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.
Wiener Festwochen - Vienna, Austria
22/05/1999
17/11/1999
Danças na Cidade - Lisbon, Portugal
24/11/1999
23/01/2000
La Ménagerie de Verre - Paris, France
04/02/2000
10/02/2000
06/04/2000
25/06/2000
Arteleku - San Sebastian, Spain
30/06/2000
07/07/2000
Tanzwerkstatt Europa - München, Germany
29/07/2000
06/10/2000
Black Box Theatre - Oslo, Norway
10/10/2000
Springdance - Utrecht, Netherlands
17/04/2001
HetVeemTheatre | Amsterdam, Netherlands
16/05/2001
Goethe Institut Bogota - Bogota, Colombia
27/10/2001
30/04/2002
Dance Festival Zagreb | Zagreb, Croatia
04/06/2002
Bellone Brigittines asbl - Brussels, Belgium
03/09/2002
Le Labo, Le Lieu Unique - Nantes, France
28/09/2002
21/11/2002
04/05/2003
24/05/2003
Tanzwerkstatt, Podewil - Berlin, Germany
11/10/2003
Lycée de l’Escaut - Valenciennes, France
02/12/2003
11/01/2005
Agitato, Air Libre - Rennes, France
20/05/2005
03/12/2005
17/05/2006
Kulczyk Foundation - Poznan, Poland
05/07/2006
18/04/2007
23/04/2007
Dialoge, Republic - Salzburg, Austria
02/12/2007
University-Bordeaux 3 - Bordeaux, France
21/01/2008
28/03/2008
Tate Modern - London, Great Britain
20/02/2009
Goethe Institut - Jakarta, Indonesia
09/10/2009
Seymour Theater Center - Sidney, Australia
20/11/2009
Dancehouse - Melbourne, Australia
27/11/2009
Festival Uzès Danse - Uzès, France
18/06/2011
Mercat de les Flors - Barcelona, Spain
12/04/2012
CCN - Ballet de Lorraine - Nancy
27/04/2012
Haus der Kultur der Welt – Berlin, Germany
05/05/2012
Para/Site Art Space - Hong Kong
28/08/2012
Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
20/03/2014
26/04/2014
12/10/2014
03/04/2015
21/03/2019
TPAC Opening season, Taipei - Taiwan
27/08/2022
Brot und Butter, Hfg - Offenbach, Germany
18/04/2023
