title : Xavier Le Roy (2000)

a performance by : Jérôme Bel
conception : Xavier Le Roy
music : Bernard Herrmann
production manager : In situ productions
creation : Ghent (Belgium), on April 26th 2000, at the Kopergietery
production : Time Festival (Ghent) and TanzWerkstatt, Podewil (Berlin)
thanks to : Silke Becker, Jérôme Bel, Katrin Busching, Rebecca Lee, Pascale Paoli, Petra Roggel, Frédéric Seguette, Maximilian Stelz, Nobert Strache, Tino Sehgal, Claudia Triozzi

duration : 40 minutes

with the support of Direction régionale des affaires culturelles d'Ile-de-France - French Ministry for Culture and Communication, by the Institut Français - French Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Senatsverwaltung für Wissenschaft, and Forschung und Kultur (Berlin)
website : www.jeromebel.fr

Le dernier spectacle, in 1998, was supposed to have marked his farewell to the world of dance after just three personal creations. It was meant to have been his last piece, but no such doing. Yet how is one to continue, when one has chosen pulling out, programmatically speaking, as the theme of the show, which ended up leaving the choreography entirely up to the spectator?

Gerald Siegmund