Emmanuelle Huynh

Emmanuelle Huynh is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher. She explores the relationship between literature, music, light, the Japanese floral art ikebana, and architecture. Her works include Múa (1995), A Vida Enorme (2002), Cribles (2009), TÔZAI ! (2014), Formation (2017), Nuée (2021), Kraanerg (2022) and several city portraits with plastic artist Jocelyn Cottencin. Director of the CNDC in Angers from 2004 to 2012 she currently heads the workshop at the Paris School of Art (Beaux-Arts de Paris). Emmanuelle Huynh’s work is backed by Plateforme Múa, subsidised by Drac Pays de la Loire – the French Ministry of Culture, and the Loire-Atlantique and Saint-Nazaire councils. She was an associate artist at the state subsidised Théâtre de Nîmes from 2018 to 2021.

“I will be sharing how I put together my solo Nuée in 2021, following the death of my father Huynh thanh Van, Nuage Bleu. I will include the solo dances that demonstrate the three ways of moving that shaped me as a dancer and choreographer: ballet, postmodern and butô. This map of movement is presented as a superposition of my father’s acupuncture practice – a vision of a body criss-crossed with paths of intensity.”
Emmanuelle Huynh