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duration 55’
DASTE
via Daste e Spalenga 13
Bergamo
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3 shows* 40€
5 shows* 55€
Open (16 shows)* 150€ full price / 110€ reduced price
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Ad Libitum intertwines dance and live music in a dialogue on the desire for transformation. In a circular space, body and sound move through balance, fall and rebirth, questioning the relationship between form and identity. Between breath, listening and counterpoint, Simon Le Borgne and Ulysse Zangs create a performance that observes what happens when shedding one’s skin becomes a necessary gesture.
Followed by DTalk, a conversation with the company.
Performance supported by a network of 10 Italian festivals through PIDA (Programme International de Diffusion Artistique) – Institut Français
With the support of Fondazione Nuovi Mecenati – Fondazione franco-italiana di sostegno alla creazione contemporanea

Bio
Simon Le Borgne is a dancer and choreographer. He began his training at the Paris Opera 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 several pieces by Pina Bausch, including Café Müller. At the same time, he became a guest artist at the 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 freelance 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 composes soundtracks for dance, performances, installations and films, combining live improvisation and recorded productions. In 2024 he created the soundtracks 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 his own music, culminating in the release of his first solo project, Idle Hands Or, launched last autumn as an independent work (recorded and self-produced between 2022 and 2024).
CREDITS
Choreography: Simon Le Borgne
Composition: Ulysse Zangs
Performance: Simon Le Borgne, Ulysse Zangs
Lighting: Iannis Japiot
Artistic collaboration: Philomène Jander
Outside eyes: Émilie Leriche, David Le Borgne
Executive production: Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France.
Co-production: Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape – direzione Yuval Pick, nell’ambito del dispositivo Accueil-Studio; La Briqueterie CDCN Val-de-Marne; L’Espace Pasolini – Valenciennes; Compagnie SLB; Danse Dense, con accoglienza in residenza presso il Théâtre de Vanves – scena convenzionata di interesse nazionale / azione finanziata dalla Regione Île-de-France.
Patronage: Les Partageurs.
Support: DRAC Hauts-de-France – Ministero della Cultura; Festival De l’impertinence – Sète.