Produit d'autres circonstances (2009)
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Le Roy, Xavier (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Produit d'autres circonstances (2009)
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Le Roy, Xavier (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Produit d'autres circonstances (2009)
Ten years after Produit de circonstances, and at the request of Boris Charmatz, who took him at his word when he said: “you need just two hours to become a butō dancer”, Xavier Le Roy put on a new self-referenced solo which, this time, focused on the practically improvised apprenticeship of this dance form, which he does not master professionally. After some research carried out as an amateur, he relays how you can train to learn a foreign dance, by your own means (through videos found on the web, testimonies, books, etc…), while running the risk of displaying the failure of this attempt. Illustrated by these assorted documents, this non-professional demonstration examines apprenticeship in terms of economy and personal investment, as well as the possibility for attentive choreographers to leave behind their fields of expertise. Punctuated by several danced solos— improvised, rerun or imitated — the piece finally raises questions about the methods of apprenticeship and the transmission of a memory via a demonstration of humility shared intimately, which avoids neither doubts nor hesitations.
Source: program of the CN D
Le Roy, Xavier
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as artist since 1991. Since 2018 works as Professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen (Germany). He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was “Associated Artist”at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France. In 2010 Le Roy is an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA). In 2012, he begins a 3 years residency at Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris. Through his solo works such as « Self Unfinished (1998) » and « Product of Circumstances (1999) », he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreography.
At the same time, he initiated projects exploring the modes of production and collaboration in group works: "E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S." (1999-2000), "Project" (2003) and "6 Months 1 Location" (2008).
His works such as the soli "Le Sacre du Printemps" (2007), "Untitled" (2014), the group piece "low pieces" (2011), and works for exhibition spaces such as "production" (2011) created together with Mårten Spångberg, "Untitled" (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms, "Retrospective" first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, "Temporary Title, 2015" created at Sydney in the frame of John Kaldor Public Art Project or "For The Unfaithful Replica" (2016) in collaboration with Scarlet Yu at CA2M Madrid; produce situations that explore the relationships between spectactors / visitors / performers and the production of subjectivities.
His works produce situations that question, the relationships between spectators/visitors and performers and are attempt to transform or reconfigure dichotomies such as: object / subject, animal / human, machine / human, nature / culture, public / private, form / unform.
In 2017, together with Ensemble Issho Ni they create for the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt: the exhibition "Haben Sie "Modern" gesagt?", and he developped, together with Scarlet Yu, "Still Untitled", a work for public spaces commissioned by Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017.
Source: Xavier Leroy website
More information: www.xavierleroy.com/
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Produit d'autres circonstances (2009)
Artistic direction / Conception : Xavier Le Roy
Interpretation : Xavier Le Roy
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 22 mars 2019
Duration : 123 minutes
James Carlès
Bagouet Collection
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