Photos by Joe Lamberti

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.

The evening length piece premiered at the 2023 Philadelphia Fringe Festival in a split bill with Rest Intervention, a work by Aura Fischbeck and Christy Funsch. Venue: Sound Space Performing Arts

Original Dance Cast: Des Amaiya, Yuying Chen, Arielle Ridley

Current Dance Cast: Shannon Lynn Brooks, Leanne Grieger, Michele Tantoco