Yara Travieso

Yara Travieso (BFA ’09, dance) is a Brooklyn-based director, filmmaker, writer, and choreographer. She is a 2019 Arison United States Artist Fellow, Creative Capital recipient, and winner of the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures Grant via the Ford Foundation and the Surdna Foundation. Following the Latin American tradition of her mother and grandmothers, Travieso brings to light invisible worlds through her own experiential female-centric stories.

Her productions have been featured in Park Avenue Armory’s Drill Hall, Lincoln Center, EMPAC, BRIC Arts Media, Performance Space NY, Joe’s Pub, the High Line, and Vizcaya Museum, among others. Her film works have been featured at Film at Lincoln Center, SXSW, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Miami Film Festival, and Museum of the Moving Image, and commissioned by Hermes of Paris, GQ, Glamour, and I Am An Immigrant, among others. Her 2018 production, El Ciclón, took over the YoungArts campus, transforming a Miami city block into a swamp horror feminist film set.

From 2005 to 2010, Travieso cofounded and ran Miami’s Borscht Film Festival. She is the recipient of a number of residencies including at P.S. 122 RAMP (2016), Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (2015), BRICLab (2014), STREB Lab (2014), Tribeca Performing Arts Center (2013), and Bessie Schonberg (2010). Travieso is also a teaching artist at Juilliard.