Hadar Ahuvia (she/her) is a Rabbinical Student at Hebrew College (class of 2026) and a cross-disciplinary artist, ritual leader and Jewish educator. Hadar’s work centers the body in explorations of Jewish political and cultural lineages. Her essay “Joy Vey” on choreographing a diasporic identity beyond Zionism is featured in the Oxford Handbook of Jewishness and Dance. Her choreographer credits include: Baryshnikov Arts Center, Danspace Project, 14th St Y, Gibney, LABA, Movement Research, and New Jewish Culture Fellowship, a Bessie nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer, and Dance Magazine’s ‘25 to Watch in 2019’. Research for her dances began alongside curriculums she developed for Kolot Chayeinu’s b’nai mitzvah program. Hadar is studying Ashekanzi vernacular and cantorial music, weaving performance and services that suture between generations and are committed to collective transformation.