Lime Rickey International is the superconsciousness of Leyya Mona Tawil, an artist working with dance, sound and performance practices. Leyya is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her 23-year record of choreographies and performance scores have toured throughout the US, Europe and the Arab world. In 2018, she was a Kone Foundation/Saari Fellow (Finland) and AIRSpace Artist at Abrons Art Center (NYC). Her work has been commissioned for Abrons Arts Center’s 2018-19 Season and Target Margin Theater’s LAB 2019. Tawil is the director of DANCE ELIXIR and Arab.AMP, a platform for the work of Arab Experimentalism.
Lime Rickey Intl3 Photo by Brian Rogers