Le Pli is inspired by the book The Fold, Leibniz and the Baroque by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. The abstract esthetic of 17th-century philosophy and architecture, as captured in Deleuze's observations, is transposed into dance for this piece.

Music and choreography focus on the gradual ornamentation of a regular framework, like a spider's thread that slowly becomes an architectural work. This ornamenting process starts, reverses and restarts continuously. Thus the piece breathes: it folds, then unfolds; winds, then unwinds in constant transition between emptiness and extravagance.