Schedule:

Exhibition: Julian Charriere And Beneath It All Flows Liquid Fire at FIAF Gallery
6:00 p.m - 8:00 p.m: Opening Reception:
On View September 8 - October 13, 2023

French-Swiss artist Julian Charrière’s intriguing and often provocative work invites critical reflections on perceiving and engaging with the natural world. This powerful video installation encapsulates the artist’s thoughts on the tensions between modern societies and ideas of nature. It juxtaposes a fountain of water, a source of life, with the force of fire an element which has both destroyed and advanced civilizations to explore the complex coexistence of opposing elements. The installation posits that beneath politics and philosophy lies the original state of our planet, embodied by magma, the molten “liquid fire” churning at the earth’s core.

Exhibition: Camille de Galbert Growing Matter at The Invisible Dog Art Center
6:00 p.m - 9:00 p.m: Opening Reception
On View September 9 - October 14, 2023

Coral, humus, underbrush, seagrass, lichen: lifeforms all dependent on symbiotic relationships. Their life ability to regenerate is their intrinsic power. Their removal hinders the possibility of new life, making it nearly impossible to artificially create the conditions of their regeneration. Camille de Galbert creates these same fundamental ecosystems through patient, repetitive and cumulative movements. On the other end of this life cycle, we find sediments - the remnants of a life cycle - disintegrating, like these carbon black specimens. In scaling up and becoming curious about the infinitely small within these symbiotic ecosystems -exploring hidden zones, villus, crevices - Camille de Galbert reveals some of the most mysterious forms of matter.

Friday, September 8, 2023

8:00 p.m: Tatiana Desardouin and Passion Fruit Dance Company Trapped at FIAF Florence Gould Hall
NY-based choreographer Tatiana Desardouin and Passion Fruit Dance Company bring bold street and club dance styles to the stage. The performance features moving testimony from four women with different backgrounds and a range of life stories, revealing both their pain and paths to joy. While the piece explores difficult social issues faced by women, it conveys a broad message of hope, celebration and an invitation to unfold and release mental blocks.

Choreographed, produced, and directed by Tatiana Desardouin
Performed by Lauriane Ogay, Nubian Néné, Lobel, and Mai Le Ho
Approx. 60min

FIAF Members: $30
Non-Members: $40
Students with ID: $25

Thursday, September 14, 2023

10:00 p.m - 4:00 a.m: Performance: Tatiana Desardouin and Nubian Nene Les 5 Sens at The Standard, High Line
At the intersection of street and club cultures, NY-based choreographer Tatiana Desardouin and artist Nubian Néné come together to present Les 5 Sens X The Intermission.

Designed by Desardouin and first launched in Geneva, Les 5 Sens features live music, dance, food, and drinks in an immersive performance designed to engage all five senses. The multisensory experience within a cultural party aims to build bridges between art forms and communities through the prism of hip-hop. For the September 2023 edition, Desardouin collaborated with Néné to spotlight The Intermission’s unique, performative Waacking event within the context of Les 5 sens. The Intermission, organized and produced by Néné, unifies generations by curating emerging and experienced waackers, helping to further develop choreographic and performance skills.

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

7:30 p.m: Dance: Smail Kanouté Never Twenty One at FIAF Florence Gould Hall
Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement’s #Never21 hashtag, French-Malian choreographer and dancer Smaïl Kanouté’s deeply resonant piece—making its U.S. premiere—pays tribute to young people of color who have lost their lives to gun violence all over the world before reaching the age of 21. The performance, separated into three segments, focuses on the senseless deaths of young Black youth in New York, Johannesburg, and Rio de Janeiro.

Excerpts of powerful testimonies from victims’ family members are transcribed on the dancers’ bodies, combining dance and visual art. The dancers’ intense movement draws on contemporary and intuitive dance, krump, popping, and baile funk in recounting the stories of many broken lives.

Choreographed by Smaïl Kanouté
Performed by Smaïl Kanouté, Aston Bonaparte, and Salomon Mpondo-Dicka

FIAF Members: $30
Non-Members: $40
Students with ID: $25

Dance: Olivier Tarpaga Once the dust settles, flowers bloom at The Joyce Theater

Tuesday, October 3, 2023 at 7:30pm
Wednesday, October 4, 2023 at 7:30pm
Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 8pm
Friday, October 6, 2023 at 8pm
Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 2pm and 8pm
Sunday, October 8, 2023 at 2pm

Choreographer/dancer/musician Olivier Tarpaga’s powerful work acknowledges the strength of refugees from Africa’s occupied Burkina Faso and its Sahel region - Tarpaga’s ancestral homeland - who have escaped from violent jihadists and fled to distant camps. The piece also conveys the ongoing suffering and lack of autonomy faced by women amid religious extremism. Featuring seven dancers and five musicians with music composed by Tarpaga, it is ultimately a work of not only survival but of hope and love.

Dancers: Ousséni Dabare, Christie Dossou, Aicha Kabore, Jean-Robert Koudogbo-Kiki, Michael Nana, Sofia Nmili, Sylvie Sanou
Musicians: Seydou Koita, Issouf Dembele, Wassa Kouyate, Yann Moni, Boubacar Djiga
Rehearsal Director: Aziz Zoundi
Approx. 70min

Friday, October 6 and Saturday, October 7, 2023

7:30 p.m: Theater Simon Senn and Tammara Leites dSimon at FIAF Tinker Auditorium
Swiss artist Simon Senn uses theater to investigate today’s most exciting and controversial technological development: artificial intelligence (AI). Making its NY premiere, the production features Senn, Tammara Leites, and dSimon - an AI entity- and relates the intriguing story of dSimon’s creation. When Leites trains an AI to become a writer, she integrates it with Senn’s personality, personal data, and messaging. Events take an unsettling turn as dSimon begins to behave strangely, leaving Senn and Leites with a now autonomous, disturbing, and yet familiar monster.

Conception and direction by Tammara Leites, Simon Senn, dSimon
dSimon voiced by Arnaud Mathey
Approx. 1h

Admission:
FIAF Members: $25
Non-Members: $30
Students with ID: $20

Thursday, October 12 and Friday, October 13, 2023

7:30 p.m: Theater Isabelle Adjani Marilyn’s Vertigo at FIAF Florence Gould Hall

Directed by Olivier Steiner and Emmanuel Lagarrigue
Written by Olivier Steiner and Isabelle Adjani

This extraordinary homage to Marilyn Monroe is based on the actress’s final interview, two days before her death. In a riveting solo stage performance, the renowned French actress Isabelle Adjani engages in a surreal dialogue with Monroe, oscillating in tone between an intimate conversation with a friend and a formal press interview with moments of both voice-over and direct audience address. In her richly nuanced monologue, featuring an exact replica of the black Dior dress Monroe wore at her final photo session, Adjani interprets an icon while exploring the broader complexities of stardom, identity, and legacy.
Approx. 1hr 20min, No Intermission

Admission:
FIAF Members: $75+
Non-Members: $95+

Date: September 8 - October 13, 2023

Location: Various Venues in New York, NY 10022

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