Wednesday, November 16th at 8pm ET, choreographer and composer Tatyana Tenenbaum continues her 2022 ISSUE residency with Garment of the Interior, a first public sharing of a new project that emerges from a decade of research into the continuum between voice and movement. The performance will take place at Brooklyn Music School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Notes from Tatyana Tenenbaum on Garment of the Interior:
Vibration anchors us in the practice of atunement and witnessing. Through the channeling of multiple lineages, our work seeks to make visceral and audible the complex terrains of our bodies as we construct inner and outer landscapes.
Our collective breath emerges from the utterances of he’harim (in Hebrew, the mountains) and continues through incantations that sculpt the space. We arrive deeper through the poetry of our bodies—creating dance from the smallest vibrations of a hum organically unfurling into full-bodied action, stimulating space with textile manipulation, and re-configuring our voices with live electronics.
Directed by Tatyana Tenenbaum, co-created by Maria Bauman, Marisa Clementi, rebeca medina and Myssi Robinson.
Support for the fall rehearsals of Garment of the Interior was made possible by a YoungArts Microgrant. This project will continue beyond the ISSUE Project Room residency, including through residencies at Oberlin Conservatory of Music and Lawrence University in 2023.
Choreographer/composer Tatyana Tenenbaum employs breath, voice, fascia and musculature to excavate spaces of memory, power and transformation. Her work sits at the juncture of experimental music and dance and has been described as “rich polyphony” (The New Yorker) and “transcending the fraught history between utterance and stance through an exacting inquiry” (Critical Correspondence). She has been commissioned and presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Temple University, Movement Research, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, and Danspace Project, and Pliegues y Despliegues festival in Bogotá, Colombia. In collaboration with curator Lydia Bell and artist Jasmine Hearn she co-organized the collective terrain/s platform on voice and body at Danspace Project. She has performed with and learned from Yoshiko Chuma & the School of Hard Knocks, Daria Faïn and Robert Kocik, Jennifer Monson/iLAND, Emily Johnson/CATALYST, Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born, and Hadar Ahuvia, among others. Tatyana and Hadar received a 2021 New Jewish Culture Fellowship for their collaborative work. Tatyana sees her multidisciplinary work within a lineage of musical theater; a cultural site of assimilation, invention, violence, and resiliency for her Jewish ancestors who settled in New York City/Lenapehoking.
rebeca medina. Improviser. Dancer. Choreographer. Craniosacral Therapist. Admirer of plants and disciple of their secrets. Interested in the magic of time and the power of community. Addicted to interdisciplinary collaborations. Curious about slow rhythms. Immigrant from Bogotá, Colombia. Her choreographic questions and ideas about interdisciplinarity led her to obtain a master’s degree in theater and live arts from the National University of Colombia in 2011. Since then she has been collaborating with theater companies, choreographers, video artists, poets, photographers, musicians and herbalists. Some of her favorite collaborations have been with Agnes Borinsky, Dai Jian, Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks, Sister Sylvester, Megan Byrne, Alex Zaccarello, Miriam Parker and Tatyana Tenenbaum.
Myssi Robinson is a Bessie award winning performer and maker from Richmond, VA, land of the Powhatan peoples. She has interpreted many dances. Her own art practice involves creative archiving and mixed-media marking beside experiments in listening and spatial design. Intuition and empathy play with maximalist instinct to give life to the art that she makes. It's always whispering may we all heal. Gratitude to Carolyn Johnson and Darrin Robinson for her life and abilities to create freely within it.
Maria Bauman (she/her) is a Brooklyn-based artist and community organizer from Jacksonville, FL. She creates bold and honest artworks for her company MBDance, based on physical and emotional power, insistence on equity, and fascination with intimacy. In particular, Bauman’s dance work centers the non-linear and linear stories and bodies of queer people of color. Before starting MBDance in 2009, MBDance, Bauman danced with Urban Bush Women and was associate artistic director of the company as well as director of education and community engagement. She has both learned much from and added much to UBW's Entering, Building and Exiting community methodology. She has also danced jumatau poe & Donte Beacham, Nia Love/Blacksmith's Daughter, jill sigman/thinkdance, Tatyana Tenenbaum and apprenticed with the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Bauman was recently recognized with a 2021 Bessie Award for Outstanding Production for her choreographic work on Saul Williams's The Motherboard Suite, and this follows the Bessie she won in 2017 for Outstanding Performance with the Black dance improvisation group Skeleton Architecture. Currently, she is an Urban Bush Women Choreographic Center 2.0 Fellow, as well as a member of the Bessies Selection Committee and a mentor with Queer Art Mentorship. Bauman is also a community organizer and co-founder of ACRE (Artists Co-creating Real Equity) which is built on the foundation of The People's Institute for Survival and Beyond's anti-racist community organizing principles. She is a core trainer with The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond. Additionally, she is part of the Dancing While Black family/organizing group. Organizing to undo racism informs her artistic work; those two areas are each ropes in a Double-dutch that is her holistic practice. Bauman graduated cum laude in Dance and English with a minor in Black Studies from the Florida State University in 2002. In 2017, she graduated from Temple University with an MFA in Dance. Since 2001 she has studied and practiced Capoeira, an African Brazilian martial art. Mbdance.net
Marisa Clementi is a mover, maker, and vocalist whose artistic practice layers pop, postmodern, and flamenco traditions with plant medicine, writing, illustration, and nourishing food. She regularly collaborates with Storm Thomas/ Theater but Dance and Tatyana Tenenbaum, and is currently a part of Kathy Westwater's PARK Cycle 2. Marisa graduated cum laude from Dartmouth College in 2005 with a degree in Music, and earned her MFA in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College in 2013. She is also an Ayurvedic practitioner and herbalist.
