Everything You Have is Yours

Director Tatyana Tenenbaum, producer Brighid Greene, and participant Hadar Ahuvia expected to attend 

In this sensitively crafted documentary, choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, Zionist ‘kibbutznik’ settlers in Palestine in the 1930’s, she begins a personal endeavor unpacking and confronting the appropriative origins of this inherited dance. Through this vulnerable, personal story a larger weaving of powerful artistic portraits emerge— Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City question what is inherited and what to choose to carry forward.

Director Tatyana Tennenbaum conveys the power of dance as an embodied medium for grieving, healing, resistance and reclamation. Everything You Have Is Yours honors these powerful associations, reminding us of our shared humanity and the need for collective liberation. 

Please also join the filmmakers at the Creative Interventions: The Role of Art in Healing Political Division panel on Sunday, February 23 at 1:30pm for an extended conversation.

West Coast Premiere

Tatyana Tenenbaum is a multidisciplinary artist, performer and first-time documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. Her performance work explores embodied lineages and relationality through practices of voice and movement and has been described as a “rich polyphony” by The New Yorker. She has been presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, ISSUE Project Room, Movement Research and New Jewish Culture Fellowship, among others. Through a persistent side hustle as a videographer she has documented the work of 100+ artists, notably through her years-long relationship with Baryshnikov Arts Center as well as through the ecosystem of independent artists in NYC. Tatyana has learned to move, listen and collaborate by working with artists such as Yoshiko Chuma, Jennifer Monson, Daria Faïn, Emily Johnson/CATALYST, Hadar Ahuvia and countless brilliant peers. She looks forward to re-nurturing her live performance practice after the endlessly growthful experience birthing Everything You Have Is Yours.

Hadar Ahuvia is a dance artist and Jewish educator and ritual leader. 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 holds a Bessie nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, a Dance Magazine “25 to Watch” in 2019, and is the subject of a forthcoming documentary by Tatyana Tenenbaum, Everything You Have Is Yours. Her choreographic credits include NYLA/DTW, Danspace Project, 14th St Y, Gibney Dance, Temuna, Malta Festival, and La Mama. Her work has been supported by residencies at Yaddo, Movement Research, Brooklyn Arts Council, Art Stations Foundation, Mana Contemporary, and Baryshnikov Arts Center.  As a performer, she has had the honor of dancing with Sara Rudner, Reggie Wilson/ Fist and Heel Performance Group, Donna Uchizono, Jill Sigman, Kathy Westwater, Trisha Brown and Lucinda Child’s Dance, and co-creating and collaborating with Shira Eviatar and Tatyana Tenenbaum. Ahuvia has shared her research at AJS, ASU, UM, City College, Whitman College, and Yale, Hofstra. She is a currently a rabbinical student, an organizer with Rabbis for Ceasefire, a service leader at Kolot Chayeinu in Brooklyn, and artist in residence at RUAH Community Health where she teaches contemporary approaches to Yiddish dance.