Shared Program: Nora Alami, Jadd Tank, Leyya Mona Tawil/Lime Rickey International

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). “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. The performance incorporates samples gathered through the MALAYEEN.SPACE community-generated song archive, and excerpts from her upcoming work City & World.