"Confronting romanticized stories about her grandparents, settlers in 1930s Palestine, Ahuvia embarks on a personal journey to reckon with the founding mythologies and transgressions of Zionism. Through her work, a web of artistic portraits emerges - Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City grapple with the questions of what we inherit and what we embody to carry forward."
"Hadar Ahuvia and Zaquia Salinas will be facilitating embodied grounding before and brave conversation after the film screening. "The film by choreographer-turned-filmmaker Tatyana Tenenbaum not only contextualizes Israeli folk dance within the cultural history of Israel and Palestine, but also contends with the embodied performance of culpability and appropriation...The resulting film is a complicated and thorny portrait of dance as a form of cultural expression that cannot exist without context." - Carly Mattox, Documentary Magazine"
Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of Israeli folk dances she learned with her mother in the U.S. She confronts romanticized family stories about grandparents who were settlers in 1930s Palestine and pursues a personal reckoning with Zionist founding mythologies and transgressions. The work assembles a web of artistic portraits featuring Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers in New York City who grapple with questions of inheritance and embodiment. Hadar Ahuvia and Zaquia Salinas facilitate embodied grounding before and brave conversation after a screening. The project situates dance within cultural history and examines culpability, appropriation, and how dance carries context across generations.
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