Son[i]a #149
Xavier Le Roy
Xavier Le Roy has a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, but he has worked as a dancer an choreographer since 1991. He has been a member of several companies and has worked with choreographers such as erome Bel, Yvonne Rainer o Eszter Salamon. His solo works “Self Unfinished” (1998) and “Product of Circumstances” (1999) opened up new visions for dance by challenging the limits of academic discourse on the body and choreographic art. Since then, his works have subverted traditional notions of authorship and the creative process, as well as altering the roles of spectator and performer, and blur the boundaries between the museum and the theartrical space.
SON[I]A talks to Xavier Le Roy about some of his choreographies and working processes.
David Levine
David Levine discusses the historical precedents of what he calls "infiltrations" in everyday life, such as Adrian Piper's "The Mythic Being", Vito Acconci's "Following Piece", and Lynn Hershman Leeson's "Roberta Breitmore". Almost an hour chatting about reality and fiction, representation, invisibility, loops, and disappearances of all kinds.
Deleted scenes
We dig up some unreleased fragments of the interview with Yvonne Rainer that we were unable to include the first time around.
André Lepecki
André Lepecki talks about the chronopolitics of disappearance, dance, Louis XIV, the acquisition of choreography, testimonial power, object-oriented ontologies, choreopolicing, the writing of movement, and selfies.
Boris Charmatz
Dance interpreter, choreographer, thinker, writer, teacher and curator Boris Charmatz reflects on how to address power structures within the artistic field. He also talks about polisemy, collectivity, communities and anti-communities, radical pedagogy, dissent, the Musée de la danse, the complex and inexhaustible relationship between dance and history, working inside gestures, and the beauty of older people skateboarding.
Yvonne Rainer
Yvonne Rainer talks about the passing of time, the transferability of dance, training as legacy and the body’s filmic decay. About tenacity, physicality, and influences. And about the turns, leaps, and tumbles of a multifaceted career spanning more than half a century.