Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was "Associated Artist" at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France. In 2010 Le Roy was an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA). Through his solo works such as "Self Unfinished" (1998) and "Product of Circumstances" (1999), he has opened new perspectives for dance and his individual approach has radicalised academic discourse about the body and choreographic art. Le Roy develops his work like a researcher, while simultaneously focusing on the relationships between process and product and his own involvement in the process. He regularly initiates projects to question modes of production, collaboration and conditions of group work with projects such as "E.X.T.E.N.S.I.O.N.S." (1999-2000), "Project" (2003), and "6 Months 1 Location" (2008). His latest works, such as the solos "Le Sacre du Printemps" (2007) and "Product of Other Circumstances" (2009), as well as the group piece "low pieces" (2010-2011), explore more explicitly diverse modes of relationships between spectators and performers.