Everything You Have Is Yours: Yiddish Dance Workshop & Film Screening

Everything You Have is Yours: Yiddish Dance Workshop and Film Screening
Sunday, July 12
3:30-5PM: Hardar Ahuvia will lead a Yiddish dance workshop.
6-8 PM: Screening of Everything You Have is Yours followed by a talkback with Hadar Ahuvia, the lead subject of the film
Homewood Friends Meeting: 3017 N. Charles Street, Baltimore, MD 21218
Suggested Ticket Prices
Workshop: $18-36
Film Screening: $18-36
Workshop/Film Screening Combo: $32-50
No one turned away for lack of funds

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
An intro to repertoire of Ashkenazi dances of the Jews of Eastern Europe, preserved and transformed by Yiddishists in the US. This workshop will include space for improvisation to explore relationship to music rhythms and the dances' continued evolution. Freylechs, zhoks, khussidle, bulgars, roots based repertoire to bring to your next joyous diasporic Jewish gathering. Hadar has studied Yiddish dance with Avia Moore, Michael Alpert, and Sarah Meyerson. She collaborated with Jenny Romaine and Rosza Lang Levistky and the Klezkanada 2015 Performance Workshop on accessible seated versions of the dances. People with all levels of experience and mobility welcome.

FILM DESCRIPTION
In Everything You Have Is Yours, choreographer Hadar Ahuvia explores 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 we choose to carry forward.

Hadar Ahuvia is a dance artist, Jewish educator and ritual leader. Raised in Israel/Palestine and the US/Turtle Island, she is crafting a diasporic, Israeli identity beyond Zionism. Ahuvia trained at Orlando Ballet Theater, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. Ahuvia was named by Dance Magazine ‘25 to Watch in 2019’ and received a Bessie nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer. Her work deconstructing Israeli folk dance has been supported by Movement Research, Baryshnikov Art Center, Yaddo, New Music USA, Brooklyn Arts Council, Art Stations Foundations, Danspace Project, and Gibney Dance. Ahuvia has shared her research at the Association of Jewish Studies, ASU, City College, Whitman College, and Yale University. Her essay “Choreographing a Radical Diasporic Israeliness” is featured in the “Oxford Handbook on Jewishness in Dance.” Ahuvia also performs with Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group and started rabbinical school in fall 2022.