One day, Xavier Le Roy supposedly said to Boris Charmatz: "To become a butoh dancer, all you need is two hours." A few years later, Charmatz remembered this statement and asked him to take responsibility for his words, that is to say to create a piece based on this statement. That was how Produit d'autres circonstances was born, as a direct reference to another solo by Xavier Le Roy created in 1999, Produit de circonstances, in which the choreographer recounted how he switched from science to dance in the form of a lecture. Xavier Le Roy uses the narrative form again here, not without humour. Rather than simply giving the public a butoh demonstration, that minimalist dance which appeared in Japan in reaction to the traumas of World War II, he chooses to also reveal the research process that underlies the conception of this piece. We thus follow the work of an artist who tries to get closer to a culture that is foreign to him, by using all the means at his disposal, notably the Internet. The main point of Produit d'autres circonstances is to have us share a thought process through to its final form. It is a reflection on contemporary artistic apprenticeship and production methods as well as an original show, between dance and words. An unclassifiable piece/process through which Xavier Le Roy continues to demonstrate that the choreographic field is extremely vast and that it can encompass the most diverse gestures, discourses and relations with the public. MF
Distribution
conception and interpretation Xavier Le Roy
Production
production Le Kwatt
coproduction Musée de la danse/Centre chorégraphique national de Rennes et de Bretagne
