Múa

In 1995, Emmanuelle Huynh created the solo Múa, meaning dance in Vietnamese: an inner journey to the edge of darkness, which reveals a body torn between light and shadow, interiority and exteriority, Vietnam and France. For twenty years, Emmanuelle Huynh has continued to perform this piece which serves as her touchstone – that which enables her to link past and present and to question where she stands. Dissolving the duality between movement and immobility, the visible and the invisible, Múa shapes perception, exposing the internal journey of sensations within an organism seeking a form. Sculpted by shadow, massaged by sound, Emmanuelle Huynh’s imperceptible silhouette exists at the edge of consciousness, embodying the zones of uncertainty of an identity that reinvents itself through movement. Drawing the spectator into a borderline sensory and perceptual experience, where each gesture redefines the threshold of discernment, she composes a phenomenology of appearance.