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Atlas presents an urgent sonic experience where silence is as meaningful as the nervous but minimalist vocabulary raining down. Atlas is concerned with the negotiations of burden – who holds what. It teases assumed agreements between performer and audience – using immersive physical sonic states to press weight upon the room. Atlas is a score of disorientation that places the performers at the mercy of their own doing. Atlas premiered at New York Live Arts/Live Ideas Festival 2016 and followed by inter/national touring: After the Last Sky Festival (Berlin), The Lab (San Francisco) and Irtijal18 (Beirut). PRESS FOR ATLAS “The propulsion of the hand and heel was connected to arcs throughout the body. You could liken the rolls to waves and tides of the sea. You could also feel them as helpless searches for a point of rest..the plight “Atlas” expressed became larger than that of one individual.” – Alastair Macaulay, New York Times “It was disturbing, uncompromising, and awe-inspiring.” – Lizzie Simon, American Theatre “crushing relevance” – Astrid Kaminsky, TanzRaum Berlin ABOUT
TAWIL & KHOURY is the duo of Leyya Mona Tawil and Mike Khoury. They work with sound and movement practices, and are community leaders in the field of Arab Experimentalism. Tawil & Khoury operate within the diaspora; narrating identity on their own terms. They began collaborating in Detroit in 2006, and have since toured nationally and internationally with their performance scores. LEYYA MONA TAWIL [b.1975] - also known as Lime Rickey International - is an artist working with sound, dance and performance practices. Leyya is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. Her 23-year record of performance scores have toured throughout the states, Europe and the Arab world. Tawil was a 2018 Saari Residence Fellow (Finland) and has 2020 support from Gibney DiP Residency (NYC), Pieter Performance (LA) and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation (Oakland). Lime Rickey International’s Future Faith, commissioned by Abrons Arts Center’s AIRspace program and the Kone Foundation, has been nominated for a 2019 Bessie Award in Music. Festival appearances of Future Faith include Today is Our Tomorrow (Helsinki), New Performance Turku (Turku) and ZVRK Festival (Sarajevo). Tawil is the founding director of Dance Elixir (501c3) and Arab.AMP, a US-based platform supporting experimental music and live art from the SWANA diaspora and allied communities. MIKE KHOURY (b. 1969) is an improvising violinist, researcher and economist. His primary work involves the application of quantitative methods from the social sciences to improvisation. Khoury has performed or recorded with Faruq Z. Bey, Dennis Gonzalez, Wolfgang Fuchs, Simply Saucer, and Alex Cline. He currently performs with The Redford Civic Symphony Orchestra, Inscribe, in duo with Leyya Tawil, in duo with Ben Hall and as a member of the group Devotional. Khoury is the author of a chapter in an anthology of the Arab Avant Garde and is the curator of the Entropy Stereo label and performance space. He currently records and produces artists from his Redford, MI studio and laboratory. |