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Welcome to the TOWARDS:2025 lecture “Relationships between the production and the reception of the visual” by choreographer Xavier Le Roy on 1 October, 19.00 at Vitlycke-CPA.
Free entrance.
This lecture is held by choreographer Xavier Le Roy and organized within TOWARDS:2025 workshop cycle. Discover the artistic world of Xavier Le Roy and join other events with the choreographer:
3 October, 19.00 – Monsters of Circumstances – Xavier Le Roy (performance)
4 October, 17.00 – Informal showing of workshop “Embodiments and exhibitions” by Xavier Le Roy & Scarlet Yu
Tickets to these performances available:
Read more about TOWARDS:2025 workshop cycle here: https://vitlycke.org/schedule_events/390
Relationships between the production and the reception of the visual
Using three to four solo choreographies created by Xavier Le Roy between 1994 and 2007, the lecture offers an exploration of the relationships between the production and the reception of the visual. Through a speculative analysis of these relationships, it examines the hypothesis that what a spectator perceives during a performance in a theater is the articulation between the processes of production and reproduction of movements, the modes of performing, and the ways in which the performance is presented. In other words, when watching a choreography, the spectator is not only witnessing a form but also perceiving the processes at play during the production of the movements in the rehearsals, as well as their execution in performance.
Xavier Le Roy Roy (FR/DE)
Xavier Le Roy holds a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has been working as an artist since 1991. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany. He has been artist-in-residence at Podewil in Berlin (1996-2003), associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (2007-2008), artist-in-residence at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA) (2010), and at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris (2012-2015).
Xavier Le Roy’s experimental works are motivated by the need for transformation and questions about the notion of movement and what it produces. They are guided by a desire to transform our understanding of dichotomies such as Human/Non-Human, Subject/Object, Passive/Active, Normal/Abnormal, etc., and to bring together beings or understandings of the world that are usually separated by various norms and inheritances.
Choreographer’s latest works are often developed for exhibitions, museums, or other public spaces that explore the particularity of the times and spaces of these places. The intention is to create relationships between spectators and live artworks that allow a multitude of ways of being together to coexist.
More information about Xavier Le Roy: https://www.xavierleroy.com/