Avery Gerhardt (she/her) is an independent choreographer and freelance performer from Houston, Texas.

She was born in Rockport, Maine, a former home to the Wabanaki Peoples, in 1997.

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Avery began her pre-professional training at the High School for Performing and Visual Arts and later graduated from the Boston Conservatory. She also pursued studies at Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, IT, and obtained a BFA in Contemporary Performance and Composition in May of 2020.

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Her long-term research project “loadbearing” (withstanding the weight carried by a structure), stimulates and situates itself in accordance with the ecofeminist movement. The project began in 2019 with collaborators Talia Stern and Tshedzom Tingkhye and serves as the base for her current documentary project, F.F.P.S.

Avery has created and directed three evening-length works; 1134: A Study on Loadbearing (2020), What's the Point (2018), and COCKEYED (2018). Original works How does it feel knowing you will remember my face for the rest of your life (2017) premiered at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Falling by the Wayside (2016) at MATCH Midtown Arts Center in Houston. Her latest solo work, Massa (2019), premiered in Arezzo and was most recently performed by India Hobbs at Krakòw Dance Festival, Poland. Avery is honored to include the acknowledgements of the arts communities in awards such as the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant (2021), the City of Boston’s Arts and Culture Opportunity Fund (2021), The Boston Foundation’s Next Steps for Boston Dance Grant (2022) and a Mass Cultural Council Fellowship (2022). She currently remains in Boston, where she continues to build a body of repertoire, alongside her practice as performer, dramaturg, archivist, and writer.