17 > 21.06.19
CN D Pantin
Since the creation of their company Le principe d’incertitude in 2011, Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard have been working in close collaboration to build choreographic machines that attempt to thwart the habits of our attention. American choreographer and dancer trained at The Boston Ballet School, Liz Santoro also studied neuroscience at Harvard University before embarking on a career as a performer for numerous downtown dance artists in New York. This path then led her to a somatic research of the “performative body”, which remains the main driving force behind her artistic projects.
After studying engineering, Pierre Godard first worked in theater. He now devotes himself to the search for performative forms involving movement and text, which aim to offer a space of emancipation to the spectator. In parallel, he is engaged in research in Artificial Intelligence at CNRS.
Within the frame, without a reference : structures for seeing the unseen
Our personal biases are filters through which we process information. The world is increasingly penetrated by technologies trying to predict our behaviors, what we want, think, or do. Can we alter our filters as to short circuit these habits, rerouting the pathways of curiosity? Detect when the comfort of the stereotype highjacks our reactions? This workshop proposes a space of counteraction, in which we will devise structures through movement and language that allow us to unearth what is ever-present but never, or rarely, seen ; exploration of a new modality of somatic practice that Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard call the ‘triangle’ which taps into feedback loops between performers and spectators.
