L’Alliance New York is thrilled to announce the 2025 Crossing the Line Pageant, working from September 9 to November 22, 2025, throughout premier venues in New York Metropolis. This 18th version presents a daring worldwide lineup of artists pushing the boundaries of visible artwork, music, movie, dance, and theater, providing audiences a transformative expertise by means of progressive performances and installations.
“Greater, bolder, and extra boisterous than ever, the 18th Crossing The Line pageant guarantees to be our most enjoyable version but. For 3 months the pageant will journey throughout New York Metropolis for electrical performances that includes artists from world wide. With movie, music, dance, theater, set up, and efficiency, the lineup options quite a few North American premieres, new voices and returning favorites. Along with our dedication to works from the French-speaking world that remember range, inclusion and hope, we’re proud to assist US-based artists representing the urgency of dialogue on this nation and throughout oceans,” mentioned Violaine Huisman, Creative Director.
The pageant’s dance highlights are a testomony to its dedication to innovation. Motion on motion by Noé Soulier (Sept. 24–25, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom) is a New York Premiere that blends modern dance with a lecture-performance impressed by William Forsythe’s Improvisation Applied sciences. bLUr by Kimberly Bartosik (Oct. 2–4, 7:30pm, New York Reside Arts), a World Premiere, navigates a visceral panorama of disaster and tenderness by means of 5 performers’ intense physicality. On Governors Island, delicate folks by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard (Oct. 4, 12:45pm & 2:45pm, rain date Oct. 5) provides a North American Premiere of vignettes exploring identification by means of finely tuned actions. Childs returns with Blast! (Oct. 8–10, 7pm, The Chocolate Manufacturing facility Theater), a North American Premiere that creates a rhythmic dialogue with percussive sound design by Stéphane Vecchione.
Wanjiru Kamuyu’s Fragmented Shadows (Oct. 15–17, 7:30pm, New York Reside Arts), a U.S. Premiere, makes use of dance as a website for therapeutic, grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic analysis. Le Tambour de Soie (The Silk Drum) (Oct. 24–25, 8pm, Japan Society), a North American Premiere by Yoshi Oïda, Kaori Ito, and collaborators, reimagines a Noh play by means of a dancer’s narrative. Le Grand Bal by Compagnie Dyptik (Oct. 28–Nov. 1, 7:30pm; Nov. 1, 2pm, The Joyce Theater) makes its North American Premiere, mixing fashionable and hip-hop dance right into a frenetic, hypnotic spectacle. Soa Ratsifandrihana’s Fampitaha, fampita, fampitàna (Oct. 28–30, 7:30pm, Powerhouse Arts), a U.S. Premiere, weaves dance, music, and storytelling to mirror her Madagascan roots and diasporic expertise. For youthful audiences, Coquilles by Amala Dianor (Nov. 15, 11:30am & 3pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom) delivers a North American Premiere of a swish, accessible dance narrative. Closing the dance lineup, [siccer] by Will Rawls (Nov. 20–22, 7:30pm, Efficiency House New York) is a New York Premiere inspecting Black vernacular and media illustration by means of motion.
Past dance, the pageant opens with D’Est en musique (Sept. 9, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater), a New York Premiere that includes cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg performing a rating impressed by Chantal Akerman’s 1993 travelogue. Les tutomouves by Clédat & Petitpierre (Sept. 13–Dec. 19, L’Alliance New York First Flooring Gallery) is a North American Premiere of an interactive exhibition-workshop with colourful foam sculptures. Theater choices embrace Marion Siéfert’s The Massive Sleep (Le Grand Sommeil) (Sept. 17, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom), Rimini Protokoll’s All proper. Good evening. (Sept. 25–27, 7:30pm, NYU Skirball), Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s LACRIMA (Oct. 22, 24–25, 7:30pm; Oct. 26, 3pm, BAM Robust Harvey Theater), Carolina Bianchi’s The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella (Oct. 23–25, 7:30pm, Powerhouse Arts), and Tiago Rodrigues’ By Coronary heart (Nov. 3–4, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater), a “miraculous” collective memorization expertise.
For tickets and extra info, go to https://lallianceny.org/crossing-the-line-festival/
