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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
Liz Santoro & Pierre Godard: For Claude Shannon

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Playing @
The Kitchen
512 W 19th St, New York, NY 10011
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
DanceDance
Show Notes: No Intermission
Age Guidance: 13

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Accessibility

  • Wheelchair Info

    They willo remove seats from the front of the theatre.
  • 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

    yes
  • Passenger Loading Zone

  • Parking

  • Curb Ramps

    yes
  • 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

    none
  • Telephone

    none
  • Assisted Listening System

    none
  • Visual Assistance

    none
  • Folding Armrests

    none

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