La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival x New York Arab Festival: Nora Alami, Jadd Tank, Leyya Mona Tawil/Lime Rickey International
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La MaMa Moves! Dance Festival x New York Arab Festival
Shared Program
Nora Alami, Jadd Tank, Leyya Mona Tawil/Lime Rickey International
April 13–16 (Thursday–Saturday at 7pm, Sunday at 2pm)
Presented in partnership with the New York Arab Festival (Adham Hafez, Artistic Director)
Ellen Stewart Theatre
3rd Body, created and performed by Nora Alami and Jadd Tank, is designed with simulations, each told through dance. Inspired by virtual reality technology, 3rd Body’s simulations are distinct worlds that replicate reality without the parameters of reality itself (think: mirage). Each simulation is intentionally distinct and disjointed from the other. The content is as diverse, contradictory, substantive, and complex as all third culture realities. Some more conceptual, some more personal, others more abstract. Describing the work, the artists have said: “By sequencing these simulations, the audience will make meaning across the contradiction and nonlinearity. 3rd Body is a play about the Other. 3rd Body is told through dance. 3rd Body navigates experiences of being Arab, as told by Arabs, who were told about their Arab-ism by others. Located in the discomfort of discussing identity, 3rd Body manifests a type of longing understood to those who seek to belong.”
Lime Rickey International is the superconciousness of hybrid artist Leyya Mona Tawil. Here, Lime is shipwrecked in time, performing future folk songs and dances from a homeland yet to exist. Tawil uses voice, microphones, interactive surfaces and elements of dabke to build hybrid performances and sound compositions. Lime Rickey International's Malayeen Voices is a performance work in tandem with web-based artwork MALAYEEN.SPACE. The performance incorporates samples gathered through the MALAYEEN.SPACE community-generated song archive, and excerpts from her upcoming work City & World. It is a solo of multitudes that builds and gathers, shares and opens new worlds to and with audiences.
About New York Arab Festival
While the history of the earliest Arab immigration to the US predates the Declaration of Independence, the rich cultural heritage of Arabs and Arab Americans remains marginalized. New York Arab Festival (NYAF) was founded to fight the erasure of Arab and Arab American identity in the city of New York through the celebration of Arab art, culture, and heritage. NYAF was founded by Arab, American, and Arab American artists, creators, and policymakers in New York to address cultural erasure, urban inequality, and artistic injustice. It celebrates Arab arts, culture and design each year in the month of April, the National month of Arab and Arab American Heritage. Founded by HaRaKa Platform’s curator, Adham Hafez, with producers Cindy Sibilsky, Marwa Seoudi and Adam Kucharski. And powered by Wizara, a pioneering creative studio and digital art ecosystem.
Photo of Nora Alami and Jadd Tank by Angel Acuna
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