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After a week of exploring movement materials and modes of embodiment inspired by museum-based works – experimenting with performer-spectator relationships, spatial dynamics, and the interpretive possibilities of non-traditional exhibition spaces – the TOWARDS:2025 workshop Embodiments and Exhibitions by Xavier Le Roy culminates in a public presentation where spectators can step into a gallery-like performance experience.
Watch the informal showing on Saturday, 4 October, at 17:00 at Vitlycke – CPA.
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This informal showing is organised on the final day of choreographer’s Xavier Le Roy “Embodiments and Exhibitions”, a workshop 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)
3 October, 19.00 – Performance: Monsters of Circumstances by Xavier le Roy
Embodiments and Exhibitions workshop extends the experiments developed for works (such as “Retrospective” (2012- 2018) and “Temporary Title, 2015” ) conceived for the times and spaces of museum exhibitions. To this aim the group will work on materials developed for these situations and the ways in which they can be interpreted. The workshop participants will explore the interpretive potential given by spaces without architectural pre-given front, or 4th wall, how the possibility for visitors to enter and exit at will induces choreography without being able to decide the time, duration, beginning and end of the visitor’s experience, and how the oscillation between proximity and distance between performers and visitors becomes a choreographic parameter.
The workshop participants will get to work on 2 or 3 movement materials and specific modes of embodiment/incorporation. Alternating between the roles of performer and spectator, participants will explore how these materials can also produce specific qualities of relationship between the performers and between the spectators and the performers, i.e. how one choreographs the other and vice versa. To complement these explorations, at the end of the workshop, a public showing/sharing will allow participants to present their work in a context similar to an exhibition.
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/