Collaborators

Photo by Alex Escalante

Emily Moore (Thunder) is a Dance Artist and Somatic Educator. She is grateful to be deepening her voice through Tatyana's artistic process. In addition to performing with Tatyana Tenenbaum, Emily has performed in works by AnnekeHansen Dance, Koosil-ja and danceKUMIKO, projectLIMB, Margaret Paek, Rebecca Bryant, Lower Left, AdrianJevicki, Run Shayo, and Deborah Hay. Emily co-founded Altaer Education, altaer.org, and leads ecosomatic arts adventures in the wilderness. Emily maintains a private self-nourishment based teaching practice blending somatic arts. She is a graduate of NYU Tisch School of Dance.

Hadar Ahuvia (Thunder) is a performer and choreographer based in Brooklyn. She grew up in Israel and Florida, trained at the San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College.  She has worked for several New York based choreographers including Anna Sperber, Molly Poerstel, Jon Kinzel, Tatyana Tenenbaum, Kathy Westwater, Sara Rudner, and Jill Sigman.  Ahuvia has presented her own work at DTW/NYLA (2011-2012 Fresh Track Artist), EMPAC, The Chocolate Factory's Throw, CPR, Dixon Place, Aunts and Catch 59, and at the Eastport Art Center, Maine. 

Laurel Snyder (Thunder, Private Country), originally from Northern Virginia, is an independent Dance Artist and Educator  currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She received the majority of her physical training at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and various dance festivals throughout the USA and Europe. Professionally, Laurel has been privileged to collaborate/perform with  artists such as Kendra Portier/BANDportier, Paul Singh, Jacob Slominski, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Risa Jaroslow, Dante Brown/Warehouse Dance, Faye Driscoll and David Dorfman. Her choreography has been presented by spaces such as the Tank, H.T. Chen’s Newsteps series, Triskelion Arts, White Wave, Greenspace, Center for Performance Research (CPR), Chez Bushwick, Deltebre Danza (Spain) and Ponderosa (Germany). Laurel has been working with Tatyana Tenenbaum since 2011.


Talya Epstein (Private Country) is originally from Sharon, Massachusetts and now resides in Brooklyn. Her work has been shown through Danspace Projectʼs Draftwork series, Movement Research at Judson Church, AUNTS, Dixon Placeʼs Body Blend series, The Tank, Galapagos Art Space, Bushwick Starr, The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, among others. She is currently engaged in creative processes with Melinda Ring, Larissa Velez-Jackson, and Juliana May. Talya holds a BFA from The Boston Conservatory and currently attends Janet Panetta’s ballet class whenever possible.

Ezra Tenenbaum (Private Country) is a New York-based performer, music producer, and the frontman of jangle-pop new wave-tinged trio EZTV. Ezra also works for Found Sound Nation's 1beat fellowship program and has contributed to their projects at Blair Grocery in New Orleans, Bronx’s Horizons Juvenile Center, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, and Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School. He has performed at Glasslands, Baby's Alright, The Knitting Factory, Rough Trade, Death By Audio, as well as Dance New Amsterdam, the Center for Performance Research, and other independent NYC venues.

Odeya Nini (Private Country) is a Los Angeles based experimental vocalist and contemporary composer. At the locus of her interests are textural harmony, gesture, tonal animation, and the illumination of minute sounds, in works spanning chamber music to vocal pieces and collages of musique concrete. As a vocalist she is devoted to redefining vocal interpretation and song through an exploration of extended vocal techniques and how they communicate in conjunction with the physical body's language. Originally from NY, Odeya holds a BFA in vocal performance from the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, where she studied with vocalist Theo Bleckmann, and an MFA in composition from California Institute of the Arts. Most recently, her work has been presented at the Hammer museum in Los Angeles as part of the Wild Up residency, an LA based contemporary orchestra and collective. She has collaborated extensively with dancers, animators, film makers and theater directors. Her work has been performed at venues and festivals around the US and internationally from San Francisco to Odessa and Mongolia.




Peter Sciscioli (Private Country) is a Brooklyn-based performer, choreographer, educator and administrator whose work encompasses dance, music, and theater. Since 1997 he has been creating interdisciplinary performance works with a wide variety of collaborators for concert, site-specific and theater venues throughout the world. Peter has worked closely with composer/singer Meredith Monk since 2003, was a member of Jane Comfort and Company from 2004-2010 and performed with Daria Fain from 2007-2013. He is also a co-founder of The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, an ensemble dedicated to preserving Monk’s extraordinary musical legacy, and the founder of the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium. Peter has had the honor of performing in major venues in the U.S., Brazil, Eastern and Western Europe, and has taught extensively at Earthdance and universities throughout the country. He is currently working on a project with Serbian actress/vocalist Ana Sofrenovic, and serves as Projects Director for Meredith Monk/The House Foundation, the voice teacher for the Trinity/La Mama Urban Arts Semester NYC, and on the programming committee for Earthdance. www.petersciscioli.com

Madeline Best (Lighting Design, Private Country) designs dances, lighting and video and is the production manager at The Chocolate Factory.  Best graduated from Bennington College, grew up in Durham NC and currently lives in Long Island City, Queens.  She has designed lights for Neal Medlyn, Heather Kravas, Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith, Keely Garfield, Milka Djordjevich, Aki Sasamoto, Beth Gill (Bessie award winning), RoseAnne Spradlin, Luciana Achugar's PURO SESEO (Bessie award winning), and more.  Performance experience includes work on The Chocolate Factory Theater's Resident Projects Selective Memory and HotBox with Brian Rogers; multiple projects with Lauren Pett/Shaun Irons and with choreographer Juliana May/MayDance.


Adam Bach (Sound Engineer & Designer, Private Country) is a media artist, musician and composer based in New York. He grew up playing the electric and upright bass and studied classical and jazz. His experiments with electronics and sound environments are influenced by the western Massachusetts landscape. Adam holds a BA in Philosophy from the University of Massachusetts and a post-bac in Photography from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has taught sound design at the University of Richmond, Virginia, the Roundhouse in D.C. and as a guest lecturer at MassArt in Boston.  adambach.com

Anne Krauss (Scenic Design/Birds, Private Country) is a mixed- media visual artist, writer and psychotherapist. Creative projects have included fiber arts work for film, theater and television.  Anne currently resides in Amherst, Massachussetts where she manages a counseling practice specializing in work with artists, writers, and musicians (artsforthepeople.com).

Stephen Schaffenberger (Scenic Design/Mountains, Private Country) is an artist living and working out of Brooklyn, New York.  Stephen enjoys producing scenic work and has been professionally involved in the industry for the past year and a half.  Additionally, he is tackling an MFA in Illustration at the Fashion Institute of Technology.

B&W Photos by Andy Vernon-Jones.