Audition for Lyons & Tigers Saturday, March 14th, 2020
RSVP by emailing darcy@lyonsandtigers.org with your phone number, email address, headshot (or any photo of you), and resume. If you absolutely cannot attend the audition in person, but you are interested in auditioning, please include alternate times and dates you are available to audition in your email. Thank you so much!
Location: The Iron Factory, 118 Fontain (NOT Fountain) street, 3rd floor, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Participants are asked to arrive between 1:30 and 2.
Audition check in and self guided warm up: 1:30-2 PM
Audition time: 2-4:30
Lyons & Tigers will be auditioning for two different short pieces to be presented this fall/winter (dates and venue TBD). Performances will be paid.
Rehearsals are two to four Saturdays a month (depending on the month and which piece you are cast in) from 1 or 2-5 PM at The Iron Factory in the Kensington area of Philadelphia.
Rehearsals will start April 4, 2020 and go until the fall/winter performances. Pending project development, chosen collaborators may have the option to continue to work with Lyons & Tigers for future shows beyond fall/winter 2020.
About the pieces:
Kandinsky/Motivation/Transition directed by Darcy Lyons
This piece is inspired by a painting by Wassily Kandinsky and will engage with the color, shape, sound, movement, and transition that the painting evokes. Additionally, we’ll explore what motivation moves us from one thing to the next in movement, thinking, and emotionality. We’ll explore what motivation looks like when it comes from the inside and what motivates us from the external world.
known/unknowns
known/unknowns is a collaboration between choreographer Darcy Lyons and visual artist Ivia Sky Yavelow.
The performance space will be cluttered with many sculptures made by Yavelow. These lightweight soft sculptures are made of dark fabric bundled around unseen contents, appearing similar to rucksacks. Performers will enter and move with the sculptures and their shadows in movements that may include leaning, inspecting, punching, cuddling, rocking, and stacking. Some of the objects crinkle when touched. The performer’s movements are based on ideas about living with and confronting darkness and unknowns and the sculptures are a visual representation of these unknowns.
About Ivia Sky Yavelow:
Ivia Sky Yavelow earned a BA from Bard College in 2014 and also studied at the New York Studio School. In 2015 she was awarded a Visual Artist Fellowship from the Edward F. Albee Foundation and completed a residency at their William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center in Montauk, NY. She currently lives, works, and creates in the tri-state area.
Her process and concept based multi-media works range from installations to freestanding sculptures and works on paper, which she has exhibited since 2010. Her work has won awards in exhibitions at the New York Studio School and the Trenton City Museum.
In addition to her own studio practice, Yavelow collaborates with other artists and performers and works with art every day as an artist, curator, and teacher. Find out more at iviaskyyavelow.com
Photo by Ryan Collerd