Lime is born of Noise & Nation. Shipwrecked in time, Lime performs future folk dances and sings to a homeland yet to exist. Lime Rickey International is the superconsciousness of Leyya Mona Tawil, an artist working with dance, sound and conceptual practices. Tawil is a Syrian, Palestinian, American engaged in the world as such. She has a 23-year record of performance scores that have been presented in 40+ cities throughout the US, Europe and the Arab world. Lime Rickey International’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 was the ISSUE Project Room Suzanne Fiol Curatorial Fellow 2020 for her project “Nomadic Signals”. She was a 2018 Saari Fellow (Finland) and is currently am artist at Wysing Arts Center's Net//Work Residency, supported by the British Council.

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