About

Hadar Ahuvia (she/her) is a cross-disciplinary artist, and Jewish educator and facilitator. She creates performances, workshops, and rituals that forefront the role of the body in political, social and spiritual action. Her essay “Joy Vey” on choreographing a diasporic Israeli identity beyond Zionism is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance.

Ahuvia was named a Dance Magazine “25 to Watch in 2019”, and her work “Everything you have is yours?” earned her a 2018 Bessie nomination for Outstanding "Breakout" Choreographer, and inspired the documentary film of the same name by Tatyana Tenenbaum which had its US premiere at DOC NYC in November 2024. See EverythingYouHaveIsYoursFilm.com

Ahuvia has been an artist in residence at DTW/NYLA (2012 Fresh Tracks Artist) Movement Research (2015 AIR), the 14th St. Y (2016 LABA Fellow), Art Stations Foundation through MR’s GPS program, Mana Contemporary, Yaddo, and Baryshnikov Arts Center. Her work has received support from the Brooklyn Arts Council, New Music USA, and a New Jewish Culture Fellowship, and Mass Cultural Council, and she was twice a finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship. Her work has been been presented at DTW/NYLA, the 14th St Y, Art Stations Foundations (Poland), the Jewish Museum of Maryland, Tmuna Theater, The James Gallery, Danspace Project, Gibney Dance, La Mama, and ODC SF among others.

Ahuvia trained at the Orlando Ballet Theater, Lines Ballet, The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and studied dance and religion at Sarah Lawrence College. Ahuvia is grateful to have worked with artists Sara Rudner, Jill Sigman, Donna Uchizono, Molly Poerstel, Anna Sperber, Jon Kinzel, Stuart Shugg, Kathy Westwater, Tatyana Tenenbaum, the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Lucinda Childs Dance, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group. Her works include collaborations with Jaffa based artists Shira Eviatar, Tatyana Tenenbaum, and Avi Amon.

Ahuvia has lectured and led workshops sharing her research at the Association of Jewish Studies, Arizona State University, Queens College, City College, Whitman College, Hofstra University, Brandeis, Northwestern and Yale. She is a Student Rabbi at Kolot Chayeinu, a rabbinic presence for the New Jewish Culture Fellowship, and organizes with Rabbis for Ceasefire.