Product of Circumstances (1999)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.
Circumstances: "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 choreograph 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 ("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.
Marija Krtolica About Product of Circumstances (1999) – NYC September 2011
Although Le Roy’s work is often humorous, it invites serious investigations of the subject in relationship to the apparatuses of control within the scientific environment, in dance studios, and everyday public areas. The explicit choreographic statements are followed by the understatements. These latent meanings instigate the viewer to register the projections appearing in the interstices between hierarchies, needs and desires, produced as well as obscured by the dominant structures. Le Roy’s performance is a space of philosophical investigations which through micro actions perform subtle subversion of hierarchical organizational forms. These performative acts inspire awareness of the ways that hierarchies manifest themselves in the society today, and of the complex of rationalizations that give those manifestations support.
Tate Modern - London, Great Britain2009/02/20
Goethe Institut - Jakarta, Indonesia2009/10/09
Centre culturel de la Coopération - Buenos Aires, Argentinia2009/11/04
Seymour Theater Center - Sidney, Australia2009/11/20
Dancehouse - Melbourne, Australia 2009/11/27
University-Bordeaux 3 - Bordeaux, France2008/01/21
LIFE - St. Nazaire, France2008/03/28
FIAC Ouvertures/openings, Auditorium du Jeu de Paume - Paris, France2008/10/25
La Mekanica, Festival Complicitats - Barcelona, Spain2007/02/16
Montpellier Danse, Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon - Montpellier, France2007/02/20
Diverse Works - Houston, USA 2007/04/18
MIT - Boston, USA2007/04/23
iDANS-Festival, Muammer Karaca - Istanbul, Turkey
2007/10/06
Dialoge, Republic - Salzburg, Austria
2007/12/02
Le Magasin - Grenoble, France2006/05/17
Kulczyk Foundation - Poznan, Poland
2006/07/05
Universität Hamburg, Germany2005/01/11
Les Prèsqu'iles de la Danse, La Ferme du Buisson - Paris, France2005/02/13
unfriendly takeover, atelierfrankfurt - Francfort, Germany2005/05/05
Agitato, Air Libre - Rennes, France
2005/05/20
imPact 05 | Choreographisches Zentrum Essen - Pact Zollverein, Essen, Germany2005/10/30
Théâtre Châtillon - France2005/12/03
Sommerakademie - Mousontheater, Francfort, Germany
2004/05/27
Festival Uzès Danse - Uzès, France2011/06/18
Internationalen Bonner Tanzsolo Festival - Bonn, Germany
2011/02/15
Interaction & connectivity festival - Salvador Bahia, Brazil2011/06/14
Crossing the line - FIAF - New York City, USA2011/09/20
Chronicles of Work, Schloss Solitude - Stuttgart, Germany2011/11/24
Mercat de les Flors - Barcelona, Spain2012/04/12
Centro Gabriel Mistral / Institut Français - Santiago du Chili2012/07/06
CCN - Ballet de Lorraine - Nancy2012/04/27
Para/Site Art Space - Hong Kong2012/08/28
Haus der Kultur der Welt – Berlin, Germany2012/05/05
"On Research" Haus der Kultur der welt - Berlin, Germany2012/05/05
Acts Of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein - Stuttgart, Germany2012/12/01
Wiener Festwochen - Vienna, Austria
1999/05/22
CDC - Toulouse, France
1999/11/17
Danças na Cidade - Lisbon, Portugal
1999/11/24
Kampnagel - Hambourg, Germany
2000/01/23
La Ménagerie de Verre - Paris, France
2000/02/04
ADC - Geneva, Switzerland
2000/02/10
TNB - Rennes, France
2000/04/06
Bilbao, France
2000/06/25
Arteleku - San Sebastian, Spain
2000/06/30
Bilbao, Espagne
2000/07/07
Tanzwerkstatt Europa - München, Germany
2000/07/29
BIT - Bergen, Norway
2000/10/06
Black Box Theatre - Oslo, Norway
2000/10/10
Springdance - Utrecht, Netherlands
2001/04/17
Brake Grond, Grand Magasin - Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001/04/26
Kunstenfestival des Arts+Kaaitheater, Kaaitheater Studios | Brussels, Belgium
2001/05/07
HetVeemTheatre | Amsterdam, Netherlands
2001/05/16
The Place Theatre, ICA - London, Great Britain
2001/05/29
Von Krahl Teatre, 2tants promotion - Tallinn, Estonia
2001/09/01
Ayloul Festival, Lebanese Association for Contemporary art - Beyrouth, Liban Buchpräsentation Helmut Ploebst
2001/09/10
Goethe Institut Bogota - Bogota, Colombia
2001/10/27
Marseille Objectif Danse, Théâtre de la Friche - Marseille, France
2001/11/06
nouvelles collations, Opéra Rouen | Rouen France
2001/11/10
BIG Turino - Turin, Italy
2002/04/30
Dance Festival Zagreb | Zagreb, Croatia
2002/06/04
Bellone Brigittines asbl - Brussels, Belgium
2002/09/03
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Acarte - Lisbon, Portugal
2002/09/27
Le Labo, Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, France
2002/09/28
Cankarjev Dom", Kosovel Hall - Ljubljana, Slowenia
2002/10/30
Arsenal - Metz, France
2002/11/21
Espace Pier Paolo Pasolini - Valenciennes, France
2002/11/27
Theatre Minard, presented by Vooruit - Gent, Belgium
2003/01/16
Theatre Minard, presented by Vooruit - Gent, Belgium
2003/01/17
Riga, Lethuania
2003/05/04
Pôle Sud, Strasbourg, France
2003/05/24
Tanzwerkstatt, Podewil - Berlin, Germany
2003/10/11
Lycée de l’Escaut - Valenciennes, France
2003/12/02
"Movimiento Sur", Parque Cultural - Valparaíso, Chili
2013/11/24
Théâtre de la Cité Universitaire - Paris, France2013/12/06
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany2014/03/20
EMPAC - TROY, NY, USA2014/04/26
MOMA PS1 - New York, USA2014/10/12
BAC - Beirut, Lebanon
2015/04/03
Auditorium of MEG Musée d’ethnographie - Genève, Switzerland2015/06/02
Conference-festival Bots, Bodies, Beasts - The art of being Humble, Amsterdam2016/04/08
CND - Paris, France2019/03/21
Festival The non-fungible body?, OÖ Landes-Kultur, Linz - Austria2022/06/18
TPAC Opening season, Taipei - Taiwan2022/08/27
La Manufacture - Haute école des arts de la scène, Lausanne - Switzerland2023/02/06
Offenbach University of Art and Design, Offenbach am main - Germany2023/06/01
Brot und Butter, Hfg - Offenbach, Germany2023/04/18
Inaccoutumés festival, Ménagerie de Verre - Paris, France2023/10/05
