Saturday September 23, 2023 at 8 PM

Sunday September 24, 2023 at 5 PM

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Unknowns is a collaboration between choreographer Darcy Lyons and visual artist Ivia Sky Yavelow. Accompanied by a live music score by Jesse Sparhawk playing harp, electric, bass, and pedal steel guitar. Dancers interact with an installation of soft sculptures that represent unknowns in ourselves, others, and the outside world. The sculptures and dancers react to each other, exploring changing relationships to the unknowns- an exploration that asks specific questions about unknowns as well as delving into the unknown as a general concept.

Rest Intervention champions the anti-hustle! Valuing rest as research, we offer a fringe-friendly gathering that invites-but-does-not-demand audience participation. What are your sense memories and strategies for recuperation? What stories and/or practices are conjured for you in recollecting experiences of well being and decompression? Rest Intervention includes a cozy corner, conversation, and opportunities to witness each other to stimulate non-productivity, self-care, and a shared practice of rest. This is a curated moment to rest and restore. Informed by a recent, shared residency at Subcircle, Rest Intervention features performances of seeing and unseeing, rest and its partner restlessness, sensorial tracking, and embodied remembrances by Aura and Christy. Rest Intervention offers a moment to pause and to be with.

About the artists: 

Darcy Lyons was born and raised in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She received a B.F.A in dance from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) in 2010 and has since been living, working, performing, and creating dance work in Philadelphia. She has produced the following shows: Proceed with Caution 2019 and 2018, Pendulum 2018, ASKEW 2017, Bricolage 2017, Patchworks 2016, WALLS 2015, and MAEI MAEI AEIM 2013.

Ivia Sky Yavelow is an artist and curator based in central New Jersey. Her works range from small drawings to large installations, and are made with both found and fine art materials. Starting with process based creation and inspired by cycles of creation & destruction, clarity & confusion, her works ask: "What does not knowing look like?". Yavelow graduated from Bard College in 2014 and also studied at the New York Studio School. She has exhibited in the Philadelphia area since 2010.

Aura Fischbeck Dance (since 2008) creates performance events which investigate and communicate the body's intelligence and reflect the complexity of a contemporary human experience. A Philadelphia native, she is currently based in San Francisco. Their work has been presented nationally. Aura recently completed an MFA in dance from the University of the Arts (Philadelphia). She has had the great pleasure to be in conversation and collaboration with Christy Funsch since 2008.

Christy Funsch formed Funsch Dance in 2002 and has since been presented nationally and internationally. She holds an MFA and a Laban Movement Analysis Certification and has taught throughout the U.S. and in Amsterdam, Lisbon, and Vienna. Christy has been mentored by Tere O’Connor, named one of Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch, ” and, in 2019, she was a Fulbright Scholar at Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Dança. She has been in collaborative conversation with Aura Fischbeck since 2008.

Creative Team Instagram Accounts:

Darcy Lyons Director and Choreographer for Unknowns @dlyonstigers

Ivia Sky Yavelow Director and Visual Artist for Unknowns @iviasky

Jesse Sparhawk Live Musician for Unknowns @sparhawkian

Arielle Ridley Performer/Collaborator for Unknowns @98ridley

Yuying Chen Performer/Collaborator for Unknowns @cyuyingll

Des Amaiya Performer/Collaborator for Unknowns @desireamaiya

Aura Fischbeck Choreographer and Performer for Rest Intervention @aurafischbeck

Christy Funsch Choreographer and Performer for Rest Intervention @funschdance

Lyons and Tigers presents their full evening work Proceed with Caution in the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival

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Friday and Saturday September 20th and 21st at 7:30 PM and Sunday, September 22nd at 2 PM

A complimentary reception will immediately follow the Saturday night performance.

**This production is not suitable for children and may contain triggering content.**

Proceed with Caution grapples with personal, social, and global security and trust in the present-day—a time of global violence, the Trump presidency, mass shootings, and the #MeToo movement. A group of performers explore security through dance, video projection, and spoken and recorded words,

Refreshed and expanded after it’s premiere in the 2018 Fringe Festival, the work directed by Darcy Lyons is back to take the stage at one of Philadelphia’s best venues for dance.

Expanded and updated over the past year, Proceed with Caution includes a new twenty minute section about security after 9/11. The central theme of the work comes from security expert Bruce Schneier. He writes: “Security is both a reality and a feeling and they’re not the same thing… The foundation of security is trust, both personal trust and global trust.”

The piece begins to address these questions: How do humans build trust in dance? How do we build trust with each other? How do we build trust in the world at large? How do we address and assess our fears about personal safety? How do our personal feelings of security intersect with global security? How do we make an impact on security through art and activism? With the support of projected video dispersed throughout the piece, the group of performers tell raw stories in their own voices and bodies of their real life experiences of feeling safe, feeling scared, and being truly endangered. The new hour-long version evolves as it moves from the personal to the global, addressing modern issues and how they affect our individual and collective associations and understandings of safety within an increasingly turbulent humanity. Proceed with Caution does not claim to have all the answers, but it’s worth experiencing because the work takes a brave step into exploring one of today’s greatest challenges that everyone can relate to: security.

Directed and produced by Darcy Lyons
Co-choreographed, written and performed by Emma Elsmo, Gabi Montoya, Olivia Naegele, and Sammi Rosenfeld
Previous contributors to the work include Amalia Colon-Nava, Mason Rosenthal, and Carlos Campillo Rubio
Original Costumes created by Cybele Moon

Come see excerpts this June of pieces that will be self-produced in the 2019 Philadelphia Fringe Festival in September! Curated by Darcy Lyons

Friday June 14, 2019 + Saturday June 15, 2019 @ 8 PM @ The Iron Factory

$10 Artists/Students/Philadelphiadance.org Members

$15 General Admission

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Lyons and Tigers presents an excerpt of their full evening length work, Proceed with Caution + new work by these self-producing Fringe artists:

Ujima Dance Theatre

and

Amanda Shaffern partnered with Theater Oblivion

Lyons and Tigers presents Pendulum, an evening of performance and dance work by Philadelphia based artists.

Saturday April 28, 2018 at 8 PM

Sunday April 29, 2018 at 8 PM

Featuring performance and dance work by…

• Lyons and Tigers with stb x at

• Amy Lynne Barr

• Zornitsa Stoyanova 

• Courtney Colón

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$15 General Admission

$10 for PhiladelphiaDANCEMembers/students/artists/underemployed

Lyons and Tigers presents a reworked version of Heaviness/Lightness, a piece directed by Darcy Lyons and co-created with the dance and percussion duo STB x AT (Sean Thomas-Boyt and Andy Thierauf). In this new experimental work, the performers interact and explore the varying definitions and connotations of lightness and heaviness through movement, live sound, and the interaction with Newton’s Cradle desk toys.

Untitled and Solo- A new solo performance by Zornitsa Stoyanova, that speaks through gesture posture and ever shifting emotional affect. It deconstructs communication and translates, internal and external narratives through the body.

Zornitsa is sometimes abstracted and objectified, but still feels your gaze(judgement) upon her skin. Though she doesn’t speak, she is not yours.  Her body is her language, and you can not possess her. Unashamed, she reclaims her power though the expression of her emotions.

Grate by Amy Lynne Barr tackles the ideals of self perceived greatness, personal history, and life's expectations. A journey into the use of language and how it can impress upon us value, and in turn do exactly the opposite.

Femme, a new work by Courtney Colón, investigates the politics surrounding women’s bodies. Through original movement, sound, and visual installations, Femme explores ideologies surrounding the historical, sociological, and cultural intersections of the contemporary woman’s experience. This work is currently in process and remains perpetually in motion.

Free Audition or Workshop with Lyons and Tigers

Saturday February 17, 2018-  3:30-6:30 PM

or/and

Sunday February 18, 2018-  3:30-6:30 PM

Both workshops will be held at The Iron Factory, 118 Fontain Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122

Easily accessible via bike or car (street parking on Howard or Mascher Street) or the MFL (blue line) subway.

Lyons and Tigers (Darcy Lyons) seeks all genders of performers for dance theater performances in spring/summer and fall/winter 2018. Interested participants can take one or both workshops, and taking both is recommended. Please read more below, and formally RSVP by emailing darcy@lyonsandtigers.org with the subject line “Audition or Workshop”.

Rehearsals will be 4-8 hours a week. Performances are paid.

**This is listed as an audition or workshop because performers are welcome to take is as a free workshop without the intent of auditioning! You can just come and play and have fun.**

A note from me, Darcy, about auditioning:

Auditioning sometimes isn’t fun, but try not to stress. My aim is to keep it a low key, low stress, fun and creative dancing time. I think it’s important to have auditions and create opportunities in a city that doesn’t host a lot of auditions. It’s important to see and be seen in an ever growing dance community. I see auditioning as a two way street, as in we’re both auditioning each other. Come see if working with me is a commitment you’d like to take on this year. If not, that’s okay too. Don’t let the “a” word discourage you, and do let the “w” word excite you. And the word FREE! Hope to see you there!

With encouragement,

Darcy

If you absolutely cannot make the audition, but are interested, please email Darcy with a video of yourself dancing, and a resume, and 2 or 3 days and times you are available to audition before March 1, and your (rough) weekly rehearsal availability.

Lyons and Tigers presents ASKEW as part of SoLow Festival 2017

Featuring new dance work by:
Darcy Lyons (all performance dates)
Celine McBride & Margot Steinberg (all performance dates)
Noa Schnitzer (just added to the bill! All performance dates)
Mary-Carmen Webb (Sunday performances ONLY)

Saturday, June 17 at 8 PM
Sunday*, June 18 at 7 PM
Saturday, June 24 at 8 PM
Sunday*, June 25 at 7 PM
*Sad Girl Chronicles will be performed on Sunday dates ONLY)

WHERE: All performances take place at The Iron Factory, 118 Fontain Street, 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122
HOW: Pay What You Can, reserve tickets using our google form
https://goo.gl/forms/vRovkW2TFKQjfrgp1
Contact: darcy@lyonsandtigers.org
Info: http://www.lyonsandtigers.org/, http://www.solowfest.com/

Darcy Lyons presents Rx, a new dance theater solo featuring Mary-Carmen Webb embodying the overwhelming, incapacitation that severe panic can cause. The small, intimate audience will witness (up close) one woman’s journey through absolute fear.

Celine McBride & Margot Electra Steinberg explore the role of fight or flight that happens within conversation. Title of work TBD. :)

Noa Schnitzer will present her solo titled The Life Cycle of the Hair-Snail. In this surreal world, transformation is always lurking. As layers overlap and shed, the hair-snail paves its path, growing into its full potential.

On Sunday performances only, Mary-Carmen Webb will present her new duet, tentatively titled Sad Girl Chronicles performed by herself and Lily Kind. She writes:

Unmasked, two women holding faces.
Called pretty things, and
Surprisingly tired of repetitive pick-up lines.
We are not entirely sure you will be entertained.
Xoxo
Snuggle Pants and Sugar Tits.

Photo by Darcy Lyons of Mary-Carmen in “Rx” . Photo of Mary-Carmen and Lily in Sad Girl Chronicles by Mary-Carmen. Photo of Celine McBride & Margot Steinberg by Darcy Lyons.

SHARE
Presented by The Iron Factory, SHARE is a semi-annual performance featuring our current members. 

June 2 + 3, 2017 at The Iron Factory, 118 Fontain Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
8pm
$15

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Featured Artists:

Darcy Lyons (Lyons and Tigers)

5 Stages of Grief
Four powerful women move through the Kubler- Ross model of the stages of grief that many people experienced after Donald Trump was elected president. Hate has no home here blends pedestrian, quirky, and virtuosic movements. Throughout, the dancers write and erase words from a large whiteboard used as an interactive, communicative device between the dancers themselves and between the dancers and the audience. This whiteboard references both the potency and easy dismissal of spoken and written language in regards to Trumps campaign and presidency as well as the power of written words on posters used in protests around the world that condemn his hateful behavior and beliefs.

Photo by Ryan Collerd

Caussandra Post

A Midsummer Night's Dream
The Word Players will be presenting A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare in preparation for a production at Northern Liberty Lands Park. Running 6/15-6/17, 6/22-6/24, 6/29-7/1 at 6pm and Sunday 6/25 at 3pm. Admission is free! Donations accepted. Kid-friendly.

Katie Ann Haldeman

A Conversation on Waiting
This piece explores the responses, both physical and mental, to being told you have to wait. We question time, space, and desire in regards to waiting through physical movement and text.  

allendance

work in progress
The full work will be shown in the Fringe Festival in September.

stb x at

Big Desert
A collaboration exploring the vastness of sound and movement.

Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 8 PM
Sunday, March 19, 2017 at 7 PM

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Lyons and Tiigers presents Bricolage- an evening of work choreographed by Darcy Lyons and Philly’s up and coming choreographers.

Lyons and Tigers (Darcy Lyons) presents a new dance theater piece in reaction to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States of America
Co-created with performers: Celine McBride, Olivia Naegele, Meredith Stapleton, and Mary-Carmen Webb

Also featuring pieces created by:
Celine McBride
Meredith Stapleton
Mary-Carmen Webb and Harlee Trautman

$15 General Admission
$10 PhiladelphiaDanceMembers/Students with valid ID

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