INTERVENTIONS x Crossing The Line: delicate people

Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard started the project 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

Presented in partnership with '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.

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

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.

GETTING HERE

• You may purchase ferry tickets in advance at govisland.org/ferry or in person upon arrival at the Battery Maritime Building.
• Audience members must check in with Governors Island Arts staff either at Soissons Landing once they arrive, or at the performance site.

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