Since 2011, Franco-American choreographers Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been collaborating closely to create generative and algorithmic choreographic performances that aim to challenge the natural patterns of our attention.
For Liz Santoro, classical training at the Boston Ballet, a degree in neuroscience at Harvard, and a career as a performer on the New York experimental dance scene, have forged an inexhaustible curiosity for what the human body can do.
For Pierre Godard, a deliberate path from science to stage directing and choreography, via a doctorate in artificial intelligence, nourishes his work on 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 writing systems, centered on movement and text, which offer spectators playful, hypnotic experiences.
Their work has been presented in France, Europe, North America and Asia.
They have created various group pieces, We Do Our Best (2012), Relative Collider (2014), For Claude Shannon (2016), Maps (2017), Noisy Channels (2018 and 2019), Stereo (2019), Scales (2019), Tempéraments (2019), Mutual Information (2021), The Game of Life (2022) as well as site-specific pieces such as Watch It (2012), Quarte (2014), FCS Redux (2017), Mass over Volume (2017), Learning (2018 and 2019), Contrepoints (2023).
Watch It received a Bessie Award in 2013 in the "Outstanding Production for a work at the forefront of contemporary dance" category. Their work Contrepoints was a recipient of the "Mondes nouveaux" prize launched by the French Ministry of Culture.