Crossing the Line 2022

The French Institute Alliance Française’s 15th annual fall festival, curated this year by Mathilde Augé and Florent Masse, brings an intriguing selection of theater, dance, talks and art to the institution's home base and to sites across New York. The festival celebrates diverse artistic viewpoints from around the French-speaking world. Theater offerings include director Marion Siéfert's _jeanne_dark_ (Sept 14, 15), Felwine Sarr and Étienne Minoungou's Traces – Speech to African Nations (Sept 21), the musical-theater work Freedom, I’ll have lived your dream until the very last day (Sept 24) and philosopher Bruno Latour and director Frédérique Aït-Touati's The Terrestrial Trilogy (Oct 27, 28).