Xavier Le Roy
Le Sacre du printemps
© Le Sacre du printemps, Xavier Le Roy © Hervé Veronese ©
© Le Sacre du printemps, Xavier Le Roy © Hervé Veronese ©
© Le Sacre du printemps, Xavier Le Roy © Hervé Veronese ©
Le Sacre du printemps (2007)
Concept and interpretation, Xavier Le Roy
Music, Igor Stravinsky
Sound design, Peter Boehm
Recording, Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin directed by Sir Simon Rattle
Collaboration, Berno Odo Polzer, Bojana Cvejic
Production Le Kwatt and illusion & macadam / Coproduction Centre chorégraphique national de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon – associated artist 2007-2008 / Résidences de création Les Subsistances (Lyon) ;
Tanz im August – Internationales Tanzfest 2007 (Berlin) ; PACT Zollverein
Choreographisches Zentrum NRW (Essen) / Avec le soutien de NPN (réseau national pour la performance) thanks to funds by the German Federal Cultural Foundation as part of the Tanzplan Deutschland program
Le Sacre du printemps (2023)
Concept, Xavier Le Roy
Artistic collaboration, Scarlet Yu et Alexandre Achour
With dancers studients of Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et danse de Paris, Emma Loïs, Adam Fontaine, Arthur Bordage, Pierrick Claudel, Lou Chaleix, Danaé Durand, Sarah Garnaud, Tom Guilbaud, Suzanne Henry, Lisa Rinsoz, Lyu YingYu
Driving light, Maurice Fouilhé
Production Le Kwatt (F) and illusion & macadam
Le Sacre du printemps (2018)
Concept, Xavier Le Roy
Interpretation, Alexandre Achour, Nicola Van Straaten, Scarlet Yu
Music, Igor Stravinsky
Design sonore, Peter Boehm
Recording, Orchestre Philharmonique de Berlin directed by Sir Simon Rattle
Production Le Kwatt (F) and illusion & macadam
Coproduction La Biennale di Venezia
Thanks CND Centre national de la danse (Pantin)
Kwatt is supported by the Drac d'Île-de-France as a conventioned company
The Théâtre de la Ville-Paris and the Festival d'Automne à Paris present this show in coproduction
With the support of Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Xavier Le Roy presents for the first time three versions of his Sacre du printemps – a piece which reveals different facets of the choreography of an orchestra conductor. In solo, trio or group format, we are provided with three different ways of apprehending bodies at odds with the music.
Who has never copied the movements of an orchestra conductor while listening to music – transcribing the notes by movements? Starting with this elementary relationship between dance and sound, the choreographer Xavier Le Roy focused on the gesture-based syntax of those that direct the orchestra – orienting its intensities and rhythm. Following on from his observations of the movements of orchestra conductors as they direct The Rite of Spring, he created in 2007 an unclassifiable choreographic object which exposes the paradoxes of the relationship between musical gesture and danced gesture – hearing and vision. In response to a proposition by the Venice Dance Biennale, he passed on this score to three dancers, thereby broadening the spectrum of interpretations to other subjectivities, in order to throw light upon the way each body translates Stravinski’s notes. A new extension, devised with twelve students from the Conservatoire de Paris results in a multiple rite in which the different roles are shifted around, thereby blurring the cause and effect relationships between what we hear and what we see. In doing so, the piece prompts each of us to probe into the intimacy of his or her own link with the hearing and bodily-based phenomenon of music.
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