CPR - Center for Performance Research and FIAF present

Christian Rizzo in the North American Premieres of

100% Polyester
Christian Rizzo and Caty Olive

Thursday, September 25 - Saturday, September 27 from 12noon - 9pm 

CPR - Center for Performance Research @ Greenbelt

Admission: Free

I-Fang Lin/Christian Rizzo
A New Dance Piece Co-produced by FIAF

Thursday, September 25 - Saturday, September 27 at 7:30pm 

CPR - Center for Performance Research @ Greenbelt

Admission: Free

Christian Rizzo works hand in hand with other artists and performers, notably lighting designer Caty Olive and musician Gérôme Nox. Out of this delicate compositional work, Rizzo extracts a type of poetry that is visual, carnal, essentially based on mystery. After having set-up his own rock group and a clothing label, Christian Rizzo turned to sculptural arts and later discovered dance. A surveyor of the contemporary choreography scene and a performer for a number of choreographers, Rizzo developed a multi-faceted artistic approach which, at the end of the 1990s, culminated in the creation of portable architecture, costume-spaces, and other projects.  Other performances include Autant Vouloir le Bleu du Ciel, and Ni Fleurs ni Ford Mustang with the Ballet at Lyons Opera. Christian Rizzo is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lille Opera.

These CPR prerformances are presented as part of

Crossing the Line: FIAF Fall Festival 2008  

Location: View CPR Map

Learn More: CPR- Center for Performance Research • FIAF • Greenbelt

  FUSED (French-US Exchange in Dance) is proud to support Christian Rizzo’s debut in New York City. FUSED is a program of the National Dance Project/New England Foundation for the Arts, the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York and FACE (French American Cultural Exchange) with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and Mr. George Desipio.

Christian Rizzo's debut in New York City has been prominently supported by Cultural Services of the French Embassy, Culturesfrance, FIAF, and Chez Bushwick. CPR would like to express its gratitude to the French funding organizations that have made this important New York City début possible.

I-Fang Lin/Christian Rizzo is made possible with support from the SACD and the Festival d'Avignon in the "Le Sujet a Vif" programme, l'apostrophe, Scene Nationale de Cergy-Pontoise et du Val d'Oise and the FIAF Fall Festival "Crossing the Line 2008," with the support of Opera de Lille and Taipei Artist Village. Special thanks to Hsin-Yin Shih, attachee culturelle of the French Institute of Taipei.

100% Polyester offers special thanks to Mannux, Pascale Paoli, Catarina Campino, Emmanuelle Huynh, Joao Fiadero /lab7 and the staff of the "Ménagerie de Verre."

L`Association Fragile/Christian Rizzo has received the support of DRAC Ile-De-France, Ministere de la Culture et de la Communication. Since 2007, and for 3 years, L’Association Fragile/Christian Rizzo has been Artist In Residence at the Lille Opera House.