*I will be teaching next at Movement Research in June 2027*
“When I first started working with Tatyana Tenenbaum, I had no idea just how deep and personal this project was. To throw shame out the window and move with all the muscle memories you carry. Experiencing vibrations in one’s own body, in others, in your feet, and in the environment intuitively all felt surreal.” -Oberlin College Winter Term Student
Photos by Anna Maynard, School for Contemporary Dance & Thought
Past Workshops
Movement Research’s Sounding Body series (Ongoing)
Temple University, Philly
Oberlin College, OH
Lawrence University, WI
University of the Arts, Philly
Sarah Lawrence College, NY
WildHeart Interdisciplinary Arts Lab, Wallkill NY
School for Contemporary Dance & Thought, Northampton MA
Earthdance Moving Arts Lab, Plainfield MA
Trinity/La MaMA Program, NYC
CLASSCLASSCLASS, NYC
OFFERINGS
“Revelatory Vibration” Workshop (2-3 hours)
In this core material culled from decades of personal excavation, I guide participants in mapping our voices through the energetic and vibrational pathways of our bodies. We will utilize gentle touch as a feedback mechanism for sensing and feeling the movement potential of vocal sound. This work may yield wild movement potential— or something more interior, yet vast! This workshop is geared toward those excited to expand possibilities of a moving-singing body, and for those who don’t yet know how to get started. We will regard each body as its own expert, making room for doubt and interrogation along the way. How can we amplify and tune our connection to movement, space, and one another through shared vibrations? This research is informed by encounters with Roy Hart work via Jonathan Hart Makwaia, Contact Improvisation forms including Nancy Stark Smith’s poetic framings, Daria Faïn’s synthesis of Qigong and phonemic research, Emilie Conrad’s writing on fluid resonance and generational healing through Continuum, The Feldenkrais Method, Biodynamic Craniosacral work and other somatic and postmodern dance lineages. Participants are always welcome to use imagination or utilize self-touch for any exercises. We will meet one another where we are, encouraging multiplicity and collective discovery. This work has been healing for me and I love sharing it with others.
“Gilded Waters” Workshop (3 hours)
Building on the foundations of Revelatory Vibration, this workshop asks—Where is the border between sound, movement initiation, and linguistic thought construction? I will lead us through a gentle braiding of movement and language by approaching words as sensual creatures. Depending on participants’ orientations, the work may lead to individual/collective song creation, or simply spontaneously blended movement and text work that comes from a deep well of moment to moment channeling. This work grows from my longtime practice of activating energetic and vibrational pathways of the voice through holistic movement. Please bring a notebook. Together we will ignite poetry, trick ourselves out of habitual linguistic pathways, and channel an in-between place of meaning-making.
Testimonials
“Tatyana led participants in observing their own breathing, the breath of others, and the physical sensation of breath and movement. It was like the voice class you initially hated in college because you were convinced the teacher was always unprepared and was just making you lie on the floor to eat up class time, but then you realized its immense value during the last part of the year when the class all came together and made sense. For those of you who have experienced that class before, here is your second chance. For those of you who haven’t (and on whom this example is completely lost), keep an open mind and dive in.”
“Tatyana led us through a series of exercises and improvisational scores intended to fuse sound, sensation, movement and vocalization. We were working with “crossing modalities,” she told us. Cross-wiring our sorting of sensory information and cross-referencing ways of perceiving and ways of knowing. The result was potentially the most unique and engaging score I experienced in this whole series. I traced my spread fingers through the air because of the sound of the fan blowing through the room. I hummed because of the sensation of the puffy mats against my bare feet. I interacted with other bodies in the space as fluidly as if they were my other limbs.”
Invite me to coach your ensemble, support your students, or nurture your community of professional or non-professional artists
tatyanatenenbaum @ gmail [dot] com