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MODINA 2025 Residency at the CNDB – “This is Unreal” with Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard

MODINA 2025 Residency at the CNDB – “This is Unreal” with Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard

January 27 – March 7

“This Is Unreal” explores the intersection of dance, theater, and contemporary technologies like artificial intelligence, clones, and deepfakes. Through text and movement, Liz Santoro inhabits a world where the lines between human and machine, real and virtual, blur. The performance delves into the unsettling implications of AI on truth, creativity, and freedom, using both human-generated and AI-generated materials to create an emotional experience that questions our current relationship with reality. The project also introduces a novel “fourth wall” (the imaginary barrier theatrically imposed between performers from the audience) creating a hybrid space that integrates audience interaction through real-time feedback and digital extensions, offering a glimpse into the evolving future of human and machine collaboration in artistic creation.

Biographies

Pierre Godard is a French artist and performance maker with a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Paris-Saclay University. With a background in applied mathematics and linguistic engineering, his research has focused on unsupervised word discovery and computational language documentation, particularly in low-resource languages. Beyond his academic pursuits, Godard is a prominent figure in the performing arts creating works with choreographer Liz Santoro that explore the intersection of dance, technology, and AI, pushing the boundaries of contemporary performance art. Their pieces have been showcased internationally, and Godard’s innovative approach continues to influence both the fields of AI and the arts.

Liz Santoro is an American choreographer and dancer with a background in neuroscience from Harvard University and professional training from the Boston Ballet School. Over her career, she has become known for her innovative works that blend movement with generative composition and technology. In collaboration with Pierre Godard, Santoro has created numerous acclaimed pieces that explore the intersection of dance and cognitive processes, presented extensively in Europe, North America and Asia. In addition to her choreographic works, Santoro’s artistic practice encompasses extensive pedagogical engagement through her curation, teaching, outreach, and mentoring work.

Mélanie Rattier first worked alongside lighting artist Georges Berne on large-scale architectural lighting projects (Philharmonie de Paris, Musée du Quai Branly, Centre Pompidou-Metz…). After graduating from the École d’architecture de la ville et des territoires (Marne-la-Vallée), she joined major Parisian architectural firms such as Atelier Jean Nouvel. For the past ten years, she has been developing her artistic work on the design of scenic space within the company Le principe d’incertitude.

Léo Chédin (you can use the last one you had)

[I include our composer here Pierre-Yves here but he will not be physically joining us in Bucharest of course so perhaps it’s not needed.
Pierre-Yves Macé (composer) combines electroacoustic music with instrumental writing. He has released CDs on the Tzadik, Sub Rosa and Brocoli labels, and regularly collaborates with stage directors and choreographers. His music was the subject of a Portrait for the 2023 edition of the Festival d’Automne à Paris. He is a resident at the Académie de France in Rome (Villa Médicis) in 2024-2025.]

More info about MODINA HERE.

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