Collaborations with Tatyana Tenenbaum
photo by Maria Baranova
Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum (NYC/Lenapehoking) are interdisciplinary performance makers who have been supporting each other’s work since 2014. Their individual works have taken different pathways toward examining their Jewish histories- they write “Together we are interrogating and re-casting our cultural pageantries and embodied rituals, composing new prosody for this moment.” They are recipients of the 2021 New Jewish Culture Fellowship and have received support for their collaboration from Roulette Intermedium, Mount Tremper Arts, the Center at West Park, La Mama Moves!, Earthdance, and Issue Project Room.
Choreographer/composer Tatyana Tenenbaum’s work employs breath, voice, fascia and musculature to excavates spaces of memory, power and transformation. Her ancestors wove their voices into the tuneful stories of the Broadway stage. She draws from this lineage as well as work with Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Faïn, Jennifer Monson, Levi Gonzalez, Emily Johnson/CATALYST, Andy Luo and lily bo shapiro, and the UNDOING AND DOING collective. Her work has been presented at venues including The Chocolate Factory, Brooklyn Studios for Dance, and Danspace Project where she co-curated the 2019 collective terrain/s platform on voice and choreography with Lydia Bell and Jasmine Hearn in conversation with Samita Sinha and Tendayi Kuumba.
Long tones in bewilderment (Jewish Museum of Maryland 2023)
Long tones in bewilderment presented as part of Material/Inheritance curated by Leora Fridman
photo by Sid Keiser
Long tones in the days of omer (Issue Project Room 2022)
Long tones in the days of omer takes place during the 49 days of the Omer, a symbolic accounting between the spring and the summer harvests. A concert of original music inspired by our embodied vocal research and Ashkenazi jewish modes and melodies, reverberating in harmony and dissonance.
Together we are re-casting our cultural pageantries and embodied rituals, composing new prosody for this moment. We have often relied on journaling back and forth to one another. It helps fill in the gaps of time. It helps us find new tones in our conversation--and sometimes it results as literal text or song in our work. This concert is a live dialogue.”
photo by Lucas Lind courtesy of Issue Project Room
Prayer of the Morning (La Mama Moves! 2021)
Prayer of the Morning 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. We 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
photo by Maria Baranova
Past Showings
La Mama Moves! Dances Festival Curated by Nikki Paraiso May 13-15, 2021, On-Demand thru June, 2021
Hadar Ahuvia and Tatyana Tenenbaum led workshops based on their shared research as New Jewish Culture Fellows in January 2021
The Center at Westpark Residency & Showing January 20 – February 2, 2020
Mount Tremper’s Watershed Laboratory curated by Movement Research (part of the culmination of Tatyana’s 2017-18 Artist-in-Residence along with Leslie Cuyjet and Lorene Bouboushian), June 2019.
Dance ROULETTE curated by Jennifer Lafferty, February 2016