THE RITE OF SPRING (2007)
Concept and performance: Xavier Le Roy
Music: Igor Stravinsky
Sound Design: Peter Boehm
Recording: Berliner Philharmoniker conducted by Sir Simon Rattle
Collaborators: Berno Polzer, Bojana Cvejic
Management/Organisation: Vincent Cavaroc / Fanny Herserant
Production: Le Kwatt (F) and illusion et macadam (F)
Coproduction: Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon (Xavier Le Roy Associated Artist 2007/08), Les Subsistances / Residence - Lyon, Tanz im August - Internationales Tanzfest 2007 - Berlin, PACT Zollverein Choreographisches Zentrum NRW - Essen
Supported by the national performance network with funding provided by the German Federal Cultural Foundation as part of its project Dance Plan Germany
Observing the Berlin Philharmonic during a rehearsal of "Le Sacre du Printemps" in 2003 (documented in "Rhythm is it" DVD), Xavier Le Roy decided to work on Stravinsky's classic from an interest in the movements of conducting. Having no musical training, Le Roy ventured into a laborious process of studying a conductor's interpretation as if it were a choreography of its own.
An inversion of cause and function unfolds: the gestures and the movements that are meant to prompt musicians to play appear at the same time to be produced by the music they are supposed to produce.
When is one playing and when is one being played by this highly motile music? What is the moment before and after the sound, the movement, the intention to move, the motorics of the play? How much is our pleasure in listening to music rise in live performance conducted by a desire for, and a trouble about, the synchronicity of a well-functioning machine?
There are as many bodies as there are different roles and perspectives in listening: what hears the musician, the conductor or the spectator when hearing as a result becomes part of an embodied, inevitably visceral experience of movement and sound?
Les Subsistances - Lyon, France (Premiere)
27/06/2007
FAR, Théâtre de l'usine - Nyon, Switzerland
17/08/2007
Fondation Royaumont - Royaumont, France
25/08/2007
SESC Anchieta - Sao Paulo, Bresil
02/11/2007
Panorama Festival - Rio de Janeiro, Bresil
07/11/2007
Dialoge, Mozarteum - Salzburg, Austria
29/11/2007
Tanzquartier Wien - Wien, Austria
13/12/2007
Gessnerallee - Zurich, Switzerland
18/12/2007
10/01/2008
Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, France
08/02/2008
Mousonturm - Francfourt, Germany
15/02/2008
21/03/2008
Stadttheater Bozen, transart - Bozen, Italy
20/09/2008
Wien Modern, Konzerthaus - Vienna, Austria
05/11/2008
Sadler's Wells - London, Great Britain
22/01/2009
Slodownia – Stary Browar - Poznan, Poland
21/03/2009
20/04/2009
Sawy Cultural Center - Cairo, Egypt
10/05/2009
14/05/2009
28/05/2009
La Casa Encendida - Madrid, Spain
27/06/2009
Impulstanz, MQ, Halle G - Vienna, Austria
29/07/2009
Teatro Maria Matos - Lissabon, Portugal
17/09/2009
Esplanade Thetare Studio - Singapoure
15/10/2009
16/12/2009
06/02/2010
Festival Bo:om - Seoul, South Corea
28/03/2010
03/04/2010
TanzHaus - Düsseldorf, Germany
07/09/2010
festival idans - Istanbul, Turkey
15/10/2010
18/10/2010
30/10/2010
Festival Uzès Danse - Uzès, France
18/06/2011
Mercat de les Flors - Barcelona, Spain
28/03/2012
Plastique danse flore - Versailles, France
13/04/2013
Cultuurcentrum - Brugge, Brussels
22/05/2013
27/05/2013
Bienal SESC de Danca - Santos, Brasil
10/09/2013
Alte Oper - Frankfurt, Germany
15/09/2013
26/09/2013
Panorama festival - Rio, Brazil
26/10/2013
San Martín Theatre - Buenos Aires, Argentina
20/11/2013
Experimental Theater, NTCH - Taipei, Taiwan.
06/07/2018
27/03/2019
27/03/2019
