Yara Travieso is a Cuban-Venezuelan-American anti-disciplinary artist, educator, & community collaborator working in performance, theater, dance, film, video, protest, & ritual. Rooted in Latin American womanist/queer practices of kaleidoscopic embodiment, Travieso embraces “story-listening”, as an alternative to “storytelling”. She is a 2023-2025 Resident Artist with NYC’s Chelsea Factory, a NYSCA Film & Media grant recipient, a United States Artist Fellow, a Creative Capital recipient, and a winner of NALAC Grant via The Ford Foundation. She is currently on faculty at her alma mater (BFA 09’), The Juilliard School & a recipient of Juilliard’s 2023 John Erskine Faculty Prize. Her productions have been featured in NYC’s Park Avenue Armory, Lincoln Center, Performance Space NY, The Public Theater, The Knockdown Center, The High Line, The COIL Festival, Opéra National de Lorraine France, New World Symphony Center, & EMPAC among others. Her film work has been presented with Film at Lincoln Center, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, PBS, SXSW, NY Latino Film Festival, El Museo, Museum of The Moving Image & commissioned by Google & Hermes among others. Travieso co-founded the Borscht Film Festival in 2005 and co-ran it until 2010 when it was named “the weirdest film festival on the planet” by IndieWire. She has led talks and lectures with: The Ford Foundation, The Park Avenue Armory, MoMa, BAM, NYU, National YoungArts Foundation (‘05 alum), Fordham, The New School, UnionDocs, and Ghetto Film School, among others. She is the recipient of residencies such as: EMPAC, PS122 RAMP, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, BRICLab, STREB, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and The Bessie Schonberg AIR, among others.
