Bio & Statement

photo by Andy Vernon-Jones

My work examines sound and movement within a shared perceptual, historical, and dramaturgical framework.  Since my initial beginnings as a composer, my challenge has been to find a format where I can work within music and dance and still maintain the autonomous integrity of each.  While each informs the other, they are not metaphoric manifestations--they literally are one another.   Given the confines of producing simultaneous sound and movement the voice has emerged as my most dynamic tool.  I am researching performance approaches that allow practices of the voice and the body to exist as the same organism.  Further, how can the the singing body live in a space between abstraction and narrative?  


Tatyana Tenenbaum is a choreographer and composer whose work has been presented by The Chocolate Factory Theater, Dance Theater Workshop,  Movement Research, Cabinet Magazine, Danspace Project, The Watermill Center, Center for Performance Research, Chez Buswhick, Pieter PASD, and AUNTS, among others.  She has received support from Dance Theater Workshop (2011 Fresh Tracks Recipient), Temple University (2014 Reflection: Response Recipient), the National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts, Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, Brooklyn Arts Council, and Espacio Abimental in Bogotá, Col0mbia.   She is a co-organizer of NY-based organization CLASSCLASSCLASS and former dance curator at The Tank (2007 - 2009) where she curated and produced The Raw and the Cooked Show, a forum for interdisciplinary improvisation. She has performed and collaborated with Yoshiko Chuma & The School of Hard Knocks, Daria Fain & Robert Kocik, Jennifer Monson, and Levi Gonzalez.  She received dual degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music.  

Read Buck Wanner's article "Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Modal Investigations"  for Culturebot.org