Trees bear witness to time, history and stories... For Latitudes Contemporaines, choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and composer Christian Sebille will enter into dialogue with the trees of Lille's Couvent des Dominicains and the garden of the Médiathèque Jean Levy.

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
Sun. June 18 -- Tue. June 27, 2023 Festival Latitudes contemporaines (59)

DURATION
40' approx.

RATE
Free

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)