ISSUE Project Room
Friday, April 10, 2026 tickets
ISSUE Project Room celebrates the 20th Anniversary of its Artists-In-Residence (AIR) program throughout 2026 with performances by current residents and returning alumni. This anniversary season highlights AIRs whose work reflects the ongoing evolution of a much broader community of experimental artists who have helped shape ISSUE for over twenty years.
Friday, April 10th, at 8pm, ISSUE Project Room in partnership with The Center for New Jewish Culture presents choreographer/composer and 2022 ISSUE AIR Tatyana Tenenbaum’s Night transits Day. The piece explores the art of dreaming in waking life—to conjure a future within the present.
Notes from Tatyana Tenenbaum on Night transits Day:
In 2023 I experienced a string of recurrent early miscarriages, whispers so loud they completely shook my foundation but nearly invisible to everyone else.
at the risk of marring myself
I share this embodied reality
to make visible legible
as a reluctant political gesture
because I know I am not alone
Those of us who suffer these losses wait live in shadow, and the darkness becomes an unrequited dream space fertile with vision, symbolism, magic, witchcraft. Our dreams become the liberatory space, Night transits Day.
I have been working on a daily practice of song summoning through sensual language—a framework I once used to excavate words through sounds, to compose work through body and voice. It is now a vessel for inhabiting the moment, as a child would grasp for language with a wide open mouth and a fully integrated being:
“I want”
“I need”
I let language drip off my lips, my mouth, my gestures—inhabiting me in the darkness, inviting the meaning to find me: a divination.
This solo practice is collaged with the vestiges of a group process (formerly titled Garment of the Interior initiated through an ISSUE Project Room residency in 2022 and further nurtured through a residency at Bennington College in 2024). I nest my solo practice within a group exploration. These brilliant artists and collaborators, Maria Bauman, Marisa Clementi, Myssi Robinson and Leah Wilks have held me throughout the years, weaving their own desires and womb journeys into the field. This performance is an evolving record of where I have been, and where I am going.
References and tomes include: Undertorah: An Earth-Based Kabbalah of Dreams by Jill HammerI’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir by Hala Alyan
Work on paper by Myssi Robinson and Tatyana Tenenbaum