Yalda Pakzad Afshar
Performance Artist and Pastry Maker
Yalda Pakzad Afshar is a performance artist and pastry maker who was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1984. She currently lives in Rome and works between Rome and Tehran. She graduated with a degree in music from Tehran University. She began her artistic journey with puppet performance and theatre music and has over ten years of experience in contemporary dance and performances, which started in the underground network in Iran. She is an independent artist, particularly focused on site-specific performances in recent years. Her latest projects are based on themes of home, hospitality, connection, and the phenomena of intimacy. She was chosen by the Impulstanz Vienna festival of contemporary dance in 2017 and has had performances in Iran, Bucharest, Vienna, Zagreb, and Rome.
