Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh

The  choreographer Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh explains how her creative  choreographic process comes from specific detailed research and  structures, which are reset for each new piece. The clear lines  underlying all her work are nonetheless visible.

Research by the neurologist Antonio Damasio, about the importance of emotion – inspired her iconic early works Texture/solo and Texture/Composite. Sagen  delves into the “anti”-psychiatry of Jean Oury, which deals with  schizophrenia. Theses by Françoise Héritier on the masculine/ feminine  inspired –transire- and –insight- (2010, 2013). The complex density of these themes facilitate and sharpen the exploration of the dancers’ bodies.

Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh is also interested in repetitive minimalism, notably in CROISÉES, White light, Ici/Per.For – 2005, 2006, exploring play in Aboli Bibelot… Rebondi (2008), and exploring it further in Sprint (2013).  She chose to create with important musical works by Zeena Parkins,  Dusapin, Grisey; and also explores the visual arts. Her recent works are  somewhat more theatrical: Tombouctou déjà-vu (Avignon, 2015), Belles et bois (2016), Cocagne (2018), La forêt de glace (the ice forest) (2020) and Attractions (2021).

Her exhaustive movement vocabulary is constantly challenging established ideas about meanings and senses.
Since  the launch of her company in 1997, she has created over twenty pieces,  which have notably been presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris,  the Avignon festival (69th edition) and Chaillot National  theater for Dance, as well as in different countries and continents in  Europe, Africa, North America, Asia…

Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh has been  the Director of Le Phare, Centre chorégraphique national of Le Havre  Normandie from 2012 to 2021. She was the president of the french  National choreographic Centers from 2013 to 2017.
She has been appointed Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in 2014.

Source : CCNR