Choreographer Hadar Ahuvia interrogates the roots of the Israeli folk dances she grew up dancing with her mother. Facing stories about her grandparents, ‘kibbutznik’ settlers in Palestine in the 1930’s, she begins unpacking and confronting the appropriative origins of these inherited dances. Through this personal story, a larger weaving of artistic portraits emerges — Jewish, Israeli, and Palestinian dancers living in New York City question what is inherited and what we choose to carry forward
