Literally meaning “at will” or “to one’s heart’s content”, Ad Libitum is a piece about the (renewed or dwindling) desire to create, to embody, to perform, to step outside oneself, to expand. The idea of moulting and the term “decontenting ” are the common threads running through this creation, expressing both the need to change one’s skin, to empty oneself of substance, and the need to embody oneself, to fill one’s container.
Questioning the relationship we maintain with our practices and influences, we construct 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: the breath of a respiration, the rhythm of a heartbeat, we summon the empathy necessary to experience the other in all their humanity. We want to make ourselves malleable and vulnerable to a variety of forms and contents, to create a performance with a cyclical character: decomposition gives way to blossoming, the fall of a body allows a new spurt to emerge.
— Simon Leborgne
Simon Le Borgne
Simon Le Borgne is a dancer and choreographer based in Paris. He began his training at the Opera de Paris school in 2005 and joined the company in 2014. He is promoted to subject in November 2019. He performs pieces by Maguy Marin, Merce Cunningham, Jiri Kylian, Ohad Naharin and Hofesh Schechter, and takes part in the creations of Crystal Pite's Season's Canon and Body and Soul, Alexander Ekman's Play, Ivan Perez's The Male Dancer, Sharon Eyal's Faunes and Alan Lucien Oyen's Cri de Coeur. In parallel, he has been developing creative projects since 2018. In collaboration with Marion Barbeau, he created La Fille du Fort, an In-situ piece created for the Fort d'Aubervilliers. Since 2021, he has been working with Yohana Benattar and Hanga Toth on the Nos Gestes, Nos Soins project, and the development of a documentary performance based on the care gestures of people with chronic illnesses or disabilities. For the 22/23 season, he is a guest artist with the Gymnase CDCN for its creation project Mue.
Studio’s opening: thursday, february 8, 2024 at 7:30pm
At the CCNR dance studio, Rillieux-la-Pape
Free on reservation : adriana.falcone@ccnr.fr
→ Simon Le Borgne will host the Sentir La Fibre workshop from Monday, February 5, 2024
Premieres: April 2 + 3, 2024 at Espace Pasolini, Valenciennes, as part of Le Grand Bain Festival
Choreography & interpretation: Simon Le Borgne
Composition & interpretation: Ulysse Zangs
Production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix Hauts de France
Coproductions: CCN de Créteil et du Val de Marne, CCN de Caen, CCNR/Yuval Pick
Sponsor: Les Partageurs
Residences: La Briqueterie CDCN Val de Marne
Photo © David Le Borgne