Since February 2020, Emmanuelle Huynh has been developing a cycle of projects around trees as witnesses of time. This cycle, which has already taken place in Vietnam, Semnoz and Puglia, is now making a stopover in Concarneau, more precisely on the hill of the Petit Château de la Ville Close, where the choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and the composer Christian Sebille have spent several days in residence. The result is a dance-music duet in situ, inspired by the place, its landscapes but also by meetings with naturalists of the agglomeration. The dance, the text and the sound creation transform and inhabit the space, invoking what the trees have witnessed.

"What unites us is the question of nature on two different axes: nature as a witness to history in time immemorial, and landscape as a space of perception (interior and exterior). By dancing with trees in scattered locations, Emmanuelle Huynh invokes what the trees have witnessed: to embrace a tree is to embrace time.
Christian Sebille dresses the landscape in sound, which is transformed, inhabited by otherworldliness. A metamorphosis of space. Where dance addresses time, music seizes space.
- Emmanuelle Huynh and Christian Sebille

Mentions
Biography(s)
Embracing a tree, embracing time
Emmanuelle Huynh and Christian Sebille
Performance

DURATION
40' approx.

Distribution

Emmanuelle Huynh
conception, choreography & interpretation

Christian Sebille
conception, music & interpretation

Amelia Serrano
administration and development

Elodie Richard
production, distribution and communication

On tour

2023
June 18 & 27 | Latitudes Contemporaines Festival, Couvent des Dominicains, Lille (59)
July 8& 9 | Domaine de la Garenne Lemot, Gétigné (44)

2022
October 1 | As part of LumiNuit, INSEAMM Beaux-Arts de Marseille & Conservatoire Pierre Barbizet, Marseille
September 28 | Pont de Gras (44)
September 24 | Butte du Petit Château, Ville close (29)