You and I (working title) is an equal collaboration between Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum that makes space for repairing our Jewishness within the ongoing wreckage of colonialism. It is a prying open of our Jewish diasporic histories and ‘folklore’. For Hadar it is the collectivist Zionist project and its culture, song and dance; for Tatyana, her grandparents work as Broadway producers, sewing seeds of the American dream through musical theater.  We are examining how our Ashkenazi families participated in projects that, though seemingly disparate, share an ideological root—the acceptance of the supremacy of the West and its advance. You and I searches for imagined evolutions without rupture, for poetry with weight, for a future grounded in past insight, for foresight.

Music, Text, Choreography and Performance by Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum

We are growing our collective work not as a corollary to our individual projects, but as a necessary sustenance. We have been serving as special eyes and ears for one another since 2014. Along the way we have amassed an archive of prose, letters, poetry, song, and observational filming that has woven its way into our individual works. We have shared generously and expansively, rejecting entrenched narratives of competition and scarcity in search of a collective liberation.