November 20, 2025 Soul Sounds November: Field Work

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Join us on Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 7 pm for “Field Work,” an emerging dance project by movement artist Hadar Ahuvia. She will be joined by artists Jesse Zaritt and Bria Bacon. (See bios below)

**PLEASE NOTE: As of 3 p.m. today, November 20, the RSVP form has been de-activated. Any guests who have not registered who want to attend tonight must be prepared to buy a ticket in the front lobby using a credit card. Thank you!**

Ahuvia proposes Ashkenazi davenen (prayer) as a model for collective being and interdependence. The soundscape of a morning service becomes a score for action — unmetered voices flow in unruly streams, pockets of heterophonic unison hold space for individual yearning within collective action; listening and moving bodies open a field for imagining diversity of relationships and capacious futures.

6:30 PM Reception
7:00 PM Concert

With deep gratitude to our series sponsors Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation; Suzanne Priebatsch; Susan and James Snider; Diane Troderman; and an anonymous donor.

Meet the Artists

Hadar Ahuvia is a movement and voice artist, ritual facilitator, educator and organizer. She grew up dancing and singing across four continents and is descended from three generations of immigrants. She was a 2019 “Dance Magazine 25 to Watch”, and a contributor to the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance. Hadar lives between Brooklyn and Boston where she is a rabbinical student at Hebrew College.

Jesse Zaritt’s work engages drawing as dancing — a visual and physical practice linked to dreaming, drafting, and materializing futures. His choreographic, performance and teaching practices research the ways in which excessive, contemplative and resistive dance practices change how movement arises in the world and how dancing participates in processes of social transformation. A series of solo works made between 2008 and 2025 interrogate attachments to Jewish ritual and community, seeking to queer dominant paradigms of familial/national belonging, religion, gender and sexuality.

Bria Bacon is a performing artist, predominantly trained in dance, holding passions and gifts in writing, theater, sound-making and singing. She has worked with Bebe Miller Company, Stefanie Batten Bland, ChameckiLerner, Wendell Gray II, Sally Silvers, Donna Uchizono, Johnnie Cruise Mercer, Stephen Petronio Company, and Kyle Marshall Choreography, as well as Beth Gill and Rachel Comey in NYFW and Company Christoph Winkler in Berlin. Currently, she is working with Sweat Variant (Okwui Okpokwasili and Peter Born), Saidiya Hartman, and Reggie Wilson/Fist and Heel Performance Group, among others.