The act of learning consists of extracting invariant features from the noisy variability of reality.
With Learning, Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard make visible a moment usually hidden from the audience: the moment when dancers learn a new choreographic phrase.
The choreographic phrase is generated from the grammatical structure of a sentence from an article by Claude Shannon, a pioneer of information theory. With each new activation, a unique sequence is produced from among the billions of possibilities contained within the score.
Here, the visitor witnesses the very work of the body as it learns: a time of intense concentration and great performative vulnerability, in which the body searches, memorizes, adjusts, and begins again. In the museum space, Learning gives form to this slow temporality of learning and evokes the presence of human gesture behind the works on display. The physical labor of the creative process placed in dialogue with the completed artworks.
Conception · Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard
Performers for Learning, Paris · Lucas Bassereau, Jacquelyn Elder, Cynthia Koppe, Liz Santoro
Performers for Learning, Singapore · Le principe d'incertitude : Matthieu Barbin, Lucas Bassereau, Cynthia Koppe, Liz Santoro · T.H.E Dance Company : Elaine Chai, Eunice Wee, Goh Shou Yi, Kimmie Marie Cumming, Maybelle Lek, Natasha Neo, Zeng Yu, Zunnur Zhafirah, Klievert Jon Mendoza, Nah Jieying, Ng Zu You
Performers for Learning, Metz · Esteban Appessèche, Lucas Bassereau, Pierrick Claudel, Blanche Giraudon, Liz Santoro, Anaïs Vallières
Music for Singapore, Metz · Greg Beller
Partners · Centre Pompidou, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Théâtre de Vanves, National Gallery Singapore, Centre Pompidou Metz