L’Alliance New York is thrilled to announce the 2025 Crossing the Line Festival, running from September 9 to November 22, 2025, across premier venues in New York City. This 18th edition presents a bold international lineup of artists pushing the boundaries of visual art, music, film, dance, and theater, offering audiences a transformative experience through innovative performances and installations.
“Bigger, bolder, and more boisterous than ever, the 18th Crossing The Line festival promises to be our most exciting edition yet. For three months the festival will travel across New York City for electric performances featuring artists from around the world. With film, music, dance, theater, installation, and performance, the lineup features numerous North American premieres, new voices and returning favorites. In addition to our commitment to works from the French-speaking world that celebrate diversity, inclusion and hope, we are proud to support US-based artists representing the urgency of dialogue in this country and across oceans,” said Violaine Huisman, Artistic Director.
The festival’s dance highlights are a testament to its commitment to innovation. Movement on movement by Noé Soulier (Sept. 24–25, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom) is a New York Premiere that blends contemporary dance with a lecture-performance inspired by William Forsythe’s Improvisation Technologies. bLUr by Kimberly Bartosik (Oct. 2–4, 7:30pm, New York Live Arts), a World Premiere, navigates a visceral landscape of crisis and tenderness through five performers’ intense physicality. On Governors Island, delicate people by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard (Oct. 4, 12:45pm & 2:45pm, rain date Oct. 5) offers a North American Premiere of vignettes exploring identity through finely tuned movements. Childs returns with Blast! (Oct. 8–10, 7pm, The Chocolate Factory 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 Live Arts), a U.S. Premiere, uses dance as a site for healing, grounded in epigenetic and psychosomatic research. 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 through 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, blending modern and hip-hop dance 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 reflect her Madagascan roots and diasporic experience. For younger audiences, Coquilles by Amala Dianor (Nov. 15, 11:30am & 3pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom) delivers a North American Premiere of a graceful, accessible dance narrative. Closing the dance lineup, [siccer] by Will Rawls (Nov. 20–22, 7:30pm, Performance Space New York) is a New York Premiere examining Black vernacular and media representation through movement.
Beyond dance, the festival opens with D’Est en musique (Sept. 9, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater), a New York Premiere featuring cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton and pianist Sarah Rothenberg performing a score inspired by Chantal Akerman’s 1993 travelogue. Les tutomouves by Clédat & Petitpierre (Sept. 13–Dec. 19, L’Alliance New York First Floor Gallery) is a North American Premiere of an interactive exhibition-workshop with colorful foam sculptures. Theater offerings include Marion Siéfert’s The Big Sleep (Le Grand Sommeil) (Sept. 17, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Skyroom), Rimini Protokoll’s All right. Good night. (Sept. 25–27, 7:30pm, NYU Skirball), Caroline Guiela Nguyen’s LACRIMA (Oct. 22, 24–25, 7:30pm; Oct. 26, 3pm, BAM Strong Harvey Theater), Carolina Bianchi’s The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella (Oct. 23–25, 7:30pm, Powerhouse Arts), and Tiago Rodrigues’ By Heart (Nov. 3–4, 7:30pm, L’Alliance New York Florence Gould Theater), a “miraculous” collective memorization experience.
For tickets and more information, visit https://lallianceny.org/crossing-the-line-festival/
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