Emmanuelle Huynh
Dancer, choreographer, teacher

Emmanuelle Huynh studied dance and philosophy. Her work explores the relationship with music, literature, light, ikebana (Japanese floral art) and architecture. She has created, among others, Múa (1995), A Vida Enorme (2002), Cribles (2009), Shinbaï, le Vol de l'âme (2009), TÔZAI! (2014), Formation (2017)... Emmanuelle Huynh's work, carried by Plateforme Múa, is anchored in an enlarged vision of dance, producing knowledge and emotions that modify the vision that society may have of itself.
From 2004 to 2012, she directed the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Angers and redesigned the school, creating the "Essays" program, which offered a Master's degree in dance, creation and performance. From 2014 to 2016, Emmanuelle Huynh was an associate lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes. She was a lecturer at ENSA Nantes-Mauritius from 2016 to 2019. Since September 2016, Emmanuelle Huynh is Head of the Dance, Choreography, Performance Workshop at the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
In 2016, with Jocelyn Cottencin, they created A cab driver, an architect and the High Line (2016), a portrait of New York City through its architecture, its spaces, its inhabitants, composed of film portraits and a performance. They continue their collaboration and will produce a sensitive, filmed and danced portrait of the city of Saint-Nazaire, Nous venons de trop loin pour oublier qui nous sommes (2019). The portraits of São Paulo in Brazil and Houston in the United States are being created for 2022/2023.
She is an associate artist for three seasons from 2018 to 2021 at the Théâtre de Nîmes, scène conventionnée d'intérêt national - art et création - danse contemporaine, where she created the solo Nuée on March 18 and 19, 2021, which explores the question of the path, both artistic and personal.
In 2022, she puts in space and in body Kraanerg by Xenakis with Sylvain Cambreling and the Klangforum Wien, Caty Olive, light designer and four dancers, commissioned by the Wiener Festwochen of Vienna.