22 Feb (Wed)
Prof. Anna CY Chan will lead the discussion with international choreographers Xavier Le Roy and Scarlet Yu to explore how different modes of production are shaping performance practice today. With each speaker discussing how their latest performances and choreographic practice derived from live art actions in the museum context affect their engagement with the audience, and in what ways they wish to create connection through immediacy of their works.
Speakers:
Xavier Le Roy, International Choreographer
Scarlet Yu, International Choreographer
Moderator:
Prof. Anna CY Chan, Dean of the School of Dance, The Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
About Xavier Le Roy
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.
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.
In 2021, they take up the form of this work to create: "Still in Hong Kong" as part of the exhibition "Trust and Confusion" at Taikwun Contemporary Art Center - Hong Kong, and in 2022 "Still (Life) ln Taipei" for the opening of the Taipei Performing Art Center.
In 2018 on the invitation of La Biennale di Venezia he created a new version of the piece "The Rite of Spring" for 3 performers, a piece he will continue to work on in 2020 in Venice with 11 performers from the Biennale College Danzatori during La Biennale Danza, and then in 2022 in Berlin, in collaboration with Saša Asentić with, among others, hearing impaired artists. This last version of The Rite of Spring, will be the continuation of a work around the question of "norms" and the place of disability in our societies, and follows the collaboration with Dalibor Šandor and the group Per.Art. to create "We are not monsters" 2020-2021.
About Scarlet Yu
Scarlet Yu, born in Hong Kong, currently living in Berlin. She obtained an M.F.A in Dance from The Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts in 2015. Yu’s artistic practices take on a transdisciplinary approach to choreography, focussed on the in-betweenness of the politic and the poetic of listening and telling. Using Autobiography and Memory as a tool to reexamine private/public embodied narration. Her works have been presented in various contexts in museums, galleries, theatres, and Public Spaces.
Her collaborative work includes the open-source work "IsLand Bar'', presented by Taipei Arts Festival, Rockbund art museum Shanghi, and Subfest-Substation Singapore. "M(other)hood: Camping" presented by Taipei Arts Festival with Tung I-fen. “Still (Life) in Taipei 2022” commissioned by Taipei Performing Arts Center, “Still in Hong Kong, 2021” commissioned by Tai Kwan Museum of Art, "Still Untitled'' in Sculpture Projects Münster 2017, "For Performance!" at Tripostal, Lille, France, " For The Unfaithful Replica" at Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, "Temporary Title 2015" commissioned by Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney and "Retrospective" Singapore, Beruit, Taipei, Mexico City and Berlin edition with Xavier Le Roy. "Möchten Sie ein Monster sehen?'' presented in Berlinische Galerie and The Gallery of Matica Srpska with Saša Asentić and Pre.Art. In early 2010, she collaborated with Theater Director Haris Pasovic (Bosnia), Teatro de los Sentidos (Spain), Ming Poon for "The infinitesimal distance between two bodies…” at Singapore Dan;s Festival and Hong Kong Filmmaker Maurice Lai, for “Rite of City - Reminisce” a dance film selected for Cannes short film corner.
Yu was a jury member for Tanzplattform Germany 2018, an artist in residency at Hombroich Summer Fellows and ADAM-Asia Discovers Asia Meeting for Contemporary Performance in 2017. Worked as Rehearsal Director in The Arts Fission Company, Singapore (2000-10) and Program Executive in Skyhigh Creative Partners (2011-12) A scholarship recipient of Ohel Leah Scholarship 2013/14 and HKAUW Postgraduate Scholarship 2014/15. Grant recipient of Hong Kong Arts Development Council and Arts Network Asia.
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