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Crossing the Line is a platform for transformation. A festival of new work that enables all of us to re-imagine the way we exist in the world, the way we look at the world, and the way we sense and experience the world. Crossing the Line works with artists who, perhaps, have their origins in more traditional or specific disciplinary practices like dance, music, film, visual arts, and cuisine; but who, by re-inventing their relationships to those practices, are completely transforming the practices themselves.

Conceived to focus on vibrant new works by a diverse range of artists working in France and New York, Crossing the Line is initiated and produced by FIAF in partnership with leading New York cultural institutions.

Whether by performing shopping, watching sounds, composing films, or reading movements, we invite audiences from all walks of life to join in exploring, sensing, and tasting a unique collection of outstanding new works and experiences—all while discovering new revelations with each of these truly extraordinary artists.

Lili Chopra & Simon DoveCo-curatorsCrossing the Line 2009

Crossing the LineFIAF Fall Festival 2009September 12–October 3

Artists Co-presented with

AIDS-3DGermaine AcognyInaki AizpitarteJulie AndrieuBettina AtalaOlivier Babin Pascal BarbotNacera BelazaMichel BrasBruce High Quality FoundationAmelie ChabannesDavid ChangSteven CohenOdile DubocOlivier DuboisWylie DufresneAlexandre GauthierRaimund HogheAlice Guy BlachéTrajal HarrellMaria HassabiDavid KinchLatifa LaâbissiMarie Losier Marie MaillardJulia MandleMichikazu Matsune & David SubalMissy MazzoliTamar MuskalMetamkineShoplifterTender ForeverVisual SystemNick van WoertMichael L. YingerDu Yun

Anthology Film ArchivesBaryshnikov Arts CenterCabinetCPR–Center for Performance ResearchDanspace ProjectDance Theater Workshop Luxe GalleryMacy’sNew MuseumNYC Department of Parks & RecreationOmnivorePerformance Space 122Whitney Museum of American Art

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Free and open to the publicSee p. 13 for details

Macy’s Herald Square Windows along Broadway and 34th StFree and open to the public

Free and opento the public See p. 13 for location and hours

In French and EnglishTinker AuditoriumLe SkyroomFlorence Gould Hall

For prices and full details see fiaf.org

Special thanks to FUSED, American Airlines and the NYC Department of Parks & Recreation.

Co-curated by Julie Boukobza.

Opening Celebration! Le Bal NYCSaturday, September 12 2–6pmCentral Park’s East Meadow Crossing the Line 2009 opens with Le Bal NYC, a dance party/picnic in Central Park’s East Meadow. Choreographers from France, including Germaine Acogny, Odile Duboc, Latifa Laâbissi, and Olivier Dubois present a fresh new take on the bal populaire, creating short dances to be taught section by section to the public.

Simultaneously, Omnivore New York, a brigade of innovative master chefs from both France and New York, reinvent the idea of the picnic. Samples of Crossing the Line Bento Boxes will be available, bringing together individual elements by Inaki Aizpitarte, Pascal Barbot, Alexandre Gauthier, Michel Bras, David Chang, and Wylie Dufresne.

Bring your own picnic, and join us for this free, family-friendly celebration in the park.

Marie MaillardWall 0909Sunday, August 30– Saturday, September 26Luxe Gallery Celebrated artist Marie Maillard comes to the Luxe Gallery to present the world premiere of Wall 0909, an exhibition created especially for Crossing the Line.

Maillard’s work combines the concepts of both video and wallpaper. One is concrete, the other is transient; one is decorative and made as background, the other often complex and pithy. In Wall 0909, Maillard creates elegant and enigmatic hybrids, designed to question the relationship between body and the occupation of space.

Maillard will also create a special video installation to be displayed at FIAF in Florence Gould Hall throughout Crossing the Line 2009.

Macy’sTuesday, September 8–Thursday, September 17Macy’s Herald Square Macy’s legendary windows become the site for artists and fashion designers to come together as part of the store’s special ongoing series, Art Under Glass. Eleven French and American artists have been invited to create installations especially for these highly visible showcase windows. This temporary sidewalk gallery will place multimedia displays by these potent young artists in relation to the new, exclusive fusion collection Rachel Rachel Roy. Free and open to the public 24/7, Macy’s windows will take on a whole new life as night falls.

Windows will feature the work of: AIDS-3D, Olivier Babin, Michael Brown, Bruce High Quality Foundation, Alice Guy Blaché, Marie Losier (with Aya Kakeda and François Leloup-Collet), Marie Maillard/Amelie Chabannes, Shoplifter, Visual System, Nick van Woert, and Michael L. Yinger.

Omnivore New York Sunday, September 13 FIAF 1:30–2:45pm Inventing Cuisine: Michel Bras (film)3:00–4:30pm Michel Bras Q&A with Julie Andrieu5pm Shadows and Light: Cooking Duets

Crossing the Line teams up with Luc Dubanchet and his France-based Omnivore brigade to create an entire day of culinary exploration at FIAF with some of the most transformative chefs of our time.

A screening of the documentary Inventing Cuisine: Michel Bras, attended by the filmmaker and the world-renowned chef, is followed by an intimate conversation with Julie Andrieu. Shadows and Light then brings together American and French chefs for live cooking “duets” between Wylie Dusfresne/Inaki Aizpitarte, David Kinch/Pascal Barbot, and David Chang/Alexandre Gauthier.

The visiting chefs will also be cooking at David Chang and Wylie Dufresne’s restaurants on Monday, September 14.

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FreeReservations requiredSee p. 13 for details

$12 FIAF and Danspace Project Members $18 Non-Members

Free and opento the public See p. 13 for location and hours

$15 FIAF and Anthology Film Archives Members$20 Non-Members

CulturesFrance is proud to present Steven Cohen as part of Crossing the Line 2009.

Made possible with generous support from the Jean-Luc Lagardère Foundation and CulturesFrance.

Supported by CulturesFrance, DRAC and Région Rhône-Alpes. Special thanks to Andrew Lampert and Marie Losier.

Supported by CulturesFrance, FACE, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and FUSED/ the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Steven CohenKnock ‘Em DeadWednesday–Thursday,September 16–17 at 7:30pmCPR–Center for Performance Research Steven Cohen culminates his research residency at Baryshnikov Arts Center and CPR with a special presentation/performance as part of Crossing the Line.

Knock ‘Em Dead is an evening of film, images, and live performance that incorporates video fragments of some of Cohen’s public interventions and draws inspiration from the small cemeteries that survive in the “city that never sleeps”. It aims to look at the idea of “motionlessness” and silence in the noisy and actively congested Manhattan city space. In a city defined by neighborhoods, Manhattan’s cemeteries bridge racial, cultural, and religious boundaries—much like Cohen’s own body of work.

Visual SystemA Digital Experience.. .Wednesday, September 16– Saturday, October 17FIAF Gallery Visual System (VS) is a collective created in 2007 whose projects explore the role of digital media in the city of the future. Straight from Paris and Shanghai, the FIAF Gallery hosts A Digital Experience.. . an interactive exhibit featuring three installations created by four of the collective’s artists: Olivier Pasquet, Djeff Regottaz, Bastien Ribeiro, and Valère Terrier.

Within the framework of creating a completely digital megalopolis, A Digital Experience.. . presents different aspects of digital contemporary art, immersing the viewer into a network of poetic and interactive works. A musical composition by Olivier Pasquet (IRCAM) accents and completes the digital universe.

Nacera BelazaLe CriThursday–Saturday, September 17–19 at 8pmDanspace Project Since founding her company in 1989, choreographer and dancer Nacera Belaza has created a body of work that succeeds in questioning the codes of dance and religion with a personal style that mixes beauty and austerity. Presented by Danspace Project as part of Crossing the Line 2009, Belaza’s Le Cri is faithful to her way of life and view of the world, in that it is characterized by its restraint. At the same time the duet, which Belaza dances together with her sister, is overflowing with sensuality. It is a musing on human life and our desire for spirituality, without losing sight of pleasure and enjoyment.

MetamkineFriday, September 18 at 8pmFIAF, Florence Gould HallCo-presented with Anthology Film Archives Founded in 1987 and based in Grenoble, Metamkine (known in French as La Cellule d’Intervention Metamkine) is made up of musician Jérôme Noetinger and filmmakers Christophe Auger and Xavier Quérel. The trio’s research into the relationship between image and sound has resulted in works they refer to as live “musico-cinematic” creations. Through the use of mirrors, multiple projectors, a live soundtrack of tape fragments, and ingenious on-stage editing, they produce and direct a new film live—simultaneously a performance and its document. A sensory immersion that must be experienced to be believed, Metamkine is brought to Crossing the Line in cooperation with Anthology Film Archives.

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Julia MandleFabrication of BlindnessSaturday, September 19– Sunday, September 27Cabinet Initiated in residence at Baryshnikov Arts Center and further developed for this special exhibition, Julia Mandle’s astonishing Fabrication of Blindness comes to Cabinet in Brooklyn.

Inspired by the work of French war photographer Jean-Marc Bouju, the centerpiece of the installation is a large dark cloud made out of black military sandbags. On the sandbags appear words from letters, stories, and poems written by political detainees, collected by Mandle, and embroidered during a series of sewing circles in NYC and DC.

Stunning in its emotional impact, Fabrication of Blindness highlights the ways in which art can play a powerful role in instigating change and community action. Special programs will accompany the installation, including new Brooklyn sewing circles.

Bettina AtalaSeason 1 episode 2Tuesday, September 22 at 8pmFIAF, Florence Gould Hall Part film, part theater, part reality television… Bettina Atala’s Season 1 episode 2 examines its own production process step by step, as it is being created in front of the audience. The hilarious and thoughtful work questions the concepts of mass media, Big Brother, and the boundaries of reality and fiction—while offering a delightful critique of social norms and structures.

Known to New York audiences for her work with French performance group Grand Magasin, Bettina Atala will also recruit a troupe of local New York performers for this very special NYC version of Season 1 episode 2.

Raimund HogheBoléro VariationsWednesday–Friday, September 23–25 at 7:30pmDance Theater Workshop

Raimund Hoghe L’Après-midiSaturday, September 26 at 4pmDanspace Project

Performer and choreographer Raimund Hoghe’s work questions conceptions of difference and expectations of the dancing body, advocating inclusive views of humanity and acceptance and celebration of self and others.

Created in Paris in 2007 and co-presented with Dance Theater Workshop, Boléro Variations features the music of Ravel’s Boléro, folksongs, and the soundtrack from the TV broadcast of Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean’s ice-dancing performance at the 1984 Olympics in Sarajevo.

The three-night run of Boléro Variations will be followed by a single performance of Hoghe’s L’Après-midi at Danspace Project. The piece is inspired by Vaslav Nijinski’s legendary 1912 interpretation of a Stéphane Mallarmé poem, L’Après-midi d’un faune. Revisiting this piece nearly a century later, Hoghe explores the exquisite presence of the young dancer Emmanuel Eggermont in a radiant solo performance.

Free and open to the public See p. 13 for location and hours

Boléro Variations$12 FIAF and DTW Members$15 Non-Members

In English$15 FIAF Members $20 Non-Members

Special thanks to American Airlines, Flux Factory, and Marie Losier.

Raimund Hoghe’s U.S. tour is supported by the Federal Foreign Office and the Goethe-Institut New York. Special thanks to Aria Limousine.

Made possible by J Mandle Performance, NYSCA, DCA, Gilbert MacKay Foundation, King’s Fountain Foundation, Henphil Pillsbury Fund of the Minneapolis Foundation, and James E. Robison Foundation.

L’Après-midi $12 FIAF and Danspace Project Members $18 Non-Members

Partial support by 2009–10 Danspace Project Commissioning Initiative with Jerome Foundation, Working Title Festival/Workspace Brussels, Festival Artdanthé/Théâtre de Vanves, Wp Zimmer & Tanzhaus.10 11

Alice Guy Blaché Film Score Project with Missy Mazzoli, Tamar Muskal, Tender Forever, and Du YunTuesday, September 29 at 8pmFIAF, Florence Gould HallCo-presented with Whitney Live / Whitney Museum of American Art

In collaboration with Whitney Live, Crossing the Line presents four contemporary composers “in dialogue” with pioneering filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968) as part of the Whitney’s upcoming retrospective of her career.

Missy Mazzoli, Tamar Muskal, Tender Forever (Mélanie Valera), and Du Yun will compose scores for films by Guy Blaché, the first-ever female filmmaker, and perform live interactions with the films themselves —simultaneously investigating contemporary composition and performance.

matsune & subalstoreWednesday–Saturday, September 30–October 3Luxe Gallery Four days only! More than 60 amazing and astonishing products to choose from! Priced to sell! No budget too small!

With both ingenuity and humor, store questions the consumption of art and our consumption of the consumption culture. It lets audiences/customers/viewers analyze their own roles as consumers of performance and as performers of consumption, as they purchase individualized performance products that they may consume on the spot, take away, or get delivered in the mail. There’s always a bargain in store!

Maria HassabiSOLO SHOWTuesday–Saturday, September 29–October 3at 7:30pmSunday, October 4 at 5:30pmPerformance Space 122 SOLO SHOW is a new diptych work by Maria Hassabi, commissioned by Crossing the Line, PERFORMA, and Performance Space 122, and composed of two evening-long solos. The first, entitled Solo, will premiere as part of Crossing the Line 2009, while the second will premiere as part of PERFORMA 09.

In Solo, Hassabi performs with a Persian area carpet. The carpet becomes, variously, a prop object, an outer skin, and architecture. These shifts describe the negotiation of desire in a dancing figure as it approaches visibility within the space of a given frame. This desire manifests itself as a changing temporal process, as complex and interwoven as the many patterns in the carpet.

Trajal HarrellTwenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church (S)Thursday–Friday, October 1–2 at 7pmNew MuseumCo-presented with Danspace Project

Twenty Looks or Paris is Burning at the Judson Church is the collective and shared title of five dances in five sizes: Extra Small (XS), Small (S), Medium (M), Large (L), and Extra Large (XL), choreographed by Trajal Harrell. This new work explores the question, “What would have happened in 1963 if someone from the voguing ball scene in Harlem had come downtown to perform alongside the early postmoderns at Judson Church?”

The (S) version, co-presented by the New Museum and Danspace Project in association with Crossing the Line, is a solo performance by Trajal Harrell featuring work by visual artist Franklin Evans.

In English and French$15 FIAF and Whitney Members$20 Non-Members

See p. 13 for location and hours

$15 FIAF Members with code CTL$20 Non-Members$30 Both shows

$15 FIAF, New Museum, and Danspace Project Members$18 Non-Members

With funding from the National Performance Network, MCAF supported by the NYCDepartment of Cultural Affairs, administered by LMCC and The Brown Foundation, Inc. of Houston.

With the support of the Austrian Cultural Forum.Special thanks to American Airlines.

Sponsored by American Express. Funding for Whitney Live is provided by the Whitney Live Producers.

AugustSunday 30 Marie Maillard • Wall 0909 • Exhibition Opens Luxe SeptemberTuesday 8 Macy’s • Exhibition Opens MA Saturday 12 Opening Celebration • Le Bal NYC • 2–6pm CPSunday 13 Omnivore NY • Inventing Cuisine: Michel Bras • 1:30pm TASunday 13 Omnivore NY • Michel Bras in Conversation with Julie Andrieu • 3pm SKY Sunday 13 Omnivore NY • Shadows and Light: Cooking Duets • 5pm FGHMonday 14 Omnivore NY • Visiting Chef Dinners VariousWednesday 16 Visual System • A Digital Experience.. . • Exhibition Opens GALWednesday 16 Steven Cohen • Knock ‘Em Dead • 7:30pm CPRThursday 17 Steven Cohen • Knock ‘Em Dead • 7:30pm CPRThursday 17 Nacera Belaza • Le Cri • 8pm DSP Friday 18 Nacera Belaza • Le Cri • 8pm DSP Friday 18 Metamkine • 8pm FGH Saturday 19 Nacera Belaza • Le Cri • 8pm DSP Saturday 19 Julia Mandle • Fabrication of Blindness • Exhibition Opens • 5–8pm CABMonday 21 Julia Mandle • Artist Talk • 7pm CABTuesday 22 Bettina Atala • Season 1 episode 2 • 8pm FGHWednesday 23 Raimund Hoghe • Boléro Variations • 7:30pm DTWThursday 24 Raimund Hoghe • Boléro Variations • 7:30pm DTWFriday 25 Raimund Hoghe • Boléro Variations • 7:30pm DTWSaturday 26 Julia Mandle • Embroidery Circle • 1–5pm CABSaturday 26 Raimund Hoghe • L’ Après-midi • 4pm DSP Sunday 27 Julia Mandle • Embroidery Circle • 1–5pm CABTuesday 29 Maria Hassabi • SOLO SHOW / Solo • 7:30pm PS122Tuesday 29 Alice Guy Blaché Film Score Project • 8pm FGHWednesday 30 matsune & subal • store • 6–9pm LuxeWednesday 30 Maria Hassabi • SOLO SHOW / Solo • 7:30pm PS122OctoberThursday 1 matsune & subal • store • 12–3pm, 4–7pm LuxeThursday 1 Trajal Harrell • Twenty Looks (S) • 7pm NMThursday 1 Maria Hassabi • SOLO SHOW / Solo • 7:30pm PS122 Friday 2 matsune & subal • store • 12–3pm, 4–7pm LuxeFriday 2 Trajal Harrell • Twenty Looks (S) • 7pm NM Friday 2 Maria Hassabi • SOLO SHOW / Solo • 7:30pm PS122 Saturday 3 matsune & subal • store • 12–3pm, 4–7pm LuxeSaturday 3 Maria Hassabi • SOLO SHOW / Solo • 7:30pm PS122

French Institute Alliance Française FGH Florence Gould HallTA Tinker Auditorium55 East 59th Street (between Madison & Park aves)SKY Le Skyroom22 East 60th Street (between Madison & Park aves)GAL FIAF Gallery22 East 60th Street (between Madison & Park aves)Hours: Tue–Fri, 11am–6pm / Sat, 11am–5pm

Ticketing 212 307 4100 / fiaf.org Information 212 355 6160Subway 4, 5, 6 to 59th Street / N, R, W to 5th AvenueE to 53rd Street & 5th Avenue

CPR CPR–Center for Performance Research 361 Manhattan Avenue, Unit 1 (at Jackson Avenue), Brooklyn, NY 11211Reservations info@cprnyc.org / cprnyc.orgSubway L to Graham Avenue

DTW Dance Theater Workshop219 West 19th Street (between 7th & 8th avenues) Subway 1 to 18th Street / A, C, E to 14th StreetTicketing 212 924 0077 / dancetheaterworkshop.org

Luxe Luxe Gallery53 Stanton St (between Forsyth & Eldridge streets)Hours: Wednesday–Sunday, 11am–6pmMonday–Tuesday, by appointment onlyT: 212 582 4425 / luxegallery.netSubway F, V to Second Avenue / F, J, M, Z to Delancey Street

PS122 Performance Space 122150 First Avenue (between Ninth & Tenth streets)Ticketing 212 352 3101 / ps122.orgSubway 6 to Astor Place / L to 1st AvenueF, V to 2nd Avenue / R, W to 8th Street/NYU

CAB Cabinet300 Nevins Street (at Union Street)Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY 11217Information 718 222 8434 / cabinetmagazine.org Subway M, R to Union Street / F, G to Carroll StreetHours: Tue–Sun, 12–6pm

CP Central Park—East MeadowEnter on Fifth Avenue and 99th StreetSubway 6 to 96 St / 2, 3 to Central Park North/110 Street DSP Danspace ProjectSt. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street at Second AvenueTicketing 866 811 4111 / danspaceproject.org Subway 6 to Astor Place / R, W to 8th Street/NYU MA Macy’sWindows along Broadway & 34th Street / macys.comSubway 1, 2, 3 to 34th Street Penn Station B, D, F, N, Q, R, V, W to 34th Street Herald SquareHours: 24/7 NM New Museum235 Bowery (at Prince Street between Stanton & Rivington Streets)Ticketing 212 219 1222 / newmuseum.orgSubway 6 to Spring Street / N, R, W to Prince Street

Calendar of Events Locations & Ticketing

Crossing the LineFIAF Fall Festival 2009September 12–October 3

www.fiaf.org/crossingtheline

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Co-curator Simon Dove’s participation in Crossing the Line is made possible with support from the School of Dance, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, Arizona State University

Cultural Services of the French Embassy

Robert de Rothschild

Société des Auteurs Compositeurs et Dramatiques

Tiger Veda Management, LLC

FIAF Season Partners

The official airline of FIAF

Florence Gould Foundation

New York State Council of the Arts

Crossing the LineFIAF Fall Festival 2009 Partners & Sponsors

Photos p. 4 © Patricia Furtado© Marie Maillardp. 5 © Hrafnhildur Arnardóttir© Laurent Seminel – Omnivorep. 6 © Marianne Greber-VBK Wien, © Valère Terrierp. 7 © Laurent Philippe, © Jennifer Frenchp. 8 © Kevin Rogers, © Bettina Attalap. 9 © Rosa Frankp. 10 © Alice Guy Blaché, © Marcelo Krasilcicp. 11 © matsune & subal, © Miana Grafals Design Philippe Apeloig, Alexandra Brand, and Mathilde Roussel-Giraudy

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