In Search for Sunrise: France
These five-minute events will celebrate a significant French-born artist such as a musician, philosopher, painter, dancer, composer, writer, poet, etc. Each day, a different person will be filmed at the beach during sunrise while contemplating this French figure of their choice. The five-minute film will be broadcast on YouTube daily and will be documented as part of FLA-FRA’s In Search for Sunrise: France project.

Composer Gustavo Matamoros will perform Plage de Miami (for Claudia Ariano) live. The piece consists of the sound of writing the words MIAMI BEACH both in English and French using French-style manuscript. Will be viewed on a large screen.

– a 12-hour reading from Apollinaire, the father of surrealism

In La Vertu Dans Le Vice, Carol Todaro will stand in the gallery of the ArtCenter/South Florida for five minutes and give away copies of her artist book entitled La Vertu Dans Le Vice, a piece both surreal and slightly naughty in the spirit of Apollinaire.

In Slow French, the artist will hand out cards with a QR Code that links to an audio site. The artist took the words "French" and "Brittany" and, while pasting them in sequence, sped them up and slowed them down. These distortions illustrate how we try to attribute meaning to spoken utterances. When the word "French" is sufficiently accelerated to become incomprehensible, we may "read" new words or phrases into the flow of sound. By contrast, the slowed-down versions reveal an array of component sounds that are "meaningless" but intriguing, much like a magnified newspaper cartoon that becomes an array of dot patterns, revealing a different kind of beauty.

For Send Our Love to France, Pioneer Winter and Jared Sharon will lie on the shoreline and kiss passionately, while their bodies roll together in the surf. Their love will be carried by the North Atlantic Ocean into the Bay of Biscay and absorbed by bodies on the Western banks of France.
France has been traditionally liberal with LGBTQ rights. With same-sex sexual activity largely legal since 1791 in France, Send Our Love to France is in response to that sort of progressiveness. While France has many credits as a country of equality, Pioneer and Jared are concerned about recent incidents of racism and hate speech. Send Our Love to France is an act of sending love to all in France.

In echo, eko, eco (extended improvisations in time), two local brass band students from Miami Central High School – trumpeters Duane Ingram and Michael Lightbourne – will perform Charles Mingus's Haitian Fight Song, 1957. One will be at Freedom Tower in downtown Miami and the other will be in an undisclosed historical Miami landmark location. The focus is on the concept of self-determination, revolution and freedom as a thread that binds different groups with common struggles. South American political leaders like Simon Bolivar, once a political exile in Haiti (1815-1820), liberated Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Panama and Bolivia from Spanish rule with full military support from Haiti. Charles Mingus, like many early Jazz musicians, sought deeper connections, roots with Haitian, Cuban, Mexican and Puerto Rican folkloric music that influenced and transcended throughout contemporary jazz and all other forms of American music. The Tigertail honorarium will be donated to the student and Miami Central Senior High School band directed by John McMinn.

In Napoleon's Hidden Hand, William Keddell will stand with his hand in his shirt in the same style and manner as the great general, consul and emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The performance will be recorded as a stereo video. Throughout the duration, the artist will speak of the significance of this gesture – a secret Masonic sign, a fashionable painterly convention, mirrors – which hand?

Shoot the Piano Player is presented within "Early Truffault: The Nouvelle Vague Classics."
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Also at the Miami Beach Cinematheque, a photo exhibit, "Scotch Crossing," by French photographer Benoit Izard.

Filmmaker/film historian Sherer will present his Rendevous Deux immediately preceding the François Truffaut screenings at Miami Beach Cinematheque. Sherer’s piece is a unique two-projector re-creation of Claude Lelouch's seminal 1976 short film Rendevous, a continuous take in which a camera is mounted on the front of a Ferrari racing from one side of Paris to the other in the middle of the night.

Stunning French chanteuse Floanne comes straight from New York's cabaret scene. Her passionate performance pulled us in like a magnet when we first saw her at Joe's Pub. Enjoy a cabaret experience! Beginning at 8 pm on April 11, dine on crêpes and experience an hour of Culture Clicks. Then at 9 pm, Floanne takes the stage.

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La Boheme Redux: We all know what happened when a Frenchman visited Spain and crossed paths with its music and its women, but what happens when the tables are turned? What happens when a Spanish composer, a traditional flamenco singer and a dancer, still trying to figure out who Carmen is, come together to reinterpret a staple of the French chanson, Charles Aznavour's beloved La Boheme? Rodriguez, Marquez and the voice of Manuel Gago will take liberties and borrow from a slew of characters to give shape to the eternal Spanish danseuse.

These local favorites perform in the On Stage Black Box lobby prior to the performance. Adora will lip sync to La Vie en Rose, while performance artist David Rohn, dressed as the great mime Artist Marcel Marceau, will mime his way through Piaf's song interacting with Ms. Piaf and with the audience.

Stolen Kisses is presented within "Early Truffault: The Nouvelle Vague Classics."
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"Scotch Crossing," a photo exhibit by French photographer Benoit Izard continues at Miami Beach Cinematheque.

Cécile McLorin Salvant has skyrocketed to stardom since we first saw her at the Spoleto Festival USA in 2012. Possessing a deep, velvety voice, rhythmic poise, and a sublime feel for the blues, she combines conservatory-honed technique with a beguiling gift for lyrical interpretation. Cécile stole the show at the Arsht Center in December when she appeared with Winton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. Tickets for her April 12 concert have been selling fast since that concert and we expect an early sell-out.

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Love-Lock Cupid: Love-locks have adorned the bridges of some of the world's most romantic cities, most famously Paris. Miami will reference this expression of hope and humanity, connecting people around the world. Bring your love key, which represents a past, present or imagined sweetheart to symbolize the one thing that unites us all.

Paris When It Sizzles is a film shot at a pocket park on Normandy Isle, Miami Beach, where most of the streets were named after French cities and architectural landmarks by the developers. In this brief performance, the artist will do her best impression of Audrey Hepburn to tell the story of why she herself has never been to Paris. She will recount the ways in which Paris and other bits of French culture have shaped her destiny without her ever having stepped foot in the great French city, including her first French kiss, her flunking out of high school French, and her obsession with the Alice B. Toklas Cookbook, written while the author and G. Stein were living in France.

400 Blows is presented within "Early Truffault: The Nouvelle Vague Classics" in partnership with "Films on the Beach," presented by the French Embassy Cultural Services, the City of Miami Beach Arts in the Parks, the Miami Beach Cinematheque and Tigertail.
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Enjoy an evening of music, art, food, culture and fun at this beautiful facility in the heart of Little Haiti. Big Night takes place every third Friday. Plenty of easy, safe parking; plenty of food and music. Free.

Dancer Marissa Alma Nick will perform 2 Les Girls and 1 French Bench with singer Jahzel Dotel in a homage to the women of France, inspired by iconic images of French women between 1920 and 2014.

Untitled (Montauciel) by Adler Guerrier is a gestural homage to the experiments of the Mongolfier brothers. In a live demonstration at Versailles. On September 19, 1783, before King Louis XVI of France and Queen Marie Antoinette, the Montgolfier brothers placed a sheep named Montauciel (ascends to heaven), a rooster and a duck in a basket as passengers in hot air balloon flight that lasted 8 minutes. When the balloon safely landed, it proved the air was breathable at the relative altitude reached in flight.

Jules and Jim is presented within "Early Truffault: The Nouvelle Vague Classics" in partnership with "Films on the Beach," presented by the French Embassy Cultural Services, the City of Miami Beach Arts in the Parks, the Miami Beach Cinematheque and Tigertail.
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Noted French dancer and choreographer Myriam Gourfink uses the respiratory techniques of yoga as her source that leads to movement. This solo is performed on a raised catwalk. As the body propels forward with the stillness of time itself, it gathers incredible momentum, and gestures become gravity-defying feats. Electronics and percussion music by Polish-French composer Kasper T. Teoplitz surround and intensify the movement.

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Choreographer Heather Maloney will perform a five-minute work to the sound of Eric Satie's Gymnopédies la 1ére. lent et douloureux in her head while dancing in the lobby of the On Stage Black Box.

Arrive at 8:00 and enjoy French crêpes, wine and this, the final 2014 FLA-FRA Culture Click!

Cédric Andrieux is a solo for renowned contemporary dancer Cédric Andrieux. In this illuminating work, leading French choreographer Jérôme Bel asks veteran dancer Cédric Andrieux to reflect on his life as a dancer and confront the question of what drives him as an artist. Integrating excerpts, Bel provides an intimate look at Andrieux’s career by using snapshots of the renowned contemporary dancer’s life in dance, his training in France, his years with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, all narrated and danced by Andrieux.

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