Prof. Dr. Xavier Le Roy
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Prof. Dr. Xavier Le Roy
Professorship in Applied Theatre Studies with a Focus on the Practice of Performance Arts
Short Biography
Xavier Le Roy studied molecular biology at the University of Montpellier and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. From 1997 to 2003, he was an artist-in-residence at Podewil in Berlin. He choreographed the solo performances Self Unfinished (1998) and Product of Circumstances (1999), was invited to the Tanz im August festival to collaborate with Yvonne Rainer on Meetings (2000), performed a piece by Jérôme Bel Xavier Le Roy (2000), and choreographed Giszelle (2001) in collaboration with Eszter Salamon and Project (2003) for 15 performance artists. He also staged Das Theater der Wiederholungen (2003), an opera by Bernhard Lang, and Mouvements für Lachenmann(2005), an evening concert featuring music by Helmut Lachenmann. For the Berliner Philharmoniker Educational Project, he choreographed Ionisation by Edgard Varèse with 40 children.
Since 2004, he has been involved in various educational projects. In 2007, he choreographed a solo set to music by Igor Stravinsky (Le Sacre du Printemps). In 2008, he continued his research on musical gesture, creating the piece More Mouvements für Lachenmann. From 2007 to 2008, he was an associated artist at the Chorégraphique National de Montpellier in France, where he served as co-director of the training program. Together with nine performance artists, he initiated the project 6 month 1 location to explore specific working conditions. In 2009, he presented To Contemplate at the In-Presentable festival in Madrid and Xavier fait du Rebutoh at the Museum of Dance in Rennes, which he later revised and premiered at PAF under the title Product of Other Circumstances.
In 2010, he created Floor Pieces at the Julia Stoschek Collection in Düsseldorf and was invited as a Fellow Artist-in-Residence to the MIT program Art, Culture and Technology in Cambridge, USA.
Since October 1, 2023, Prof. Le Roy has been the managing director of the Institute for Applied Theatre Studies.