Bolzano Danza 2026 - Simon Le Borgne

Ad Libitum

One dancer. One musician. No script. Fifty minutes of something unpredictable. Ad Libitum — Latin for "at one's pleasure" — is a performance about the desire to create, embody, step outside oneself and expand beyond one's own limits.

Simon Le Borgne and Ulysse Zangs drew inspiration from classical images — paintings, statues, photographs and media imagery — and from classical and contemporary music to portray a being in transformation. What emerges is a choreographic and musical dialogue in real time, built on mutual listening. Zangs moves through the space activating percussion, voice, synthesiser and electric guitar. Le Borgne responds, takes the initiative, dissolves. The sound at times disappears entirely, leaving only breath and footsteps — then surges back. At the end, the rhythm of the drums merges with electronic sounds and overlaps the heartbeat of the audience and the breath of the artists, who come together in an intense embrace.

The Chiostro dei Domenicani — a thirteenth-century Dominican cloister — provides a setting that makes the intimacy of this work even more charged.

A performance of great emotional intensity, in which the audience does not participate actively but becomes complicit in the performers' presence — in a subtle play that can provoke surprise, amusement, unease or curiosity.

Simon Le Borgne began his training at the Paris Opera Ballet School in 2005 and joined the company in 2014. Since 2023 he has been a member of Tanztheater Wuppertal, where he has worked with Boris Charmatz and performed works by Pina Bausch, including Café Müller.

Tickets:
Full price € 12
Under 30 € 10
Under 12 € 5

Tickets are available online or at the box office of the Teatro Comunale di Bolzano.