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Welcome to Monsters of Circumstances by Xavier Le Roy on Friday, 3 October, 19.00, a performance that asks: are monsters built to frighten, or do they emerge from the intimate fears of their creators?
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This performance created and performed 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:
1 October, 19.00 – Relationships between the production and the reception of the visual – Xavier Le Roy (lecture)
4 October, 17.00 – Informal showing of workshop “Embodiments and exhibitions” by Xavier Le Roy & Scarlet Yu
Monsters of Circumstances
Once confined to fantasy worlds, books, films, and theatrical stages, monsters have slipped their boundaries. Once the camouflage of our fears, they now inhabit our present confusions, disguising themselves within the fabric of daily life.
This performance, derived from a lecture on “the staging of monstrous bodies and orders,” investigates how monsters are made and how they migrate from fiction into lived reality. It creates monsters to form a space where spectators are invited to re-examine their view of the other, their relationship to the strange, and the shifting thresholds between the acceptable and the unacceptable, the desirable and the undesirable.
Read more about Monsters of Circumstances: "https://www.xavierleroy.com/works/monstresdecirconstances?lang=en ":https://www.xavierleroy.com/works/monstresdecirconstances?lang=en
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/