Xavier Le Roy
SALUT FÜR CAUDWELL / LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS
- Performance Choreography & Music
Xavier Le Roy’s two latest works SALUT FÜR CAUDWELL and LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS investigate the relationships between movement and music in conventional concert and theatrical performances.
SALUT FÜR CAUDWELL
EXTRACT FROM MOUVEMENTS FÜR LACHENMANN. STAGING OF AN EVENING CONCERT
Xavier Le Roy’s Mouvements für Lachenmann, a staged concert of compositions by Helmut Lachenmann including Salut für Caudwell for two guitars, was commissioned by Wien Modern 2005. Here the choreographer takes up on the perceivable gap in Lachenmann’s music between the action producing a sound and the resultant sound. All possible forms of disassociation between what can be seen, heard, or silenced, unfold in a line of flight from a regular concert.
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS
Inspired by a clip of Sir Simon Rattle rehearsing with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in the film Rhythm is it! Xavier Le Roy became interested in Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps. He studied Rattle’s interpretation comprehensively as though it was an autonomous choreography. In the process cause and effect were reversed: the conductor’s gestures and movements, essentially meant to synchronise the musicians, appear to originate from the music itself.
SALUT FÜR CAUDWELL
Production, choreography: Xavier Le Roy
Music: Helmut Lachenmann, Salut für Caudwell for two guitars (1977)
Guitar: Gunter Schneider, Barbara Romen, Tom Pauwels, Günther Lebbing
Dramaturgy: Bojana Cvejić, Berno Odo Polzer
Sound design: Wolfgang Musil
Production: Wiener Taschenoper
Co-production: Tanzquartier Wien, Wien Modern, Hebbel Theater (Berlin)
Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin
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© Photo: Reinhard Werner
LE SACRE DU PRINTEMPS
Premiere: 27. June 2007 Lyon Subsistances
Concept, performance: Xavier Le Roy
Music: Igor Strawinsky
Director of sound: Peter Böhm
Artistic assistance: Bojana Cvejić, Berno Odo Polzer
Recording: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under the musical direction of Sir Simon Rattle
A guest performance, presented by PACT Zollverein / Tanzlandschaft Ruhr for the RuhrTriennale.
Production: Salut für Caudwell is a production of Wiener Taschenoper in
co-production with Tanzquartier Wien, Wien Modern, Hebbel Theater
Berlin.
Supported by Hauptstadtkulturfonds Berlin.
Production : Le Kwatt and in situ productions
Co-production: 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 (Essen)
Supported by Nationale Performance Netz with funds from Tanzplan Deutschland – an initiative of The Federal Cultural Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes.
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A guest performance arranged and presented by PACT Zollverein/Tanzlandschaft Ruhr for the RuhrTriennale.
The performances at PACT Zollverein are supported by the Minister President of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
© Photo: Xavier le Le Roy
