Di Buenos Días Si Es De Noche | Say Good Morning If It’s Night
World Premier | Tickets
March 15, 2025 | Esperanza Art Center
Directed and produced by Keila Cordova | 3 Pony Show
Lauded as a “thoroughly distinctive voice who sculpts multi-tiered tableaus teeming with vivid imagery” Esperanza Arts Center Artist In Residence’ Keila Cordova performs the world premiere of her new multidisciplinary work colliding fragments of Panamanian heritage, culture, and resistance featuring performances by Yesenia Escobar-Espitia, Venrick James, Cory Seals and Vyette Tiya, and music by Panamanian composer and guitarist, Emiliano Pardo-Tristán
The UMAMI Collective (2024/2025 season)
Directed by Rylee Prodigy | More Info
Training and performance company through Urban Movement Arts Philadelphia, specializing in waacking, vogue, heels, street jazz, hip-hop, and house dance styles.
Musical performances by Biliana Voutchkova, Isidora Edwards, Levi Lu, Aaron Pond
Dance performance by Vyette Tiya
Headlong Dance Theater | September 2024
Curated by Aaron Pond
About
O, Tomato! is a saucy, sensory, dance theater celebration of a widely-beloved, yet often misidentified, fruit. Created in partnership with local urban gardeners, O, Tomato! invites audiences to play, move, laugh, sing, squish, slice, and savor within community. Ay, tomate!
This interactive performance is a recognition of the tomato in all of its sizes, colors, and shapes, and a celebration of the urban gardeners, farmers, chefs, and bakers who give this special plant its ubiquitous and versatile life.
Produced by Marisol Soledad’s The Exuberance : an art-based platform for intergenerational play and connection in public space.
Performance by Livia Chesley and Vyette Tiya
Philadelphia Fringe Fest | September 2024
Photos by Ashley Smith of Wide Eyed Studios
Musical performances by Tracy Lisk, Nick Neuburg and Kevin Murray
Dance performances by Asimina Chremos, Mijkalena Smith, Vyette Tiya
Studio 34 Yoga Healing Arts | June 2024
Produced, choreographed, and performed by Vyette Tiya
Music by Daniel Sohn
Presented at STUDIO Works hosted by the Leah Stein Dance Company | June 2024
Musical performances by Levi Lu and Aaron Pond
Dance performance by Vyette Tiya
Headlong Dance Theater | April 6, 2024
Photos by Jessica Brown
Produced by Adam Kerbel
Developed and performed by a collective of movement artists
Spring 2024 | Pig Iron Theatre
Photos by Jano Cohen
Produced by Adam Kerbel
Developed and performed by a collection of movement artists
March 2024 | Fringe Arts
Photos by Jano Cohen
Description: Performa is a laboratory where artists create brave new dance and performance works in Philadelphia. Movement makers drop-in weekly to generate individualized, body-based compositions while working simultaneously alongside peers in a large, open air environment. Over the course of this 5- to 8-week long incubator series, every session is a chance to develop upon choreographic material or to start fresh.
Showcase produced by Emerald Sims
Solo performance and choreography by Vyette Tiya
Urban Movement Arts | February 24, 2024
Produced by Keila Cordova/3 Pony Show
Performed by Jaye Allison and Vyette Tiya
Philadelphia Fringe Festival | Icebox Project Space | September 2023
A Tree When No Moon Shines is a 45-minute multimedia dance theatre work that mixes storytelling with seeds concerning family, land & migration. It premiered September 2, 11 and 19 in The Cannonball Festival and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
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.
Directed by Catherine Ashley
Performance by Catherine Ashley, Daniel Sohn, Vyette Tiya, and Sophia Nelson
Projection Design by Cat Ashley
Graphic Design by Yanqii Deng
Scenic Design by Prithi Khalique
Movement direction by Vyette Tiya
As220 Black Box Theatre
Providence, Rhode Island | November 3, 2023
Choreographed and directed by Davalois Fearon
Princeton Dance Festival
Performance by Moses Abrahamson, Pippa La Macchia, Chris Park, Martinia Qua, Kate Stewart, Vyette Tiya, Jessica Waters
McCarter Theatre Center | December 2022
Music by Mike McGinnis
Photos by Maria Baranova/Lewis Center for the Arts
The tension between structure and chaos, mundane everyday movement, and physical virtuosity were used as tools to create I.D.G.A. (“I Don’t Give A” ), a commentary on aspects of toxic corporate culture. I.D.G.A. is dedicated to all who experienced corporate abuse and are now survivors and thrivers, “living their best life.” I.D.G.A. is an anthem for those who dare to seek internal well-being and genuine happiness, otherwise known as liberation.
Melanin Unscripted, Vox Creative, and Starbucks have come together to create an inspiring short film called “Capturing Kindness”. The film is a visual tribute to Black women photographers and their powerful impact on the world of visual storytelling. It showcases the work of several visionary photographers from the Black Women Photographers global collective, highlighting the beauty and resilience of Black and non-binary women in the visual arts industry.
Photos taken by Michal Petros
More Info: Melanin Unscripted | Vox | YouTube
Music by Daniel Sohn
Directed by RUPLING* (Ling Yu Yan & Katiana Weems)
Art Direction and costume design by Hee Eun Chung
Choreography by Vyette Tiya
Dancers: Lauris Bropleh, Francesca DiGiovanni, Emily Fan, Alison McBride, Kate Stewart, Vyette Tiya, Valerie Wang
Performance and choreography by Vyette Tiya
Music by Daniel Sohn
Philadelphia | July 2022
Produced and directed by Britta Joy Peterson
The Kennedy Center | October 2021
Performed by Amanda Blythe, Carolyn Hoehner, William Keiser, Dylan Lambert, Sydney Lemelin, Candace Scarborough, Vyette Tiya, and Zoe Wampler with research and collaboration by Amber Lucia Chabus
Produced and choreographed by Britta Joy Peterson
Photography direction and editing by Robert Woofter
Associate production by Olivia Weber
Videography by Aaron Tucker
Composed by Derek Blackstone
Performed by Malik Burnett, Annie Peterson, Vyette Tiya, Zoe Wampler
Dance film performed and choreographed by Vyette Tiya
Videography by Shannon Braine
September 2020 | More info
Curated by Washington Project for the Arts and darlingdance
“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?
Performed and choreographed by Dance Exchange Artists
Dance Place Theatre | June 2019
Photo courtesy of Dance Exchange
“External Organ”
Directed and choreographed by Britta Joy Peterson
Co-produced by Olivia Weber
Music by Derek Blackstone
Lighting Design by Evan Anderson
Performance and Choreographic Collaboration by Emily Ames, Amanda Blythe, Malik Burnett, Carolyn Hoehner, Dylan Lambert, Annie Peterson, Vyette Tiya, Zoe Wampler
Transforming Spaces/Continuous Bodies and Of Two Minds
Choreographed by Sergio Guerra Abril
Performed by ensemble
Katzen Arts Center | April 2018 and December 2018
Photos by Jade Levandofsky
Choreographed by Sarah Beth Oppenheim/Heart Stück Bernie
Performed by Ensemble
Smithsonian National Gallery of Art | May 2018
Photos by by Zachary Handler
(Re)Current Unrest
Choreographed by Charles O. Anderson
Greenberg Theatre | April 2018
Photo by Jeff Watts
Choreographed by Britta Joy Peterson
Performed by Alyssa O’Connor, Fangfei Lan, Sergio Guerra Abril, Vyette Tiya
Greenberg Theatre | April 2017
