zavé martohardjono

zavé martohardjono is a Lenapehoking-based/Brooklyn-based choreographer, dancer, installation artist, educator, and community organizer. They make and collaborate on time-based works that activate audiences' senses, tap into ritual and memory, and point towards just and liberated futures. zavé performed in a haunted botany in NYC in 2023 and the Maritime Museum of Maine in 2025. They are a 2022 Bessie/New York Dance and Performance Award nominee for Outstanding Performer. Most notably, they have presented performance works at the 92Y, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Center for Performance Research, El Museo del Barrio, Issue Project Room, the Judson Church, The Kennedy Center, Storm King Art Center, and internationally at Mala Stanica Multimedia Center in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Photo Credits:

Ashley Smith/Wide Eyed Studios

Residencies and fellowships include 2024 Center for Experimental Ethnography at UPenn, 2022 MRX/Movement Research Exchange program, 2021 NYPL Dance Research Fellowship, 2020 Gibney Dance in Process, 2019 Movement Research AIR, 2019 CATWALK Art Residency, 2017-2018 LMCC Workspace Residency, 2016 Bronx Museum, 2016 Shandaken: Storm King, 2016 Gibney Work Up 3.3, 2015 Chez Bushwick, and 2011 EMERGENYC.

Email: zave@zavemartohardjono.com | Instagram: @zavozavito