From September 18 through October 13, the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) presents Crossing the Line Festival 2018, the 12th edition of its critically acclaimed interdisciplinary showcase for avant-garde creative talents from around the world.
The wide-ranging, thought-provoking lineup includes What Remains, a collaboration between choreographer Will Rawls, poet Claudia Rankine, and video artist John Lucas that explores the effects of surveillance — by others and by the self — on black Americans; the world premiere of film actress Jeanne Balibar’s one-woman show Les Historiennes, focusing on three influential French historians (who will also be on hand); French choreographer Boris Charmatz’s 10,000 Gestures, in which 20-odd dancers each perform thousands of unique, never-to-be-repeated movements to the sounds of Mozart’s Requiem; a fresh interpretation of Yasmina Reza’s hit play Art staged by the theater collectives tg STAN of Belgium and Dood Paard of the Netherlands; and a performance of a new “psycho-acoustic” work by Brooklyn-based French composer Leila Bordreuil, complete with mind-bending visual projections.
Full Program
Trajal Harrell: Caen Amour
September 18, 19
The Kitchen
Claudia Huidobro: Faite Main (Hand-Made)
September 22-October 13
FIAF Gallery
Mohamed El Khatib: A Beautiful Ending
September 22
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
David Geselson: Unwritten Letters
September 22
FIAF Le Skyroom
Will Rawls, Claudia Rankine and John Lucas: What Remains
September 25, 27, 28, 29
Danspace Project
Leila Bordreuil: Episodes et Mutations
September 26
ISSUE Project Room
Boris Charmatz: 10000 gestures
September 27, 28
NYU Skirball
An Evening with Syhem Belkhodja
October 2
FIAF Skyroom
Mette Ingvartsen: 21 Pornographies
October 3, 5
Performance Space New York
Nacera Belaza: Sur le Fil
October 4, 5
Danspace Project
Nacera Belaza: Sur le Fil, La Nuit, and La Traversée
October 6
Danspace Project
tg STAN and Dood Paard: Art
October 4, 6
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Bridging Symposium: Performing the Collective
October 7
Gibney
Nora Chipaumire: #PUNK 100% POP *N!GGA
October 11, 13
The Kitchen
Jeanne Balibar: Les Historiennes (The Historians)
October 13
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
=> Visit crossingthelinefestival.org for tickets and more information[:]
