Xavier Le Roy & Mårten Spångberg
Specific Abilities (Labour in Exile: Le Sacre & Powered by Emotion)

Specific Abilities (Labour in Exile: Le Sacre & Powered by Emotion) Starting from two conceptually related pieces this workshop attempt to scrutinise possibilities for conceptual production of movement. Movement that destabilises common notions of dance articulated on the basis of representation, in favour of processes of differentiation in respect of dance as mode of production. Concepts such as appropriation, post-production, as-found and reiteration will be addressed practically and through discussions, next to notions of practice and its relation to consolidation of expression respectively production of specific abilities. The workshop will evolve around Le Roy’s Le Sacre and Spångberg’s Powered by Emotion, to which the student will be given access as contemporary repertoire. Xavier Le Roy 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 artist in residence at the Podewil, Berlin. He choreographed solo performances "Self Unfinished" (1998), "Product of Circumstances" (1999), was invited by Tanz im August Festival to work with Yvonne Rainer on Meetings (2000), realised a piece of Jérôme Bel Xavier le Roy (2000); choreographed Giszelle (2001) in collaboration with Eszter Salamon; and "Project" (2003) a piece for 15 performers. He also staged Das Theater der Wiederholungen (2003) an opera from Bernhard Lang and Mouvements für Lachenmann (2005) an evening concert with music by Helmut Lachenmann. With the Berliner Philharmoniker Educational Project he choreographed Ionisation from Edgar Varèse with 40 children. Since 2004 he is involved in various educational programs. In 2007 he choreographed a solo on the music of Igor Stravinsky "Le Sacre du Printemps". In 2008 he continues his research on musician gesture and creates "More Mouvements für Lachenmann". In 2007-2008 he is “associated artist” at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France, where he co-direct the education program and together with 9 artists initiated the project 6 months 1 location to explore specific working conditions. In 2009 he presents “To contemplate” at the festival In-Presentable-Madrid and “Xavier fait du Rebutoh” at the Musée de la Danse in Rennes, which he reworks to premiere at PAF under the title: “Product of Other Circumstances”. In 2010 he created “Floor Pieces” at the Julia Stoscheck Collection in Düsseldorf and is invited as a fellow artist in residence at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, USA). Mårten Spångberg Mårten Spångberg is a performance related artist living and working in Stockholm. His interests concern choreography in an expanded field, something that he has approached through experimental practices and creative process in multiplicity of formats and expressions. He has been active on stage as performer and creator since 1994, and has since 1999 created his own choreographies, from solos to works on a larger scale, which have toured internationally. He has collaboratored with among others Xavier Le Roy, Christine De Smedt/Les Ballets C de la B. With the architect Tor Lindstrand he initiated International Festival, an interdisciplinary practice merging architecture and choreography/performance. From 1996 – 2005 Spångberg organised and curated festivals in Sweden and internationally. He initiated the network organisation INPEX in 2006. He has thorough experience in teaching both theory and practice. He is since 2008 director for the MA program in choreography at the University of Dance in Stockholm.