Ad Libitum

Simon Le Borgne

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Live performance

Pass Latitudes
Couvent des Dominicains, Lille
55 minutes

Ad Libitum is a sensitive dialogue involving a dancer and a musician, exploring how someone changes his skin, how to disincarnate, perhaps in order to reincarnate himself elsewhere?

The dancer and choreographer Simon Le Borgne trained at the Paris Opéra, for whom he danced for eight years. Ulysse Zangs is a musician, composer and dancer. The two are long time friends and together are presenting their first duo work. The term Ad Libitum means to perform freely, as far as you can. It is a piece about the desire – renewed or disappearing – to create, to embody, to interpret, to step outside the self, to go beyond the limits. Using shapes and images which evoke and revoke gender norms, social class and power, the duo deconstructs these performances, leaving behind ambiguous, free and vulnerable bodies. Using the energy of the breath and the heartbeat, this cyclical piece blends dance and live drumming, exploring the idea of moulting as a pathway to transformation, emptying out the self, then being reborn.

→ From 2 May to 22 June at the Couvent des Dominicains, discover an exhibition by François Andes. On 14 June, the artist will be on hand from 2.30pm to chat with people wishing to visit the exhibition before attending the Ad Libitum show.

Accessibility infos :

High sound intensity

Biography(s)

SIMON LE BROGNE
Simon Le Borgne is a dancer and choreographer based in Paris. He began his training at the Opéra National de Paris dance school in 2005 before joining the company itself in 2014 and becoming a soloist in November 2019. He has performed in pieces by Maguy Marin, Merce Cunningham, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin and Hofesh Schechter and has taken part in Season’s Canon and Body and Soul by Crystal Pite, Play by Alexander Ekman, The Male Dancer by Ivan Perez, Faunes by Sharon Eyal and Cri de Coeur by Alan Lucien Oyen. In parallel, he has been developing his own creative projects since 2018. In collaboration with Marion Barbeau, he created La Fille du Fort, an in-situ piece developed for the Fort d’Aubervilliers. Since 2021, he has been working with Yohana Benattar and Hanga Toth on the project Nos Gestes, Nos Soins, and developing a documentary performance on gestures involved in caring for people with a chronic illness or disability. Since the 22/23 season he has been receiving support from Le Gymnase CDCN for Mue and Ad Libitum.

ULYSSE ZANG
Ulysse Zangs is an artist, composer, musician and dancer, developing an art form where sound and movement meet. He graduated from the dance school of the Opéra National de Paris and the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz before joining the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company in 2015, remaining there for four seasons. He has danced in pieces by Jacopo Godani, William Forsythe and Rafael Bonachela. As a composer and musician, he creates compositions for dance and started exploring his musical approach associated with movement more than a decade ago, collaborating with various artists such as Ersan Mondtag, Alt.Take, Gustavo Gomes, Michael Ostenrath and Simon Le Borgne.

Credits

Choreography : Simon Le Borgne
Musical composition : Ulysse Zangs
Performance : Simon Le Borgne, Ulysse Zangs
Light : Iannis Japiot
Outside views : Émilie Leriche, David Le Borgne, Philomène Jander
Delegate Production : Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de‑France
Coproduction : Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape – direction Yuval Pick dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio, La Briqueterie CDCN Val‑de‑Marne, L’Espace Pasolini – Valenciennes, Compagnie SLB, Danse Dense with a residency at Théâtre de Vanves – scène conventionnée d’intérêt national / action financed by par la Région Ile-de-France.
Patronage : Les Partageurs
Supported by : DRAC Hauts-de-France – Ministère de la Culture, Festival De l’impertinence – Sète