For three months this fall, L’Alliance New York presents Crossing The Line, an international survey of new collisions and experiments in audience and form. Art lovers will experience boundary-breaking visual art, music, film, dance, and theater at prestigious venues across New York City, including L’Alliance New York, BAM, New York Live Arts, NYU Skirball Center, The Joyce Theater, and more! Festival highlights include film and music by Sonia Wieder-Atherton & Chantal Akerman; an exhibition workshop by Clédat & Petitpierre; theater work by Caroline Guiela Nguyen and Tiago Rodrigues; and dance by Ruth Childs, Kimberly Bartosik, and Will Rawls. Join us!

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D’Est en musique
Chantal Akerman, Sonia Wieder-Atherton,

Sarah Rothenberg
Sep 9 at 7:30pm  

L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater  

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman envisioned this live, musical take on her 1993 travelogue D’Est in 2005 with her partner, the cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton. Now, in this New York Premiere, Wieder-Atherton performs her curated score alongside award-winning pianist, Sarah Rothenberg.

Presented in collaboration with MoMA

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Les tutomouves
Clédat & Petitpierre 
Sep 13–Dec 19
L’Alliance New York Gallery 

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

As a lighter version of the monumental installation Les plantamouves originally created for the Centre Pompidou in Paris, this exhibition-workshop combines the tactile whimsy of mobile sculpture with interactive dance, inviting audiences of all ages to engage with more than 240 vibrantly colorful foam pieces through inventive video tutorials. 

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The Big Sleep (Le Grand Sommeil) 
Marion Siéfert, Helena de Laurens 
Sep 17 at 7:30pm  
L’Alliance New York Skyroom 

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Back at L’Alliance New York after her acclaimed Crossing The Line 2022 debut, _jeanne_dark_, Marion Siéfert brings another ferocious collaboration with actress Helena de Laurens that embodies the tortures and triumphs of teenage girlhood. 

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Movement on movement 
Noé Soulier 

Sep 24–25 at 7:30pm 

L’Alliance New York Skyroom 

NEW YORK PREMIERE

One of the rising stars of French contemporary dance, Noé Soulier crafts a lecture-performance based on William Forsythe's Improvisation Technologies—a series of educational demonstrations in which Forsythe draws shapes with different parts of his body. 

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All right. Good night. 
Rimini Protokoll, Barbara Morgenstern, the Zafraan Ensemble 

Sep 25–27 at 7:30pm

NYU Skirball

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

In All right. Good night., acclaimed director Helgard Haug weaves together the disappearance of Flight MH370 and her father's decline into dementia. With a live score by Barbara Morgenstern and the Zafraan Ensemble, the piece evokes the emotional weight of absence. It asks what remains when someone—or something—is no longer there. 

Presented in partnership with NYU Skirball Center for The Performing Arts

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bLUr 
Kimberly Bartosik

Oct 2–4 at 7:30pm 

New York Live Arts 

WORLD PREMIERE

Built in haunting cycles of physical and emotional extremes, bLUr exists within a corporeal landscape of crisis. Five performers navigate urgent interventions, tender and brutal rescues, moving through a space of howling hunger and deeply erotic tenderness with exquisite humanity. 

Co-Presented with New York Live Arts

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delicate people 
Cécile Bouffard, Ruth Childs 

Oct 4 (Rain date: Sun, Oct 5) at 12:45pm & 2:45pm 

Governors Island 

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Dancer Ruth Childs and sculptor Cécile Bouffard initiated their delicate people collaboration in 2021. In this latest series of vignettes, the artists address figures and motifs of disturbing identities and fine-tuned movements. 

Co-Presented by L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival and Governors Island Arts’ INTERVENTIONS performance series

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Blast! 
Ruth Childs 

Oct 8–10 at 7:00pm 

The Chocolate Factory Theater 

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Creating a choreographic circle in dialogue with percussive sound design by Stéphane Vecchione, Blast! is a study of how human bodies express themselves.  

Co-presented with the Chocolate Factory Theater

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Fragmented Shadows 
Wanjiru Kamuyu 

Oct 15–17 at 7:30pm 

New York Live Arts 

U.S. PREMIERE

How can we use the body as a site of liberation, a site of healing? Grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic research, Wanjiru Kamuyu offers voice and light to embodied legacies of inherited and personal suffering.

Co-Presented with New York Live Arts

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BAM in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing The Line Festival Presents
LACRIMA 

Caroline Guiela Nguyen 
Oct 22, Oct 24 & Oct 25 at 7:30pm

Oct 26 at 3:00pm
BAM Strong  

U.S. PREMIERE

A Parisian house of haute couture receives an extraordinary commission. Over a period of several months and under the oath of utmost secrecy, more than thirty women and men will be hard at work in a Parisian workshop, making lace in Alençon and sewing embroideries in Mumbai. Interconnecting their stories into a choral form, Caroline Guiela Nguyen narrates the lives of this hidden workforce. 

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Le Tambour de Soie (The Silk Drum) 

Yoshi Oïda, Kaori Ito, Paul Lazar, Makoto Yabuki 

Oct 24–25 at 8:00pm 

Japan Society  

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Stripping a beloved Noh play down to its core, this Festival d’Avignon hit tells the human drama between an old man desperate to feel young again and the beautiful dancer made complicit in his downfall.  

Presented by Japan Society in partnership with Crossing The Line Festival

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Le Grand Bal 

Compagnie Dyptik  

Oct 28–Nov 1 at 7:30pm

Nov 1 at 2:00pm 

The Joyce Theater  

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Acclaimed across Europe, Compagnie Dyptik makes its North American Premiere with this singularly hypnotic work that blends modern and hip-hop dance styles into a frenetic dance fever.  

The Joyce’s presentation of Dyptik is in association with L’Alliance New York’s Crossing the Line Festival

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By Heart 

Tiago Rodrigues 

Nov 3–4 at 7:30pm 

L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater 

Ten audience members come together onstage for an act of collective memorization, learning a Shakespearean sonnet by heart under the direction of acclaimed international theater artist Tiago Rodrigues. The results, according to a New York Times Critics’ Pick review, are “miraculous.”  

Presented in association with BAM

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Coquilles 

Amala Dianor, Milane Cathala-Di Fabrizio, Estanis Radureau 

Nov 15 at 11:30am & 3:00pm 

L’Alliance New York Skyroom  

NORTH AMERICAN PREMIERE

Created for audiences as young as one year old, this rousing piece for two dancers crafts a graceful, accessible story of contrasting physicality, shared language, and connection across difference. 

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[siccer] 

Will Rawls
Nov 20–22 at 7:30pm 

Performance Space New York

NEW YORK PREMIERE

Driven by the usage of “[sic],” a Latin adverb which indicates incorrect spelling within a quotation, often employed to contrast Black vernacular with standard English, Will Rawls’ [siccer] considers the ways in which Black bodies are relentlessly documented, distorted, and circulated in the media. 

Co-Presented with Performance Space New York

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Leadership Support for Crossing The Line
Howard Gilman Foundation and The Wescustogo Foundation.

L’Alliance New York’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the Support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

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