Lime Rickey International is the superconsciousness of Leyya Mona Tawil, an artist working with dance, sound and performance practices. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. She has a 23-year record of performance scores that have been presented in 40+ cities throughout the US, Europe and the Arab world. Tawil was named the ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow for 2020 for her project called “Nomadic Signals”. She also received a 2018 Saari Residence Fellowship in Finland.
 
Lime Rickey Internatonal’s Future Faith, commissioned by Abrons Arts Center and the KONE Foundation, was nominated for a 2019 Bessie Award in Music, and also acclaimed in Artforum International’s Performance Review of 2019. Her performance work has received commissioning and development support from Target Margin Theater's LAB 2019, Pieter Performance Space Residency 2020, Gibney Dance-in-Process Program 2020 and Kenneth Rainin Foundation NEW Grant.

---

INTERVIEWS
Bhavisha Panchia & Leyya Mona Tawil – ‘Noise and Nation’ – A Blue Skies Conversation

GIBNEY DiP : FUTURE NOW: In Conversation w. Leyya Tawil

---

FUTURE FAITH
(2019) Press
DANCE ENTHUSIAST
 NEW YORK TIMES 
THE NEW YORKER

---

SF MoMA Open Space
(2016)
​PART 1 :: GO HOME
PART 2 :: RICKEY 'N DICKEY
​PART 3 :: SAINT VITUS
​PART 4 :: UNSTOPPABLE