Xavier Le Roy

In this new piece by Xavier Le Roy, time and space become the means for an encounter between the audience and the work of art. They emerge by means of a constant movement back and forth: from the recognisable to the shapeless, from interiority to exteriority, and from the self to the other. With this aim in mind, the performers cover and uncover themselves with garments the multiple layers of which blend into each other in a mosaic of rugs, unsettling our gaze and dissolving the categories imposed by the imperatives of identity. The choreography, inspired by the movements of a fountain, amplify the effects of a living presence. In this startling environment, in which movement, sculpture, matter and sound are brought together in order to weave relationships based on presence, two central questions emerge: how can we imagine ourselves and live as “things”, breathing in and out between interiority and exteriority? How do we enable a world to appear, where simply being there would be sufficient? Just this. Which would already be quite a lot