lime Rickey international
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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. Her 25-year record of performances have been presented in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Arab world. She 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. Tawil is currently an resident artist at Wysing Arts Center, supported by the British Council, developing Lime Rickey International's MALAYEEN.
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, and the East Bay Fund for Artists.
Tawil is the director of TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland-CA, and founder of Arab.AMP - a platform supporting futurist art and ideas from the SWANA diaspora, our region, and our allied BIPOC communities. @arab.amp www.danceElixirLIVE.org
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. Her 25-year record of performances have been presented in the US, Europe, Russia, and the Arab world. She 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. Tawil is currently an resident artist at Wysing Arts Center, supported by the British Council, developing Lime Rickey International's MALAYEEN.
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, and the East Bay Fund for Artists.
Tawil is the director of TAC Temescal Art Center in Oakland-CA, and founder of Arab.AMP - a platform supporting futurist art and ideas from the SWANA diaspora, our region, and our allied BIPOC communities. @arab.amp www.danceElixirLIVE.org
INTERVIEWS
Bhavisha Panchia & Leyya Mona Tawil – ‘Noise and Nation’ – A Blue Skies Conversation
August 2020
GIBNEY DiP : FUTURE NOW: In Conversation w. Leyya Tawil
February 2020
Bhavisha Panchia & Leyya Mona Tawil – ‘Noise and Nation’ – A Blue Skies Conversation
August 2020
GIBNEY DiP : FUTURE NOW: In Conversation w. Leyya Tawil
February 2020
SF MoMA Open Space
(2016)
PART 1 :: GO HOME
PART 2 :: RICKEY 'N DICKEY
PART 3 :: SAINT VITUS
PART 4 :: UNSTOPPABLE
(2016)
PART 1 :: GO HOME
PART 2 :: RICKEY 'N DICKEY
PART 3 :: SAINT VITUS
PART 4 :: UNSTOPPABLE