FIAF Crossing The Line Festival
Sep 6–Oct 15, 2017
FIAF's celebrated international arts festival for New York City returns for an eleventh year presenting interdisciplinary works and performances by artists from around the world at FIAF and at leading cultural centers around the city. 
Ryoji Ikeda
supercodex [live set]
New York Premiere
Wed, Sep 6 & Thu, Sep 7
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leading electronic music composer Ryoji Ikeda mines information for rhythmic beats in a mesmerizing audiovisual concert.
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Faustin Linyekula
Banataba [new work]
World Premiere
Sat, Sep 9 &
Sun, Sep 10
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Congolese choreographer makes a provocative dance piece inspired by The Met’s “Kingdom of Kongo” collections and his country’s tumultuous history.
Artist Focus: Faustin LinyekulaPart of BRIDGING, a program of The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations
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Faustin Linyekula
/ Studios Kabako
In Search of Dinozord
US Premiere
Fri, Sep 22 & Sat, Sep 23
NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts
Fragments of Mozart’s Requiem score this poetic, political fairy tale about the fractured dreams of people in a war-torn nation.
Artist Focus: Faustin LinyekulaPart of BRIDGING, a program of The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations
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Faustin Linyekula
Festival of Dreams
World Premiere
Sat, Sep 23, Roberto Clemente Plaza
Sun, Sep 24, Weeksville Heritage Center
Faustin Linyekula and Moya Michael team up with hip-hop dancers from Its Showtime NYC! to explore movement, memories, and dreams in Brooklyn and the Bronx.
Artist Focus: Faustin LinyekulaPart of BRIDGING, a program of The Edmond de Rothschild Foundations
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Alain Willaume
VULNERABLE
Fri, Sep 15-Sat, Nov 18
FIAF Gallery
An immersive installation of the French photographer’s arresting photos reveals a ghostly undercurrent in our everyday lives.
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Nora Chipaumire
#PUNK
US Premiere
Thu, Sep 14 & Fri, Sep 15
FIAF Tinker Auditorium
Riffing on an iconic Patti Smith lyric, iconoclastic choreographer Nora Chipaumire stages a raw punk concert-performance.
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Annie Dorsen
The Great Outdoors
NYC Premiere
Thu, Sep 21–Sat, Sep 23
FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Climb onstage and into a planetarium for a sublime journey through the infinity of the internet, guided by an algorithm and a lone performer.
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Alessandro Sciarroni
UNTITLED_I will be there when you die
New York Premiere
Thu, Sep 28-Sat, Sep 30
La MaMa
Choreographer Alessandro Sciarroni takes the art of juggling out of the circus to create a minimalist spectacle about time passing.
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Bouchra Ouizguen
Corbeaux (Crows)
New York Premiere
Sat, Sep 30 &
Sun, Oct 1
Brooklyn Museum
A hypnotic, site-specific living sculpture of forty women dressed in black and white interrupts and transforms The Brooklyn Museum’s Beaux-Arts Court.
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Sophie Calle
Midnight Moment:
Voir la mer
New York Premiere
Sun, Oct 1-Tue, Oct 31
Times Square
Magnified on Times Square’s electronic billboards, intimate video portraits reveal individuals’ emotional responses to seeing the ocean for the first time.
Meet the Artist
Sat, Oct 28
View Midnight Moment from Duffy Square in Times Square with artist Sophie Calle.
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Dickie Beau
Blackouts
US Premiere
Thu, Oct 5-Sun, Oct 8
Abrons Arts Center
Drag-fabulist Dickie Beau conjures the wayward spirits of Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland.
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Adelheid Roosen
& Nazmiye Oral
No Longer Without You