Destroy// All Places
A new ritual for new times.
Leyya builds the work on location in one day with local artists.
In performance, the work destroys itself.
AUDIO ARCHIVE on SoundCloud
VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo
Destroy// ALL PLACES
SAN FRANCISCO / Kunst-Stoff Arts w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino (Tiberius)
SAN FRANCISCO / UN Plaza w. Mike Guarino
SAN FRANCISCO / Kunst-Stoff Arts w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
SAN FRANCISCO / Mint Plaza w. Mike Guarino
OAKLAND / TAC: Temescal Art Center w. Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
NEW ORLEANS / The Front w. Justin Vittitow
SAN FRANCISCO / Joe Goode Annex w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
AMSTERDAM / Muiderpoorttheatre w. Ava Mendoza, Nick Tamburro
AMSTERDAM / Bimhuis w. Ava Mendoza, Luc Ex, George Haddow
ROME / Duncan 3.0 Produced by CORE w. Ava Mendoza, Marco DiGasbarro
BROOKLYN / CPR: Center for Performance Research w. Ches Smith
WASH. DC/ Dance Exchange w. Nick Millevoi, Julius Masri
ATHENS / Frown Tails w. Nikos Veliotis, ILIOS (Mohammad)
BERLIN / Dock 11 w. Hilary Jeffery, Steve Heather, Richard Scott
MANHATTAN / The Tank w. Ava Mendoza, Ryan Sawyer, Devin Hoff
PHOENIX/ Urban Yoga Space w. Dominic Cramp
PHILADELPHIA/ Mascher Space w. Nick Millevoi, Julius Masri, Devin Hoff
DETROIT/ detroit contemporary Produced by Spread Art w. Mike Khoury, Andrew Coltrane
OULU/ Oulun Tanssikomppania Ry w. Antti Rundelin, Kili Kauppi
DEN HAAG/ CLOUD at DansLab w. Arvind Ganga, Rogier Smal, Jongkak Park
CAIRO/ TransDance Festival w. Cherif El-Masri of The Invisible Hands
SAN FRANCISCO/ YBCA Grand Lobby @ ConVerge Series w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino
ST.PETERSBURG/ Museum of Nonconformist Art w. Sander Shifter, Evgeny Renia (DUB DEPT)
PROVIDENCE/ AS220 w. Sarah Hennies
SEATTLE/ Pivot Art + Culture w. Dave Abramson, Greg Kelley
BERLIN/ Ballhaus Naunynstraße / After the Last Sky Festival w. Mike Khoury, Dirar Kalash
MINNEAPOLIS/ The Soap Factory w. Milo Fine,Benjamin J Mansavage Klein, Cyrus Pireh
AUSTIN/ Museum of Human Achievement/ COTFG w. Marina Peterson, Christopher Petkus, Josh Ronsen
Destroy// in the news:
Dancer Walks Away Unscathed. by Megan V. Nicely. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.(September 2016)
A Wind Blowing on Palestine Berlin. by Lea Chalmont-Faedo. C'est Comme Ca Qu'on Danse (Berlin, 15 Sep 2016)
Against the Wall. by Astrid Kaminski. TanzRaumBerlin (Berlin, 13 Sep 2016)
VJ Um Amel interviews Leyya Mona Tawil for Art Territories. (Ramallah, Aug 2015)
TransDance14: A destructive and stimulating start. Review by Sama Waly for Mada Masr (Cairo, Nov 2014)
Leyya Tawil in Conversation with Linda Weintraub. Movement Research: Critical Correspondence (NYC, Oct 2014)
Destroy// Oulu - A Record. by L. Tawil, Iivari Karjalainen. Kaks Kasia #4 (Oulu, July 2014)
Free Association: Destroy// FEN Magazine by Marwa Helal and Katherine Toukhy. (New York City, Oct 2013)
Theater to go - Destroy// review by Roland Walter (Berlin, July 2013)
The Huffington Post interview/article by Roxane Assaf (Detroit, May 2013)
East Bay Express Top Pick Destroy// Oakland by Claudia Bauer (Oakland, Oct 2012)
Destroy// musicians:
Original collaborators: Tiberius (Dominic Cramp and Mike Guarino)
Ava Mendoza (SF/Manhattan/Amsterdam/Rome), Justin Vittitow (New Orleans), George Hadow (Amsterdam), Nick Tamburro (Amsterdam), Luc Ex (Amsterdam), Marco DiGasbarro (Rome), Ches Smith (Brooklyn), Nick Millevoi (Washington DC/Philly), Julius Masri (Washington DC/Philly), Hilary Jeffery (Berlin), Richard Scott (Berlin), Steve Heather (Berlin), Nikos Veliotis (Athens), ILIOS (Athens), Ryan Sawyer (Manhattan), Devin Hoff (Manhattan/Philly), Andrew Coltrane (Detroit), Mike Khoury (Detroit/Berlin), Antti Rundelin (Oulu), Kili Kauppi (Oulu), Arvind Ganga (Den Haag), Rogier Smal (Den Haag), Kagi (Den Haag), Cherif El-Masri (Cairo), Alexander Shifter (St.Petersburg), Evgeny Renia (St.Petersburg), Sarah Hennies (Providence), Dave Abramson (Seattle), Greg Kelley (Seattle), Dirar Kalash (Berlin), Milo Fine (Minneapolis), Benjamin J Mansavage Klein (Minneapolis), Cyrus Pireh (Minneapolis), Marina Peterson (Austin), Christopher Petkus (Austin), Josh Ronsen (Austin).
Destroy// dancers:
Dancers at each location/ CALENDAR
The record of dancers who have participated in this work to date are:
Katie Gaydos, Sriba Kwadjovie, Sam Stone, Jana Zahler, Karla Quintero, Deborah Karp, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Patsy Morris, Arielle Olson, Janet Das, Margaret Cromwell, Natalie Greene, Nell Suttles, Katelyn Hales, Laura Bartczak, Michelle Friend, Kaia Gilje, Macklin Kowal, Jordan Risdon, Rachel Slaughter, Laurel Snyder, Manuela Tessi, Gretchen Garnett, Silvia Bennett, Margherita Landi, Maria Mavridou, Jasper Dzuki Jelen, Raoul Freitas Vale Germano, Boris Willis, Jenny Thomas Flemingloss, Catherine Liu, Carolyn Kamrath, Giordano Novielli, Enrica Felici, Silvia Franci, Maria Elisa Carzedda, Chiara Pacioni, Ichen Zuffellato, Simona Zaccagno, Trina Mannino, Elizabeth Barton, Natassa Fouseki, Marianna Karava, Danai Panou, Marianna Panourgia, Nick Kalivas, Victoria Kotsalou, Akemi Nagao, Shai Farang, Leah Katz, Isabelle Sjahsam, Katherina Malong, Elyse Cox, Yannis Karalis, Jill Hockett, Samantha Carmean, Pauline Legras, Alice Pucheu, Annie Wang, Kristen Klein, Anthony Rosado, Zari Le'on, Kennia Hernandez-Aguirre, Hershel Jackson Jr., Christopher Seth Biles, Adam Astorga, Alyssa Fresh, Andrea Pardi, Gregory Holt, Barbara Tait, Antonia Z Brown, Shannon Murphy, Sophie Malin, Willa Brown, Kate Abernethy, Rachael Ann Harbert, Erika Red Stowall, Samuel Horning, Lynn Tofil, Alexander Weyer, Molly McMillan, James Vessell, Kristi Faulkner, Kaisa Rundelin, Vaatu Kalajoki, Laura Feodoroff, Noora Oertel, Hanna Appel, Mona Gamil-Fagan, Yasmine Kamel, Rachael Dichter, Kate Knuttel, Hannah Pierce, Isabella Kulkarni, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Shoshana Green, Kate Jordan Augusto, Claire Campolo, Emily Flynn, Megan Nicely, Dasha Che, Micah Morris, Weidong Yang, Vitaliy Kim, Katarina Urbanovich, Katarina Maran, Michelle Winchell Struckholz, Angie Hartley, Mary Teuscher, Myah Shein, Teresa Kochis, Li Jun Lai, Mekbul J Tahir, Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti, Farah Saleh, Julie Nathanielsz, Lynn Tofil, Cassandra Wulff, Faith Stevens, Eric Eugene Aguilar, kt shores, Laura Aschoff, Hendri Walujo, Kathryn Padberg, Irene Gonzalez Cortina, Fadi Waked, Leila Awadallah, Amelia Morris, Nicole Stumpf, Jenn Pray, Laura Levinson, Ben Swenson-Klatt, Non Edwards, Pedro Pablo Lander, Abby Taylor, Gabriel Mata, Rachel Horner, Halie Bahr, Erin Drummond, Tera Kilbride, Sarah Finley, Errin Delperdang, Katherine Hodges, Lisa Anne Kobdish, Laura Mobley, Rosalyn Nasky, Erica Gionfriddo.
Destroy// photos:
A new ritual for new times.
Leyya builds the work on location in one day with local artists.
In performance, the work destroys itself.
AUDIO ARCHIVE on SoundCloud
VIDEO ARCHIVE on Vimeo
Destroy// ALL PLACES
SAN FRANCISCO / Kunst-Stoff Arts w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino (Tiberius)
SAN FRANCISCO / UN Plaza w. Mike Guarino
SAN FRANCISCO / Kunst-Stoff Arts w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
SAN FRANCISCO / Mint Plaza w. Mike Guarino
OAKLAND / TAC: Temescal Art Center w. Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
NEW ORLEANS / The Front w. Justin Vittitow
SAN FRANCISCO / Joe Goode Annex w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino, Ava Mendoza
AMSTERDAM / Muiderpoorttheatre w. Ava Mendoza, Nick Tamburro
AMSTERDAM / Bimhuis w. Ava Mendoza, Luc Ex, George Haddow
ROME / Duncan 3.0 Produced by CORE w. Ava Mendoza, Marco DiGasbarro
BROOKLYN / CPR: Center for Performance Research w. Ches Smith
WASH. DC/ Dance Exchange w. Nick Millevoi, Julius Masri
ATHENS / Frown Tails w. Nikos Veliotis, ILIOS (Mohammad)
BERLIN / Dock 11 w. Hilary Jeffery, Steve Heather, Richard Scott
MANHATTAN / The Tank w. Ava Mendoza, Ryan Sawyer, Devin Hoff
PHOENIX/ Urban Yoga Space w. Dominic Cramp
PHILADELPHIA/ Mascher Space w. Nick Millevoi, Julius Masri, Devin Hoff
DETROIT/ detroit contemporary Produced by Spread Art w. Mike Khoury, Andrew Coltrane
OULU/ Oulun Tanssikomppania Ry w. Antti Rundelin, Kili Kauppi
DEN HAAG/ CLOUD at DansLab w. Arvind Ganga, Rogier Smal, Jongkak Park
CAIRO/ TransDance Festival w. Cherif El-Masri of The Invisible Hands
SAN FRANCISCO/ YBCA Grand Lobby @ ConVerge Series w. Dominic Cramp, Mike Guarino
ST.PETERSBURG/ Museum of Nonconformist Art w. Sander Shifter, Evgeny Renia (DUB DEPT)
PROVIDENCE/ AS220 w. Sarah Hennies
SEATTLE/ Pivot Art + Culture w. Dave Abramson, Greg Kelley
BERLIN/ Ballhaus Naunynstraße / After the Last Sky Festival w. Mike Khoury, Dirar Kalash
MINNEAPOLIS/ The Soap Factory w. Milo Fine,Benjamin J Mansavage Klein, Cyrus Pireh
AUSTIN/ Museum of Human Achievement/ COTFG w. Marina Peterson, Christopher Petkus, Josh Ronsen
Destroy// in the news:
Dancer Walks Away Unscathed. by Megan V. Nicely. PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art.(September 2016)
A Wind Blowing on Palestine Berlin. by Lea Chalmont-Faedo. C'est Comme Ca Qu'on Danse (Berlin, 15 Sep 2016)
Against the Wall. by Astrid Kaminski. TanzRaumBerlin (Berlin, 13 Sep 2016)
VJ Um Amel interviews Leyya Mona Tawil for Art Territories. (Ramallah, Aug 2015)
TransDance14: A destructive and stimulating start. Review by Sama Waly for Mada Masr (Cairo, Nov 2014)
Leyya Tawil in Conversation with Linda Weintraub. Movement Research: Critical Correspondence (NYC, Oct 2014)
Destroy// Oulu - A Record. by L. Tawil, Iivari Karjalainen. Kaks Kasia #4 (Oulu, July 2014)
Free Association: Destroy// FEN Magazine by Marwa Helal and Katherine Toukhy. (New York City, Oct 2013)
Theater to go - Destroy// review by Roland Walter (Berlin, July 2013)
The Huffington Post interview/article by Roxane Assaf (Detroit, May 2013)
East Bay Express Top Pick Destroy// Oakland by Claudia Bauer (Oakland, Oct 2012)
Destroy// musicians:
Original collaborators: Tiberius (Dominic Cramp and Mike Guarino)
Ava Mendoza (SF/Manhattan/Amsterdam/Rome), Justin Vittitow (New Orleans), George Hadow (Amsterdam), Nick Tamburro (Amsterdam), Luc Ex (Amsterdam), Marco DiGasbarro (Rome), Ches Smith (Brooklyn), Nick Millevoi (Washington DC/Philly), Julius Masri (Washington DC/Philly), Hilary Jeffery (Berlin), Richard Scott (Berlin), Steve Heather (Berlin), Nikos Veliotis (Athens), ILIOS (Athens), Ryan Sawyer (Manhattan), Devin Hoff (Manhattan/Philly), Andrew Coltrane (Detroit), Mike Khoury (Detroit/Berlin), Antti Rundelin (Oulu), Kili Kauppi (Oulu), Arvind Ganga (Den Haag), Rogier Smal (Den Haag), Kagi (Den Haag), Cherif El-Masri (Cairo), Alexander Shifter (St.Petersburg), Evgeny Renia (St.Petersburg), Sarah Hennies (Providence), Dave Abramson (Seattle), Greg Kelley (Seattle), Dirar Kalash (Berlin), Milo Fine (Minneapolis), Benjamin J Mansavage Klein (Minneapolis), Cyrus Pireh (Minneapolis), Marina Peterson (Austin), Christopher Petkus (Austin), Josh Ronsen (Austin).
Destroy// dancers:
Dancers at each location/ CALENDAR
The record of dancers who have participated in this work to date are:
Katie Gaydos, Sriba Kwadjovie, Sam Stone, Jana Zahler, Karla Quintero, Deborah Karp, Erin Mei-Ling Stuart, Patsy Morris, Arielle Olson, Janet Das, Margaret Cromwell, Natalie Greene, Nell Suttles, Katelyn Hales, Laura Bartczak, Michelle Friend, Kaia Gilje, Macklin Kowal, Jordan Risdon, Rachel Slaughter, Laurel Snyder, Manuela Tessi, Gretchen Garnett, Silvia Bennett, Margherita Landi, Maria Mavridou, Jasper Dzuki Jelen, Raoul Freitas Vale Germano, Boris Willis, Jenny Thomas Flemingloss, Catherine Liu, Carolyn Kamrath, Giordano Novielli, Enrica Felici, Silvia Franci, Maria Elisa Carzedda, Chiara Pacioni, Ichen Zuffellato, Simona Zaccagno, Trina Mannino, Elizabeth Barton, Natassa Fouseki, Marianna Karava, Danai Panou, Marianna Panourgia, Nick Kalivas, Victoria Kotsalou, Akemi Nagao, Shai Farang, Leah Katz, Isabelle Sjahsam, Katherina Malong, Elyse Cox, Yannis Karalis, Jill Hockett, Samantha Carmean, Pauline Legras, Alice Pucheu, Annie Wang, Kristen Klein, Anthony Rosado, Zari Le'on, Kennia Hernandez-Aguirre, Hershel Jackson Jr., Christopher Seth Biles, Adam Astorga, Alyssa Fresh, Andrea Pardi, Gregory Holt, Barbara Tait, Antonia Z Brown, Shannon Murphy, Sophie Malin, Willa Brown, Kate Abernethy, Rachael Ann Harbert, Erika Red Stowall, Samuel Horning, Lynn Tofil, Alexander Weyer, Molly McMillan, James Vessell, Kristi Faulkner, Kaisa Rundelin, Vaatu Kalajoki, Laura Feodoroff, Noora Oertel, Hanna Appel, Mona Gamil-Fagan, Yasmine Kamel, Rachael Dichter, Kate Knuttel, Hannah Pierce, Isabella Kulkarni, Daiane Lopes da Silva, Shoshana Green, Kate Jordan Augusto, Claire Campolo, Emily Flynn, Megan Nicely, Dasha Che, Micah Morris, Weidong Yang, Vitaliy Kim, Katarina Urbanovich, Katarina Maran, Michelle Winchell Struckholz, Angie Hartley, Mary Teuscher, Myah Shein, Teresa Kochis, Li Jun Lai, Mekbul J Tahir, Natasha Maria Brooks-Sperduti, Farah Saleh, Julie Nathanielsz, Lynn Tofil, Cassandra Wulff, Faith Stevens, Eric Eugene Aguilar, kt shores, Laura Aschoff, Hendri Walujo, Kathryn Padberg, Irene Gonzalez Cortina, Fadi Waked, Leila Awadallah, Amelia Morris, Nicole Stumpf, Jenn Pray, Laura Levinson, Ben Swenson-Klatt, Non Edwards, Pedro Pablo Lander, Abby Taylor, Gabriel Mata, Rachel Horner, Halie Bahr, Erin Drummond, Tera Kilbride, Sarah Finley, Errin Delperdang, Katherine Hodges, Lisa Anne Kobdish, Laura Mobley, Rosalyn Nasky, Erica Gionfriddo.
Destroy// photos:
Museum of Human Achievement/ AUSTIN
The Soap Factory / MINNEAPOLIS photos by Seth Dahlseid
Ballhaus Naunynstrasse / After the last sky / BERLIN photos by Wagner Carvalho
Pivot Art + Culture / SEATTLE photos by Robert Wade video
AS220 Black Box / PROVIDENCE video
Museum of Nonconformist Art / ST. PETERSBURG video
Townhouse Rawabet Theater / CAIRO
Danslab / THE HAGUE photos by Theo van Loon
Oulun Tanssikomppania ry / OULU photos by Iivari Karjalainen
detroit contemporary / DETROIT photos by Lisa Frank and Christina deRoos video
Mascher Space Co-op/ PHILADELPHIA photos by Katie Rey video by Kinan Faham
Urban Space/ PHOENIX photos by Fiestaban Photography video
The Tank / MANHATTAN photos by Ricardo Esway and Steven Schreiber video by Kevin Rich
Dock 11 / BERLIN photos by L. Tawil and V. Saloniki video
Frown Tails / ATHENS photos by V. Saloniki and Y. Adoniou video
Dance Exchange / WASHINGTON DC photos by Chris Khoury video by C. Khoury
CPR Center for Performance Research / BROOKLYN photos by Aidan Feldman video by Dancing Camera
Bimhuis / AMSTERDAM photos by Theo van Loon
Duncan 3.0 + Core Danza / ROMA photos by Adi Dronadev
Muiderpoorttheater / AMSTERDAM photos by Anass El Omri
Joe Goode Annex / SAN FRANCISCO photos by Ricardo Esway video by Kenneth Thomas
The Front / NEW ORLEANS - outdoors, no audio or video footage, with Justin Vittitow (percussion).
SAN FRANCISCO / early iterations and one video still from Oakland (TAC)
