Connaissez-vous l’atalaku? Incomparable scansion en mode ‘dédicace’ chez la déesse Rumba.
Fille de Mutare au Zimbabwe, Nora Chipaumire, «The Rock Star of Dance» de The New Yorker, donne # PUNK 100% POP *NIGGA en 1ère mondiale au Kitchen de NYC.
Performance dansée en triptyque, pour honorer Patti Smith, Grace Jones et Kin-la-liesse personnifiée par l’atalaku Ruth Nzele.
Mix vintage et afro-futuriste, esthétique exploratoire des marges et de la mémoire programmée par le festival Crossing the Line de FIAF – French Institute Alliance Francaise (Marie Monique Steckel, Courtney Geraghty, Eva Chien).
Un ovni franco-ricain en bonne correspondance avec le disruptant cycle New Settings de la fondation d’entreprise Hermès ( Frédéric Hubin, Quentin Guisgand), l’Institut des arts créatifs de University of Cape Town et Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts.
©Antoine Tempé
Each year, Crossing The Line brings the most compelling French and international artists to New York City in works that transcend nationality, language, and discipline. The twelfth edition of the festival will feature sixteen trailblazing artists and ensembles presenting new works and performances—including a dozen world, US, and NY premieres—in seven venues across the city.
« From sharing the influence of female visionaries from France to a play that asks us what is art, » says Marie-Monique Steckel, President of FIAF, « this year’s Crossing The Line Festival engages with pertinent questions facing our society and allows us to build a deeper understanding across perceived boundaries. »
At FIAF, the festival will present performances by artists employing spoken and written language in creative, provocative, and poignant ways: French film star Jeanne Balibar; French artist David Geselson; French theater maker Mohamed El Khatib; Paris-based Claudia Huidobro; and Belgian and Dutch theater collectives, tg STAN and Dood Paard.
Around town, the festival will present several major new works by leading artists including Algerian-born dancer and choreographer Nacera Belaza at Danspace Project; Tunisian-French choreographer and activist Syhem Belkhodja at Gibney and FIAF; New York-based French composer Leila Bordreuil at ISSUE Project Room; French choreographer Boris Charmatz at NYU Skirball; Zimbabwe-born, New York–based nora chipaumire and New Yorker Trajal Harrell at The Kitchen; Danish choreographer and dancer Mette Ingvartsen at Performance Space New York; and American artists, choreographer Will Rawls and poet Claudia Rankine, at Danspace Project.
