{"id":7077,"date":"2026-08-25T17:38:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/?post_type=artistes-recherche&#038;p=7077"},"modified":"2026-08-25T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T17:38:21","slug":"nate-yaffe","status":"publish","type":"artistes-recherche","link":"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/en\/artists-research\/nate-yaffe\/","title":{"rendered":"Nate Yaffe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='av_section_1'  class='avia-section av-av_section-2dcb3d115e2e5af9a73072e0505910f8 main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_section  avia-builder-el-first  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><main  role=\"main\" itemprop=\"mainContentOfPage\"  class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-7077'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-av_textblock-e878f05c31dff72941bf1e49a00d9ff5 '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h1><span class=\"ls-page-titre\">Nate Yaffe<\/span><\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-mgil49e4-106a03c9d3a670d7ca93726f48e967ea\">\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-106a03c9d3a670d7ca93726f48e967ea img.avia_image{\nbox-shadow:none;\n}\n.avia-image-container.av-mgil49e4-106a03c9d3a670d7ca93726f48e967ea .av-image-caption-overlay-center{\ncolor:#ffffff;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='avia-image-container av-mgil49e4-106a03c9d3a670d7ca93726f48e967ea av-styling- avia-align-center  avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_textblock  ls-home-top-image av-has-copyright av-copyright-always'   itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><div class=\"avia-image-container-inner\"><div class=\"avia-image-overlay-wrap\"><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" class='wp-image-7088 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7088 avia_image ' src=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897.jpg\" alt='' title='A Hard Garment_Nate Yaffe_CR-Benjamin Samson_5'  height=\"2405\" width=\"1924\"  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897.jpg 1924w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-824x1030.jpg 824w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-768x960.jpg 768w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-1229x1536.jpg 1229w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-1638x2048.jpg 1638w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-960x1200.jpg 960w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-720x900.jpg 720w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-360x450.jpg 360w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-1200x1500.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/laserre.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/288A2897-564x705.jpg 564w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1924px) 100vw, 1924px\" \/><\/div><small class=\"avia-copyright\">Benjamin Samson<\/small><\/div><\/div>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgil4juv-eb8e62b43cb330b47af0fb62d783602d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-50'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nate Yaffe is an experimental dance, theatre and video artist, based in Tioht\u00e0:ke (Montreal) who researches queer strategies for bodily permission and courage. His tactile dances dismantle movement shame through un-correcting the self-censored body. He weaves a relational web with his audience, and uses affect as a tangible choreographic material, reminding us that performance is a social exchange, after all. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>As co-artistic director of Le Radeau, Nate seeks community-centred alternatives for being a dance artist in face of the uncertain future. He has also co-curated many events including Signal Vibrant: a ceremony for the dead, and Hommage Fromage. His work has recently been presented at FRAC Bretagne, Lachapelle sc\u00e8nes contemporaines, OFFTA, Performance Mix festival (NYC), SummerWorks (Toronto), Plastic Orchid Factory (Vancouver), and Biennale d\u2019art performatif de Rouyn-Noranda.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilfnqj-7ae00f11cf5c81712c775b11c20fa52c '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-liens'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-siteweb\" href=\"http:\/\/leradeau.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a> <a class=\"ls-artiste-lien ls-artiste-instagram\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nateyaffe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/div><\/main><!-- close content main element --><\/div><\/div><div id='av_section_2'  class='avia-section av-av_section-6f1d7982ba765679b9e9bc761702e58e main_color avia-section-default avia-no-border-styling  avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_section  avia-builder-el-last  avia-bg-style-scroll container_wrap fullsize'  ><div class='container av-section-cont-open' ><div class='template-page content  av-content-full alpha units'><div class='post-entry post-entry-type-page post-entry-7077'><div class='entry-content-wrapper clearfix'>\n<section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilghl6-8f7255eacb7ba4ccd0959d25a84ebf6d '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-font-100'  itemprop=\"text\" ><h2 class=\"center\">A Hard Garment (working title)<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-av_one_full-23e2fa00a34c57d74284239a72c0e0b4 sc-av_one_full av-equal-height-column-flextable'>\n<style type=\"text\/css\" data-created_by=\"avia_inline_auto\" id=\"style-css-av-av_one_full-23e2fa00a34c57d74284239a72c0e0b4\">\n.flex_column.av-av_one_full-23e2fa00a34c57d74284239a72c0e0b4{\nwidth:100%;\nmargin-left:0;\n}\n#top .flex_column_table.av-equal-height-column-flextable.av-av_one_full-23e2fa00a34c57d74284239a72c0e0b4 .av-flex-placeholder{\nwidth:0%;\n}\n<\/style>\n<div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-23e2fa00a34c57d74284239a72c0e0b4 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_full  ls-font-28 first flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top  column-top-margin'     ><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilhtya-569e34d78b22e766157de465f07d731f '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-deux-colonnes-suivi'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Hard Garment is a work of performative archaeology, an excavation of our personal Jewish histories and the politics of archaeological digs. Through Kabbalist songs, experimental noise and dance, Nate\u00a0 revisits the Jewish folktale of the Golem, a mythical hero\/antihero made of clay.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>With Gambletron, Thea Patterson, Maxine Segalowitz, and Daph Bendavid V&#8217;yosef, Nate\u00a0 will explore the Kabbalist philosophy of sacred heresy, and gematria meditations to shatter calcified Jewish artefacts, remembering that, above all, culture lives in the people. Nate\u2019s research will also examine doikayt, a Yiddish term meaning \u201chereness\u201d, strengthening Jewish communities wherever they live instead of focusing on founding a separate ethno-nation-state.<\/p>\n<p>Together, they will create a clay golem from shattered artefacts, scan for angel messages on ghost radios, learn sung prayer poems (piyyut), and remount dances from ancestral muscle memory.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. Autoclose: 1 --><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_full-a93934ecd89fbb8a9566d39e89cd3725 av_one_full  avia-builder-el-9  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-12b3ca769ffd258913a4d066383ec651 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-11  el_after_av_one_full  el_before_av_one_half  ls-font-28 first flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><p><section  class='av_textblock_section av-mgilm352-8463585c31eac640e9d498fd8ca5059a '   itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock ls-artiste-credits-titre'  itemprop=\"text\" ><p>CREDITS<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><br \/>\n<div  class='togglecontainer av-mgilni7n-efebf01b54477d8ad738df91aa1e3f57  avia-builder-el-13  el_after_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-last  toggle_close_all' >\n<section class='av_toggle_section av-mgilmw5w-91bdadf4bae648e14a6fd715b1f009f0'  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div role=\"tablist\" class=\"single_toggle\" data-tags=\"{All} \"  ><p data-fake-id='#toggle-id-1' class='toggler   '  itemprop=\"headline\"  role='tab' tabindex='0' aria-controls='toggle-id-1'>Team<span class=\"toggle_icon\"><span class=\"vert_icon\"><\/span><span class=\"hor_icon\"><\/span><\/span><\/p><div id='toggle-id-1' class='toggle_wrap  '  ><div class='toggle_content invers-color '  itemprop=\"text\" ><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Choreography and Performance<\/strong><br \/>\nNate Yaffe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Music and Performance<\/strong><br \/>\nGambletron<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Performance<\/strong><br \/>\nMaxine Segalowitz<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dramaturgy<\/strong><br \/>\nThea Patterson<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Dramaturgy<\/strong><br \/>\nDaph Bendavid V&#8217;yosef<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n<\/div><\/p><\/div><div  class='flex_column av-av_one_half-d06667205e6186ec8414c6eb7605d406 av_one_half  avia-builder-el-14  el_after_av_one_half  avia-builder-el-last  flex_column_div  column-top-margin'     ><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":7088,"template":"","class_list":["post-7077","artistes-recherche","type-artistes-recherche","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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