Scarlet Yu, Alice Heyward, Zeina Hanna, Lee Mun Wai, Elena Rose Light, Cary Shiu, Jäckie Rydz, Alexandre Achour, Connor Scott, Yurika S. Yamamoto, Ying TingAn, Alex Viteri Arturo, Denise Lim, Xdzunúm Danae Trejo, annu mensen

Production: Le Kwatt
Coproduction: Festival D’automne Paris; Radial System, Berlin; Taipei Performing Arts Center

Temporary Title, 2026 is a rehearsal for spaces that visitors enter and leave freely, staying for as long as they choose. The performers move through a series of metamorphoses, transforming both their own presence and the space around them, and creating different ways of being together. The choreography unfolds a striking situation, in which movement, sculpture, matter, and noises enhance that living presences are sharing the room.

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 artist-in-residence at Berlin’s Podewil (1996 – 2003), associate artist at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier (2007 – 2008), artist-in-residence 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 and by questions about the notion of movement and what it produces. They are guided by the desire to alter our understanding of dichotomies such as the human and the non-human, subject and object, passive and active, normal and abnormal among others, and to multiply our perspectives.

His latest works, such as: Still (life) in Taipei (2022), Still in Hong Kong (2021), Still Untitled (2017), For the Unfaithful Replica (2016) and Temporary Title (2015), in collaboration with Scarlet Yu, followed works such as Untitled (2012) and Rétrospective (2012 – ) which use and investigate time, space as well as the relationships between the public and live artworks made possible by exhibitions, museums and other public spaces.

With the support of the KINDL and the Île-de-France Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC)