L’Alliance New York Announces The North American Premiere of This Is Unreal

L’Alliance New York announces the North American premiere of This Is Unreal by Liz Santoro and Pierre Godard from October 15-17, 2026 at 7PM at The Chocolate Factory Theater, 38-33 24th Street, New York, NY, 11101. Tickets start at $17.87. For more information and to reserve tickets, visit https://lallianceny.org/event/this-is-unreal/.

Onstage, choreographer 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?