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The Village Voice | February 18, 2016
Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard: For Claude Shannon, Elizabeth Zimmer
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Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard: For Claude Shannon
Movement "atoms" collide with human anatomy and dancers' brains in For Claude Shannon, a unique undertaking by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard. Shannon, born a hundred years ago and considered the father of information theory, explored mathematics and electrical engineering at MIT; his master's thesis inspired Santoro, a ballet dancer who studied neuroscience at Harvard, and Godard, a former "quant" who abandoned math to work in theater. The Bessie Award–winning pair have shown their work internationally for the past five years. Different every night, their new quartet is reassembled at each performance from billions of possible "grammatical dependencies"; the dancers convert algorithms into a compelling movement lexicon. Greg Beller provides music, Reid Bartelme costumes, and curator Matthew Lyons the organizational impetus, situating Shannon as part of the ongoing exhibition "From Minimalism Into Algorithm."
