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?