Arab.AMP is a platform for experimental live art and music by artists of the SWANA diaspora and allied communities.

Arab.AMP is curated and directed by Leyya Mona Tawil who has worked in the field of performance and music for over 23 years. Arab.AMP celebrates the plurality of SWANA voices operating in futurism, the Avant Garde and transgressive forms. 

Arab.AMP is nomadic, operating in partnership with venues inter/nationally. A program of ELIXIR 501c3, Arab.AMP produces tours, commissions and artistic gatherings for the community it serves. 

​​Read more:
We Place Ourselves; the social choreography of Arab Experimentalism 
Essay by Leyya Tawil, 
Detroit Research Journal - Vol. 2 (2016)

Tawil & Khoury discuss Arab Experimentalism
​CEC Artslink Assembly (Dec 2018)

5 Questions/ Tawil interviews Dirar Kalash
Fusebox Festival's Written & Spoken (Nov 2018)

Tawil, Lime Rickey International, Arab Experimentalism - Interview with Trina Mannino
Dance Enthusiast (31 Oct 2018)

Press:
WHFR Interview/Live Performance:
Leyya Tawil, Sharif Sehnaoui, Dominic Cramp
w. Morgan B & Scott Boatright
WHRF 89.3 Dearborn (27 Nov 2019)

Faster than Sound
​by Rachel Rascoe
Austin Chronicle (12 Apr 2019)
Regarding Arab.AMP's cancelled tour for Dirar Kalash

Impressions: Lime Rickey International's Future Faith at Abrons Arts Center
by Erin Bomboy
Dance Enthusiast (14 Mar 2019)

Alone in the Wind: Mike Khoury at MoHA
by Christine Gwillim
FUSEBOX Festival Blog (April 2019)

DIRECTOR/CURATOR

Leyya Mona Tawil

ARAB.AMP Advisory Board/

Pary El-Qalqili
Adam Fong
Ben Hall
Emily Jacir
​Mike Khoury
Ali Rosa-Salas
​Sharif Sehnaoui

DANCE ELIXIR Board of Directors/

Denise Beirnes
Marwa Helal
Maysoun Freij
Lenny Gonzalez

VENUE PARTNERS/

TAC: Temescal Art Center / OAKLAND
Abrons Art Center / NYC
Spectrum / BROOKLYN
Fusebox Festival / AUSTIN
Entropy Stereo / DETROIT
Rhizome DC / WASHINGTON DC
Pieter Performance Space / LOS ANGELES
​The Invisible Dog Art Center / BROOKLYN

Logo Design by Christopher Gazaleh​​

Arab.AMP is a program of DANCE ELIXIR 501c3 organization based in Oakland, California. DANCE ELIXIR is supported in part by the California Arts Council, City of Oakland Cultural Funding Program, Alliance for California Traditional Arts, East Bay Fund for Artists at the East Bay Community Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, Investing in Tomorrow Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation with support from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation and the Kenneth Rainin Foundation NEW program.