INTERVENTIONS x Crossing The Line: delicate people

Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouf­fard start­ed the project del­i­cate peo­ple in 2021 as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between their respec­tive dis­ci­plines: dance and sculp­ture. ​“Del­i­cate” describes both Bouffard’s illus­trat­ed fig­ures and Childs’s cre­ative process — the fine tun­ing nec­es­sary to an evolv­ing chore­o­graph­ic sto­ry. Both artists cul­ti­vate intu­ition and inde­ter­mi­na­cy, fos­ter­ing the sus­pen­sion of judg­ment through a series of del­i­cate­ly dis­turb­ing vignettes.

“The suc­cess of Ruth Childs and Cecile Bouffard’s work speaks to their capac­i­ty to devel­op before and through our eyes a new imag­i­na­tion, full of abstract fig­ures and ges­tures: the frag­ile beau­ty of a con­ver­sa­tion between a body and sculp­tures.” — Clara Col­son, Zone Cri­tique

Per­for­mance Sched­ule: Octo­ber 4 at 12:45pm & 2:45pm

Con­cept: Cécile Bouf­fard & Ruth Childs
Per­for­mance: Ruth Childs
Sculp­tures: Cécile Bouf­fard
Tech­ni­cal Direc­tion: Rodolphe Mar­tin
Pro­duc­tion, admin­is­tra­tion, dis­tri­b­u­tion: Lise Leclerc et Cecília Lubra­no
Many thanks to Léopol­dine Turbat

Pre­sent­ed in part­ner­ship with L’Alliance New York​’s Cross­ing The Line Fes­ti­val as part of INTER­VEN­TIONS, a site-respon­sive, mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary free annu­al per­for­mance series from Gov­er­nors Island Arts that presents local, nation­al, and inter­na­tion­al artists and invites audi­ences to expe­ri­ence work made and adapt­ed for the out­doors. Inter­ven­tions is curat­ed by Juan Pablo Siles, Asso­ciate Cura­tor and Pro­duc­er at the Trust for Gov­er­nors Island.

L’Alliance New York is an inde­pen­dent, not-for-prof­it orga­ni­za­tion com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing its audi­ence and stu­dents with engag­ing French lan­guage class­es and auda­cious mul­ti-dis­ci­pli­nary pro­gram­ming that cel­e­brates the diver­si­ty of fran­coph­o­ne cul­tures and cre­ativ­i­ty around the world. A wel­com­ing and inclu­sive com­mu­ni­ty for all ages and all back­grounds, L’Alliance New York is a place where peo­ple can meet, learn, and explore the rich­ness of our her­itages and share dis­cov­er­ies. L’Alliance New York strives to ampli­fy voic­es and build bridges from the entire fran­coph­o­ne world to New York and beyond.

Cross­ing The Line is a city­wide fes­ti­val that engages inter­na­tion­al artists and New York City audi­ences in artis­tic dis­cov­ery and crit­i­cal dia­logue to re-imag­ine the world around us. Cross­ing The Line is pro­duced by L’Alliance New York in part­ner­ship with lead­ing cul­tur­al institutions.