FIAF presents SNOW WHITE the FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), are thrilled to present the US premiere of theciné-performance Snow White or the Fall of the Berlin Wall from French theater group La Cordonnerie on Saturday, March 18 and Sunday, March 19 at 2pm at FIAF's Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th Street (between Madison & Park Avenue).

Get a glimpse inside a magic mirror where fairy tales and history collide. This delightfully quirky re-imagining of Snow White by some of France's most inventive artists is not to be missed!

La Cordonnerie brings their signature mix of film, music, and theater to New York for the first time. Sound effects, music, and narration are performed live in front of an original film, bringing the magic of theater-making center stage.

Ciné-performance in French with English supertitles. Presented in conjunction with the Tilt Kids Festival. With the support of the SPEDIDAM. La Cordonnerie receives funding from the Region of Auvergne - Rhône Alpes and the Ministry of Culture and Communications / DRAC Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes.

About La Cordonnerie

Founded in 1997 in Lyon, La Cordonnerie has developed a multidisciplinary style of creation-fusing theater, film and music-that they call ciné-performance. The company's method consists of re-writing and adapting well-known stories, from literary classics like Mary Shelley'sFrankenstein to Shakespeare's Hamlet, to fairy tales like Ali Baba and Hansel and Gretel, reading themselves into this profound and infinitely rich material, and shaping the tales into modern and offbeat versions suitable for all audiences over the age of six or eight. The adaptation phase is followed by the making of a silent film, which is shown on stage, accompanied by musicians, actors, and sound engineers who re-create live the sound texture of the film, using a multitude of instruments and incongruous objects. Since 2005, La Cordonnerie has produced a repertory of seven shows presented regionally, nationally, and internationally-totaling over a thousand performances.

About Tilt Kids Festival

Tilt Kids Festival invites kids and families to discover, play, imagine, think, and create, with performances and events that challenge the boundaries of art forms. From theater to dance parties, music concerts, innovative workshops, conversations, and visual art installations, Tilt is designed to stimulate and inspire the audiences of today and tomorrow.

Tilt Kids Festival is co-curated by Rima Abdul-Malak, Cultural Attachée of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Lili Chopra, Executive Vice President and Artistic Director of the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF); and Violaine Huisman, Director of Humanities at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music. www.tiltkidsfestival.org

The Cultural Services of the French Embassy promotes the best of French arts, literature, cinema, digital innovation, language, and higher education across the US. Based in New York City, Washington D.C., and eight other cities across the country, the Cultural Services brings artists, authors, intellectuals and innovators to cities nationwide. It also builds partnerships between French and American artists, institutions and universities on both sides of the Atlantic. In New York, through its bookshop Albertine, it fosters French-American exchange around literature and the arts. www.frenchculture.org

The French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF) is New York's premiere French cultural and language center. FIAF's mission is to create and offer New Yorkers innovative and unique programs in education and the arts that explore the evolving diversity and richness of French cultures. FIAF seeks to generate new ideas and promote cross cultural dialogue through partnerships and new platforms of expression. www.fiaf.org

Tilt Kids Festival 2017 is made possible thanks to the generous support of the Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium, Air France and Delta Air Lines, FACE Foundation, Florence Gould Foundation, the French Ministry of Culture and Communication, Howard Gilman Foundation, Institut français-Paris, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie, La Roche Posay, and SACD (Société des auteurs et compositeurs dramatiques).