Xavier Le Roy
Product of Circumstances (1999)
Circumstances:
"in 1987 I began to take two dance classes a week at the same time that I started to work on my thesis for my Ph.D. in molecular
and cellular biology. It's been now eight years that I have submitted my thesis and stopped to work as a biologist. Since
I work as a dancer or choreographer I am very often presented as an atypical dancer or as a dancer molecular biologist. It
became my currency in the "Society of the Spectacle". I was invited to prepare and present a lecture for an event on theory
and praxis in performance. (Xavier Le Roy, "Body currency" Wiener Festwochen June '98)"
Product:
"Biography as theory. An autobiographical conference becoming a performance. My body as raw material of social and cultural
organization and as the practice of critical necessity."
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Xavier Roy
Product of Circumstances © Katrin Schoof |
Product of Circumstances by Xavier Le Roy is part of UBS Openings: Saturday Live Characters, Figures and Signs: Choreography as "Doing" and "Saying", curated by Catherine Wood , Curator, contemporary art and performance, and Vanessa Desclaux, Assistant Curator.
Production credits:
By and with: Xavier Le Roy
Production: in situ productions and Le Kwatt
Coproduction: Podewil / TanzWerkstatt-Berlin, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur, Berlin
Thanks to: Chantal Escot-Theillet, Tara Herbst, Mårten Spångberg, Hortensia Völckers and Christophe Wavelet
Biography
Xavier Le Roy studied molecular biology at the University of Montpellier and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since
1991. From 1997 to 2003 he was artist in residence at the Podewil, Berlin. In 2007/08 he is associate artist at the Centre
Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (CCNM) where at the moment, together wtith Bojana Cvéjic he is initiating the project
6M1L (6Month1Location), inviting 9 artists working in different research projects and performance productions as well as other
types of events linked to all activities of the CCNM.
Other performances by Xavier Le Roy, Self Unfinished (1998) and Le Sacre du Printemps (2007) take place at Sadler's Wells in January 2009.
