As part of the Extension Sauvage Festival #15 (35).

Trees bear witness to time, history, and stories… For the Extension sauvage Festival #15, choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and composer Christian Sebille will engage in a dialogue with the trees of the Château de Combourg.

Since February 2020, Emmanuelle Huynh has been rolling out a cycle of projects based on trees as witnesses of time. This cycle, which has already taken place in Vietnam, Semnoz and Puglia, is now making a stopover in Lille, where choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and composer Christian Sebille spent several days in residence. The result is an in situ dance-music duet, inspired by the place, its landscapes and encounters with local naturalists. Dance, text and sound 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)
Location
Embracing a tree, embracing time
Emmanuelle Huynh and Christian Sebille
Performance
Sat, June 20, 2026 | 3:00 p.m. Combourg Castle, Combourg (35)

DURATION
50 min. approx.

Distribution

Emmanuelle Huynh
conception, choreography & interpretation

Christian Sebille
conception, music & interpretation

Amelia Serrano
administration and development

Elodie Richard
production, distribution and communication

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