Since 2011, the Franco-American choreographers Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been collaborating to create generative and algorithmic choreographic works that seek to subvert the habits of our attention. For Liz Santoro, a classical training at the Boston Ballet, a degree in neuroscience from Harvard, and a career as a performer in experimental dance have forged an inexhaustible curiosity for what the human body can do. For Pierre Godard, a path from science to stage directing and choreography, via a Ph.D. in natural language processing (Université Paris-Saclay), that fuels his thinking about the future of dance and its relationship to society as a whole.

The singularity of their respective backgrounds has led them to develop original choreographic systems centered on movement and text, offering the audience playful and hypnotic experiences. Their works increasingly engage tools from digital technologies (motion capture, generative artificial intelligence, video projection, and real-time processing), as seen in their most recent piece, This Is Unreal (2025), a solo work combining choreographed movement and AI-generated movement, developed within the framework of the Creative Europe MODINA program.

They have created some twenty group and site-specific pieces, including We Do Our Best (2012), Relative Collider (2014), For Claude Shannon (2016), Noisy Channels (2018), Stereo (2019), The Game of Life (2022), Contrepoints (2023), and Mémoire de pierres (2025), presented in France (Centre Pompidou, Théâtre de la Bastille, Atelier de Paris, CNDC Angers, Scène Nationale de Beauvais, Théâtre Garonne, MAC VAL...), in Europe (HAU Berlin, Tanzhaus Düsseldorf, RomaEuropa, STUK, Les Brigittines Brussels...), in North America (The Kitchen, Danspace Project in New York, Usine C in Montreal...) and in Asia (National Gallery of Singapore, Power Station of Art Shanghai). Watch It received a Bessie Award in 2013 in the category “Outstanding Production for a work at the forefront of contemporary dance,” and Contrepoints was a recipient of the “Mondes nouveaux” program by the Ministry of Culture.

Associated artists at the Enghien-les-Bains Arts Center from 2026 to 2029, with the Atelier de Paris / CDCN from 2016 to 2019 as part of the Ministry of Culture’s program, in residence in the Essonne department from 2022 to 2024, their work is supported by the DRAC Île-de-France and the Île-de-France Region. Education is also at the heart of their work: Liz Santoro serves as pedagogical advisor programming and consulting for the masterclasses at the Atelier de Paris since 2022, and she and Pierre regularly teach at higher education institutions (Cndc Angers, ENS Paris-Saclay, École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville) and at the Centre National de la Danse (CND). Their commitment to arts and cultural education is carried out through numerous initiatives (Culture & Santé, Constellation, Art Pour Grandir, Danse à l’École), workshops in schools, hospitals, and medical-social settings, and participatory projects with local residents.