VYETTE TIYA

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Tales of Origination: An Evening of Drums and Dance | People’s Music Supply

Tonight is a return to who we are, what we are, the turning point of society, where at our most basic levels, we are synchronizing along the revelation of a cosmic clock. Drums x Dance.

Performers: Tracy Lisk and Asimina Chremos; Nick Neuburg and Mijkalena Smith; Kevin Murray and Vyette Tiya

June 21, 2024 | Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts | More Info

STUDIO WORKS | Leah Stein Dance Company

Studio Works is an informal, works-in-progress series designed for makers of all disciplines creating live work to share new and old work at any stage of development.

Vyette Tiya, with collaborator Daniel Sohn, will be presenting a draft work titled “building a house for a home.” This work explores what it means to seek steady ground. Collaborative and interdisciplinary, this piece considers recollection, displacement, lineage, and homemaking – a calling back to move forward.

June 1, 2024 | Art Room Studio | More info

Featured Artists: Aubrey Donisch, Miryam Coppersmith, and Vyette Tiya

Obligatory Oblivion

A solo performance from one of the wildest acts on the east coast. Utilizing embodied feedback, embedded microphones, and a mixing of high/low technologies, Levi Lu builds moments that will leave your jaw hanging.

Opening with an improvised duet by Vyette Tiya and musician Aaron Pond

April 6, 2024 | Headlong Dance Theater | More info

Miniball: Performa Choreographic Incubator Works-In-Progress

March 30, 2024 | Philadelphia FringeArts

Performa Choreographic Incubator is a laboratory where artists generate body-based compositions that seek an edge to push on. Their selections range from pithy reticence to intimate grief to irreplicable happenstance. Join the participants of Performa Winter 2024 as they plant the seeds of their next big idea. Produced by Adam Kerbel.

Philly Dance Class Share

Come take class with me! All levels welcome!

A Tree When No Moon Shines

Produced by Keila Cordova/3 Pony Show

Performed by Jaye Allison and Vyette Tiya

Philadelphia Fringe Fest 2023 | Icebox Project Space | September 2-19 2023

She left behind a body a mile back: large, imposing, almost completely hidden in the reeds. The crickets were loud. They would tell her secrets to anyone who would listen. She stood now in overgrown grass, looking back at what was home, in the tandem tension between the past and present, between the sweet smell of honeysuckle and of red dirt clinging to her legs and bared feet. She remembered how the elders told tales to try to keep the young ones safe.

A Model for Staying With (Teaser)

Produced and directed by Britta Joy Peterson | bjpdance

Performed by Malik Burnett, Annie Peterson, Vyette Tiya, Zoe Wrampler

"A Model for Staying With” is a multidisciplinary art project broaching climate breakdown, ecological theory, and environmental communication. Skating the edge of personification and actualization, four people from a future-past dance a score for staying with that involves natural history, popular science, memory, loss and communication. They are projected simultaneously alone yet together, each with their own role and voice within the disconnected network. They carry on and continue, offline from one another…” - Britta Joy Peterson

KUUV

Curated by Washington Project for the Arts and darlingdance | Info

Presenting “a small riot,” a dance film choreographed and performed by Vyette Tiya

September 26, 2020

"KUVV" is a multidisciplinary, collaborative project organized by choreographer and performance artist Hayley Cutler, exploring the relationship between home, familial lineage, and the body. KUUV culminates in an evening-length, live-streamed, performance on Saturday, September 26th comprising work by six participating artists, who were selected through an open call this past spring. Emily Ames, Antonius and Theresa-Xuan Bui, Jamie Garcia, Akela Jaffi, Juliana Ponguta, and Vyette Tiya have worked independently and in conversation with each other throughout the summer to create intimate responses reflective of the prompt: How does your familial lineage live in your physical body today, and how does that contribute to your sense of home as it relates to your identity?

Copyright Mariah Miranda and darlingdance, courtesy of Washington Project for the Arts

External Organ

A new project by Britta Joy Peterson| bjpdance

Dance Place 2022

A Rehearsal in Progress Trailer: vimeo

“External Organ is a cumulative creative research body yielding methodologies, workshops and performances grappling with organs, organisms, and organization through the lens of sustainability and the climate crisis…” - Britta Joy Peterson

Frequencies

Britta Joy Peterson | bjpdance

October 2020

“Frequencies is an evening length performance piece that serves as interface for music and dance, light and space, individual and community, intimacy and grandeur. Frequencies is performed by a 16-person ensemble of DMV-based performers, composed of musicians who move and dancers who sing. Throughout the work, body is method, medium, and receptor, with an undercurrent of body as potential for connection. While performance crafts ephemeral community, we put resounding bodies to work towards crafting lasting connection” - Britta Joy Peterson

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LENS

Produced by Ben Levine | Extreme Lengths Productions and D.C.-based artists

POSTPONED

The REACH at the Kennedy Center

LENS is a series of four installations each viewed through a different device. Perspectives are reshaped by telescopes, virtual reality, infrared goggles, and 360-degree film projection