TOWARDS:2025 with Xavier le Roy (FR/DE) & Scarlet Yu (HK/DE)

About the Open Call

TOWARDS:2025 is a cycle of intensive workshops that include physical praxis, evening lectures, video screenings, and live performances. It’s the metaphor of aiming at something - to expose and engage ourselves in physical investigations and conceptual challenges that can foster creativity and encourage discoveries. TOWARDS:2025 sees pedagogy as a continuous intellectual provocation, an occasion for inspiration through paradoxes and awakenings and as a desire to overturn common sense and question what we have learned. TOWARDS:2025 offers the occasion to explore the work of renowned international artists Xavier le Roy and Scarlet Yu, gaining an insight into their practice and methodologies as well the philosophical and poetic worlds that trigger their creative research. This individual workshop, “Embodiments and exhibitions,” extends experiments developed for works like "Retrospective" and "Temporary Title, 2015," conceived for museum exhibitions. Participants will work on materials from these situations, exploring interpretive potential in spaces without architectural front or a 4th wall, and how visitor movement influences choreography. The workshop will cover 2 or 3 movement materials and specific modes of embodiment/incorporation, alternating roles of performer and spectator. A public showing/sharing at the end will present the work in an exhibition-like context. The workshop week includes a lecture sharing choreograph’s theoretic perspectives and/or an evening video screening, a performance “Monsters of Circumstances” by Xavier le Roy, and an informal showing.

What is Offered

The workshop includes physical praxis, evening lectures, video screenings, and live performances. Participants will explore the work of renowned international artists Xavier le Roy and Scarlet Yu, gaining insight into their practice and methodologies. The offer includes accommodation, workshop, lecture, performance by Xavier le Roy, and an informal showing of workshop work.

Requirements

Applicants must fill out the Google form, providing their name, mail address, phone number, nationality, age, a short CV with education and professional background, and a link to a video representing their work (with password if necessary). Participants are expected to engage in physical investigations and conceptual challenges.

How to Apply

For enrolments, please fill in the google form below. Submit a short CV with education and professional background, and one link to a video material that best represents your work (include password if protected).