POA 2025 Closing Studio with Xavier Le Roy
(Images courtesy of Xavier Le Roy)
About This Event
A fully subsidised work-in-studio exploration with acclaimed contemporary dancer and choreographer, Closing Studio with Xavier Le Roy marks the finale of the third and final iteration of Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations — live gathering of Per°Form Fellows, intersectional practitioners across diverse disciplines of curation, research, education, visual culture, performance presenting their strategies for activating contexts and communities.
From 24-28 February 2025, 6.30-10.30pm daily, Xavier will conduct Workshop: Embodiments and Exhibitions, extending the experiments developed for works such as "Retrospective" (2012- ) and "Temporary Title" (2015) conceived for the times and spaces of museum exhibitions.
Working on 2 or 3 movement materials, as well noises and specific modes of embodiment, this workshop examines the alternating roles of performer and spectator. Participants explore and reflect on how the materials generated can produce specific qualities of relationship between the performers, and between the spectators and the performers, i.e. how one choreographs the other and vice versa.
We will explore the interpretive potential given by spaces without an architectural pre-given front, how the possibility for visitors to enter and exit at will induces choreography without being able to decide the time, duration, beginning and end of the visitor's experience, and how the oscillation between proximity and distance between performers and visitors becomes a choreographic parameter.
Limited slots only, please contact perform@tworksasia.org for more information.
Donation Ticketing
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If you are in a position to give more, please consider further contributions towards this and future iterations of Per°Form Open Academy. Your contributions, no matter big or small, help us mount Per°Form Open Academy and enable a gathering of arts practitioners and cultural innovators from the Global South in Singapore. Details are in the donation portal below.
About Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy holds a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has been working as an artist since 1991. Since 2018, he has been a professor at the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen, Germany.
He has been at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA) (2010), and at the Théâtre de la Cité Internationale, Paris (2012-2015). With solo works such as Self Unfinished (1998), Product of Circumstances (1999) and Le sacre du printemps (2007), he has opened up new perspectives in choreography.
His works are experimental, motivated by the need for transformation, questions about the notion of movement and what it produces. They are guided by the desire to alter our understanding of dichotomies such as: Human/Non-Human, Subject/Object, Passive/ Active, Norma/Anormal, ...., and to multiply our perspectives.
Admission Rules
Rating / Age Limit
- No age limit for registration.
- All other admissions are subject to valid registration tickets produced at the entrance.
Photography / Video Recording Rules
- Please note that photographs and videos of patrons may be taken at the event for use in our archival and publicity materials.
Refund Policy
- All donations are non-refundable.
Wheelchair Users
- 72-13 is wheelchair-accessible and includes limited wheelchair seating. Please contact us at 6737 7213 to book wheelchair seats.
Contact Us
- For more information on Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations, visit performfellowship.org.
- For any enquiries, please email perform@tworksasia.org or call at 6737 7213.
About Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations
Per°Form Open Academy of Arts and Activations (POA) returns for its third and last iteration in February 2025. It is a live gathering of eminent thought leaders in the arts in-conversation on trends, negotiations and directions in their respective fields, indigenous artists from Nepal in public engagement through gatherings, dialogue and workshops, and in-studio engagement and ideation of dance in exhibition settings
With a 22-day programming, this year's POA expands its range beyond previous iterations with The Mentor Series, Opening Studio, and Closing Studio.