"Sans Titre"
MARIA MATOS TEATRO MUNICIPAL
16 and 17 May at 9.30pm (Saturday and Sunday)
Portuguese Premiere
Concept and performance: Xavier Le Roy Technical direction: Bruno Moinard Mannequins: Coco Petitpierre Rehearsal assistant: Scarlet Yu Organization: Vincent Cavaroc, Fanny Herserant - Illusion & Macadam Production: Le Kwatt Photography: Jamie North-Kaldor Co-production: Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Festival d'Automne à Paris, PACT Zollverein, Kaaitheater, Festival Theaterformen Hanovre Supports: Le Kwatt is supported by the Direction Régionale des Affaires Culturelles d'Ile-de-France Technique: Dance and Mannequins For audiences over: +12 Language: English Running time: Approx. 70 min. Tickets online
Strange situations...
Going to see a show equates to a number of people gathering in a room, taking their seats, the lights going down, and watching a single or a number of individuals carrying out actions on the stage. For many practitioners and audiences alike, this secular convention, by now quasi-constitutive of the theatre, goes without thinking. Since the late 1990’s, the choreographer Xavier Le Roy has made his mark as an unparalleled laboratory technician and major figure of conceptual dance, together with Jérôme Bel, precisely due to his passion for phenomena that others can no longer see.
Sans Titre (Untitled) is a three-pronged performance: lecture, concert and dance performance. It changes the (social or aesthetic) rules of the game and observes how slowly a new equilibrium emerges. In so doing Xavier Le Roy develops a theme that fascinates him: that we need rules, but equally we need to change them. In Sans Titre he experiments with various kinds of theatre, but over and again he changes elements that are necessary for the normal development of the show. As a result audiences and actors have to negotiate with each other about how they relate to these strange situations. What happens when the lecture no longer has a text? When the music becomes mute? When the dancers stop moving?
Strange situations...
Going to see a show equates to a number of people gathering in a room, taking their seats, the lights going down, and watching a single or a number of individuals carrying out actions on the stage. For many practitioners and audiences alike, this secular convention, by now quasi-constitutive of the theatre, goes without thinking. Since the late 1990’s, the choreographer Xavier Le Roy has made his mark as an unparalleled laboratory technician and major figure of conceptual dance, together with Jérôme Bel, precisely due to his passion for phenomena that others can no longer see.
Sans Titre (Untitled) is a three-pronged performance: lecture, concert and dance performance. It changes the (social or aesthetic) rules of the game and observes how slowly a new equilibrium emerges. In so doing Xavier Le Roy develops a theme that fascinates him: that we need rules, but equally we need to change them. In Sans Titre he experiments with various kinds of theatre, but over and again he changes elements that are necessary for the normal development of the show. As a result audiences and actors have to negotiate with each other about how they relate to these strange situations. What happens when the lecture no longer has a text? When the music becomes mute? When the dancers stop moving?
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BIO
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. 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, USA). Through his solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998) and Product of Circumstances (1999), he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreographic art.
His latest works such as the solo “Le Sacre du Printemps” (2007), 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 and “Retrospective” first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, produce situations that explore the relationships between spectacors/visitors/performers and the production of subjectivities.
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. 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, USA). Through his solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998) and Product of Circumstances (1999), he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreographic art.
His latest works such as the solo “Le Sacre du Printemps” (2007), 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 and “Retrospective” first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, produce situations that explore the relationships between spectacors/visitors/performers and the production of subjectivities.
Xavier Le Roy > Untitled (2014) from PACT Zollverein on Vimeo.
