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Call out for performers/participants towards a re-activation of Xavier Le Roy’s ‘Project’
Research workshop and public event led by Rosanna Irvine
Mon 2 to Thur 5 April at Siobhan Davies Studios, London

Xavier Le Roy performed ‘Project’ as part of Nottdance Festival 2004, a work which, typical of Le Roy’s approach, is concerned with posing specific problems. Addressing the relations between production, process and product, Le Roy worked with groups of performers to develop rules for games that would be ‘performed’ in theatre situations. The problem he probed in ‘Project’ was around the co-existence of ‘choreographic rules’ with ‘the application of rules’ that are made for games (Le Roy). In situating the subsequent ‘games’ as choreography the project raises questions around representation, authorship and spectatorship. For more about ‘Project’ see www.insituproductions.net/_eng/frameset.html. Click on ‘Productions’ then on ‘Project 2003.’

Le Roy has made available a ‘General Rules Score’ for ‘Project.’ In the research workshop we will work with this to begin to construct (new) games and new rules for a performance event. This will involve working together while talking, moving, playing, negotiating, agreeing, disagreeing and more.  It may also involve microphones, pre-recorded music and live video. We will perform these (new) games as a choreographic event with a public at the end of the four days, followed by open dialogue/discussion.

If you would like to participate please contact rosanna.irvine@gmail.com with a paragraph giving an indication of your background and why you are interested in the project. Dance artists and performers with an interest in conceptually orientated, physical, and improvisational approaches to performance making may be particularly interested – but those who are less familiar with these (choreographic) approaches and open to the indicated territory in performance practices are also invited to get in touch.

For Rosanna’s work see: www.rosanna-irvine.co.uk
Contact: rosanna.irvine@gmail.com

This research is part of an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with University of Northampton and Dance4.