This new “choreographic machine” by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard broadens research into the link between movement and text by drawing on the musicality of syntax. In search of another relay between text and movement, For Claude Shannon uses grammatical dependencies between words in a statement from computer science pioneer Claude Elwood Shannon to recover a linguistic structure that, in turn, generates inexhaustible possibilities for choreographic sequences.
Twenty-four discreet movement “atoms” for arms and legs serve as a movement lexicon from which a fixed number of inputs is randomly chosen each time the piece is performed. For each performance, dancers must assemble and learn one particular choreographic outcome among the billions possible that cannot be rehearsed. They rely on the intimacy they have acquired with the fixed linguistic structure of the text and the intimacy they have acquired with one another.
Engaging the resources of both their working and long-term memory, uncovering to the audience the pronouncement of the unknown, concealing the predicaments of entropy, they relentlessly switch circuits.
Conception: Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard
Music: Greg Beller
Costumes: Reid Bartelme
PERFORMANCE SCHEDULE:
THRUSDAY thru SATURDAY @ 8 PM
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Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard: For Claude Shannon
First Preview: Feb 1, 2016
Opening Date: Feb 18, 2016
Closing Date: Feb 20, 2016
Running Time: 00:55
Playing @
The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13
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Wheelchair Info
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Seating
It has two performance spaces: a 125-seat black box theatre on the first floor, and a 74-seat black box theatre on the second floor. -
Elevator/Escalator
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Passenger Loading Zone
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Parking
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Curb Ramps
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Entrance
The entrance is street level. All other theates are accessible by elevator. -
Box Office
The box office is street level and the counter is wheel chair accesible. -
Restroom
They have wheelchair accessible restrooms. -
Water Fountain
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Telephone
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Assisted Listening System
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Visual Assistance
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Folding Armrests
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