Le Sacre du Printemps (2007)
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Le Roy, Xavier (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Le Sacre du Printemps (2007)
2019 - Director : Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Choreographer(s) : Le Roy, Xavier (France)
Present in collection(s): CN D - Spectacles et performances
Video producer : Centre national de la danse
Integral video available at CND de Pantin
Le Sacre du Printemps (2007)
(The Rite of Spring) (2007)
This “Rite” proceeds from an inversion: instead of a choreography for dancers, in an umpteenth variation of the iconic piece written by Nijinsky, Xavier Le Roy sets about staging the gestures of the conductor as he directs the performance of Stravinsky’s music. Inspired by a documentary about the Berlin Philharmoniker, Rhythm is it!, the choreographer examines the relationship between music and movement while upsetting their order of causality. For, such gestures are the real motors of music as much as they are determined by it, in a way that intention and execution seem to become mingled. What Xavier Le Roy calls the “synchronising machine”, of seeing and hearing, is thus based on the possibility of an aesthetic, temporal community between the conductor, the spectators and the musicians. The bodily experience of listening is accordingly no longer apprehended as a purely auditory phenomenon, but as an incarnated process, out-smarting the expectations of the public and reinventing the conditions of their reception.
Source: program of the CND
Le Roy, Xavier
Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as artist since 1991. Since 2018 works as Professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen (Germany). 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, MA). In 2012, he begins a 3 years residency at Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris. Through his solo works such as « Self Unfinished (1998) » and « Product of Circumstances (1999) », he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreography.
At the same time, he initiated projects exploring the modes of production and collaboration in group works: "E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S." (1999-2000), "Project" (2003) and "6 Months 1 Location" (2008).
His works such as the soli "Le Sacre du Printemps" (2007), "Untitled" (2014), 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, "Retrospective" first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, "Temporary Title, 2015" created at Sydney in the frame of John Kaldor Public Art Project or "For The Unfaithful Replica" (2016) in collaboration with Scarlet Yu at CA2M Madrid; produce situations that explore the relationships between spectactors / visitors / performers and the production of subjectivities.
His works produce situations that question, the relationships between spectators/visitors and performers and are attempt to transform or reconfigure dichotomies such as: object / subject, animal / human, machine / human, nature / culture, public / private, form / unform.
In 2017, together with Ensemble Issho Ni they create for the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt: the exhibition "Haben Sie "Modern" gesagt?", and he developped, together with Scarlet Yu, "Still Untitled", a work for public spaces commissioned by Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017.
Source: Xavier Leroy website
More information: www.xavierleroy.com/
Centre national de la danse, Réalisation
Since 2001, the National Center for Dance (CND) has been making recordings of its shows and educational programming and has created resources from these filmed performances (interviews, danced conferences, meetings with artists, demonstrations, major lessons, symposia specialized, thematic arrangements, etc.).
Le Sacre du Printemps (2007)
Artistic direction / Conception : Xavier Le Roy
Additionnal music : Igor Stravinsky - Enregistrement Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin dirigé par Sir Simon Rattle
Sound : Peter Böhm
Other collaborations : Berno Odo Polzer, Bojana Cvejic
Production / Coproduction of the video work : Enregistré au CND le 27 mars 2019
Duration : 45 minutes
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