Liz Santoro + Pierre Godard
This Is Unreal

October 15-17, 2026

$15-275

performance still from This Is Unreal by Liz Santoro + Pierre Godard. In the background, a green screen projection with the numbers 179 in large blue font at the center, and a collection of dance-related objects situated on a green marley floor. Liz stands in the foreground, dressed in loose-fitting dance clothes, her gaze lifted upwards and her arms wide.
performance still from This Is Unreal by Liz Santoro + Pierre Godard. In the background, a green screen projection with the numbers 179 in large blue font at the center, and a collection of dance-related objects situated on a green marley floor. Liz stands in the foreground, dressed in loose-fitting dance clothes, her gaze lifted upwards and her arms wide.

Performances will take place at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, Long Island City.

Co-presented with L’Alliance New York / Crossing The Line Festival.

Onstage, Liz Santoro recounts her life: her childhood, ballet school, life in New York, her move to Paris, motherhood, and the works she has created with Pierre Godard. But here, truth and fiction cannot be disentangled: some memories are real, others are generated by artificial intelligence; some movements originate from her body, others are fabricated by an algorithm trained on her dancing.

This Is Unreal constructs a hybrid world in which the authentic and the synthetic continuously contaminate one another. An autobiographical pact that goes awry, becoming an autofiction for the age of deepfakes, a dizzying, disorienting game that asks: where does the body end and the machine begin?

Concept, Direction, Text and Choreography: Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard. Performer: Liz Santoro. Music: Pierre-Yves Macé (with excerpts from Chopin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky…). Lighting and Space Design: Mélanie Rattier. Costumes: Rezvan Farsijani. Generative AI: Léo Chédin. Interns: Anaïs Vallières, Beatrice Pozzi.