Production:
Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix-Hauts-de-France
Premiere April 2024
For all ages
Durations:
55 minutes (long version)
30 minutes (short version)
Statement of intent
by Simon Le Borgne and Ulysse Zangs
Latin expression, literally meaning « in accordance with one’s wishes or until satiety », Ad Libitum is a piece about the desire – renewed or drying up – to create, to embody, to perform, to step outside oneself, to expand. The idea of moulting and the term «décontenancement» – meaning both «being taken aback» and «put out of one’s own container» – are the leading threads running through this creation, expressing one’s need to change one’s skin, to empty oneself of all substance, as well as the need to embody oneself, to fill one’s own container.
Questioning the relationship that we keep with our practice and influences, we build a choreographic and musical dialogue, between synchronicity and counterpoint. By focusing our attention on the energy that circulates between us, on what is specific to every human being: breathing, the rhythm of heartbeats, we summon the empathy needed to experience the other in all his or her humanity. We want to make ourselves malleable and vulnerable to a variety of forms and contents, in order to create a performance with a cyclical character: decomposition giving way to blossoming, the fall of a body allowing a new spurt of life.
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
Production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de‑France. Coproduction: Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape – direction Yuval Pick / 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 the Ile-de-France Region. Patronage: Les Partageurs. Support: DRAC Hauts-de-France – Ministère de la Culture, Festival De l’impertinence – Sète
25/26
14 June 2025
Couvent des Dominicains, Lille
– Latitudes Contemporaines
13 and 14 september 2025
Les SUBS, Lyon
17 september 2025
Biennale de la danse, Lyon
27 september 2025
Salle des fêtes, Tressin
during les Belles Sorties de la Métropole Européenne de Lille
2 october 2025
Saint Gaudens – La Place de la Danse CDCN
4 october 2026
Toulouse -La Place de la Dance CDCN
from 11 to 24 march 2026
Tour
during Au fil du Tarn organized by Scène Nationale Albi-Tarn
26 march 2026
SEW cultural venue(s) – Morlaix
Previous dates
24/25
27 September 2024
La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne – Vitry-sur-Seine
during excentriques festival
9 October 2024
Le Triangle / La Cité de la danse – Rennes
during La Grande Scène organized by Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes network
3 and 4 December 2024
Théâtre de Vanves
during Danse Dense #lefestival
19 april 2025
Salle des fêtes, Bousbecque
during les Belles Sorties de la Métropole Européenne de Lille
21 april 2025
Base de loisirs de Verlinghem
during les Belles Sorties de la Métropole Européenne de Lille
23/24
24 March 2024
premiere at Le Fresnoy – Tourcoing
during Le Grand Bain festival
25 March 2024
Palais des Beaux-Arts – Lille
during Le Grand Bain festival
2 and 3 April 2024
premiere at Espace Pasolini – Valenciennes
during Le Grand Bain festival
4 April 2024
Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix
during Le Grand Bain festival
25 April 2024
Palma de Majorque (Spain)
during Palma Dansa festival
8 June 2024
La Maison Danse CDCN – Uzès Gard Occitanie
during La Maison Danse festival
7 September 2024
La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne – Vitry-sur-Seine
during excentriques festival
9 October 2024
Le Triangle / La Cité de la danse – Rennes
during La Grande Scène organized by Les Petites Scènes Ouvertes network
3 and 4 December 2024
Théâtre de Vanves
during Danse Dense #lefestival
25 april 2024
Palma de Majorque (Espagne)
dans le cadre du festival Palma Dansa
8 june 2024
La Maison Danse CDCN – Uzès Gard Occitanie
dans le cadre du festival La Maison Danse
artistic team
Simon Le Borgne is a dancer and choreographer. He began his training at Paris Opéra school in 2005 and joined the company in 2014. He has performed pieces by Maguy Marin, Merce Cunningham, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin and Hofesh Schechter and participated in the creations of 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. Since 2021, he has been working with Yohana Benattar and Hanga Toth on the Nos Gestes, Nos Soins project, developing a documentary performance based on the care actions of people with chronic illnesses or disabilities. From 2023, he joined Tanztheatre Wuppertal, where he worked with Boris Charmatz on his creation Liberté Cathédrale and performed in several pieces by Pina Bausch, inculding Café Müller. At the same time, he became a guest artist at Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts-de-France, which produced his piece Ad Libitum.
Ulysse Zangs is a French artist who develops his practice at the intersection of sound, movement and nature. As a dancer, he trained at the École de Danse de l’Opéra de Paris and then at the Palucca Hochschule für Tanz, before joining the Dresden Frankfurt Dance Company, where he danced until 2019. Now a freealance artist, he works with renowned choreographers and directors such as Benjamin Millepied, Philippe Découflé, Dimitri Chamblas, Ersan Mondtag, Simon Le Borgne and Chris Fargeot, among others. As a musician, he composed soundtracks for dance, performances, intallations and films, combining live imporvisation and recorded productions. In 2024, he created the soudntracks for Ad Libitum by Simon Le Borgne, 3:33 In my Room through the window by Chris Fargeot, Grace by Benjamin Millepied and Manhandle by Gustavo Gomes. Ulysse is also devoting more time to hiw own music, culminating in the release oh his first solo project, Idle Hands Or, launched last autumn as an independent work (recorded and self-produced between 2022 and 2024).
