Everything You Have Is Yours
Feature documentary (90 minutes)
Tënk (World Premiere) Sept-Oct 2024
DOCNYC (U.S. Premiere) Nov 15, 2024
Cucalorus (Southern Premiere) Nov 22, 2024
Produced by Brighid Greene
Directed by Tatyana Tenenbaum
Inspired by the story of Hadar Ahuvia
Edited by Colin Nusbaum, Sasha Perry, and Tatyana Tenenbaum
Score by Avi Amon
Consulting Producer Tracie Holder
Cast— Hadar Ahuvia, Mor Mendel, Ze’eva Cohen, Gil Sperling, lily bo shapiro, Freedom Dabka Group, zavé martohardjono, Shirly Bahar
NYC-based choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother in the US. Facing romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in Palestine in the 1930s, she begins a personal endeavor to confront the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. A web of artistic portraits emerges—Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City question what is inherited and what we embody to carry forward.
Our story takes place in the present. The ongoing occupation and dispossession of Palestinians continues to be taboo within US mainstream media and amongst politicians— Democrats and Republicans alike. At the same time, with the growth of white nationalism, antisemitism is on the rise. This film is a fearless portrait of a generation’s disillusionment with Zionism at a time of urgent reckoning.
Supported by DCTV Lab, IFP Lab Spotlight on Documentaries, Scottish Documentary Institute’s Edinburgh Pitch, Dance Films Association Production Grant, Snug Harbor Artist Residency, and New Music USA’s Reel Change Film Fund
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I bring my artistry as a choreographer, vocalist and performer to my work as a documentarian for live performance. My passion is to capture the visceral nature of performance while translating the felt aspects of choreography that include space, time, proximity, dimensionality and intimacy. When working in observational settings, I bring my awareness, collaborative ethics and consent practices into the room. My clients have included Baryshnikov Arts Center, Time Square Arts , Composers Now, The Cunningham Trust, Art Matters Foundation, Franklin Street Works, and countless independent choreographers in New York City. During the pandemic I created several screen dance collaborations with artists at Baryshnikov Arts Center including: Kyle Marshall (STELLAR), River L. Ramirez (GhostFolk), Holland Andrews (Museum of Calm) and The Merce Cunningham Trust (In Conversation With Merce) featuring Cunningham’s 1972 Landrover performed by Chalvar Montiero and Jacquelin Harris in conversation with work by Kyle Abraham and Liz Gerring. The following portfolio samples are some of the artists I have been honored to witness:
Tere O’Connor Rivulets Excerpt (2023)
Documentation of live performance at Baryshnikov Arts Center.
zavé martohardjono ay.eye.ay (2021)
believe what they say that they intend to destroy us and fall back into your mind’s eye
From zavé: “This film reflects how dance in 2020 for me became a solitary ritual, so private I finally felt comfortable dancing in the open air for no one. My dances for no one happened spontaneously, impulsively on my roof or in the park by the river during night walks. They enabled communication with my ancestors and moved me through grief, confusion, and rage about the times we are surviving. The improvised dance and poem in this film, captured on camera by Tatyana, blends with footage I took of my altar and videos from my phone of wide skies I’ve watched from parks and beaches in Munsee Lenape/Canarsie land aka Brooklyn and snowy creeks I’ve walked along in Munsee Lenape land hours north of the city during the pandemic. Landscapes that facilitated reflection and reckoning.”
Jeffrey Gibson She Never Dances Alone (2020)
Documentation of Jeffrey Gibson’s multiscreen work in Times Square, as well as interviews with Gibson and his collaborators for a live event.
Dorothée Munyaneza Artist Profile (2017)
Resident artist Dorothée Munyaneza in conversation at BAC.
A walk in the Garden: Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi (2016)
Composers Now Creative Residents Tonia Ko and Yasuno Miyauchi discuss their collaborative work at the Pocantico Center of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund in the fall of 2016.
North Shore (2015)
Documentation of live performance by Carey Denniston and Ander Mikalson. Performed by Nicole Ohr and Ryan Rockmore on August 14, 2015 at Moiety in Brooklyn, NY.
More work available on the Baryshnikov Arts Center Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/bacnyc where I am the resident videographer