Photo by Daniel Davila https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/1087a27b-fbd4-426d-97e3-2be48d4a61af/P2010759+%281%29.JPG Performance - Gelilah Photo by Daniel Davila https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/31a3ee67-927c-45ca-9a85-1efc286d3c2e/P2010922.JPG Performance - Gelilah Photo by Daniel Davila https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61cf32b834d7f96c9c9b78b2/ae0e908a-2ddb-42a7-be87-0bebc32d716d/Screen+Shot+2021-12-31+at+12.18.11+PM.png Performance - Gelilah Photo by Aviya Hernstadt