French choreographer Xavier Le Roy will premiere a new work, Temporary Title, 2026, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris from 20 to 22 November, as part of this year's Festival d'Automne. Presented in the museum's Rotonde, the piece runs continuously from 2pm to 8pm each day, with visitors free to enter, leave and return as they please.

The work is a new creation rather than a revival of Le Roy's Temporary Title, 2015, which premiered in Sydney and was later shown at the Centre Pompidou in 2016. Where the earlier version used naked performers, the 2026 piece works with clothed bodies, exploring camouflage and the way figures dissolve into their surroundings. Fifteen performers move through the open, circular space of the Rotonde, shifting between human and animal-like forms while visitors decide for themselves how long to stay and watch. The cast includes long-time collaborator Scarlet YuMei alongside Alice Heyward, Zeina Hanna and twelve other performers.

Le Roy, a former molecular biologist who has worked as a dancer and choreographer since the early 1990s, has long treated the exhibition format as a stage, letting audiences encounter choreography outside the conventions of a theatre seat and a fixed running time. Temporary Title, 2026 keeps that open structure, turning the museum visit itself into the frame for the performance.

The piece is produced by Le Kwatt in coproduction with the Festival d'Automne, Radial System in Berlin and the Taipei Performing Arts Center, with support from the Ile-de-France regional cultural directorate and KINDL in Berlin. Booking is available through the Palais de Tokyo.