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 the park of the Domaine de la Garenne Lemot, 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 site, 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
Acknowledgements
Carole Cosquer, Nathalie Delliouet, Catherine Chebahi, Yannick Le Géles and Alexandre Roccoli.
Production
Plateforme Múa
Co-productions
Danse à tous les étages - scène de territoire pour la danse, GMEM, Athénor, scène nomade - CNCM de Saint-Nazaire
Support
Institut français au Vietnam - Villa Saïgon, Ambassade de France en Italie, XFarm à San Vito dei Normanni - Italie, Bonlieu - Scène nationale d'Annecy, Festival Entre cour et jardins - Le Dancing CDCN de Dijon
Plateforme Múa is supported by the DRAC Pays de la Loire - Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, by the Département de Loire-Atlantique and the city of Saint-Nazaire.
Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of the GMEM in Marseille. He works on the realization of sound installations in situ, in particular within the framework of a series entitled Miniatures. The place of sound capture is linked to the place of its diffusion in a ratio of space compression (reduction of the diffusion space in relation to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of capture time / diffusion time). Moreover, he works on the concrete sound and on the capacity of the material to be in itself its own diffuser (the instrumental object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the object (sound) play with each other.
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.
Domaine de la Garenne Lemot (44)
Avenue Xavier Rineau44190
Gétigné
DURATION
40' approx.
RATE
Free
Emmanuelle Huynh
conception, choreography & interpretation
Christian Sebille
conception, music & interpretation
Amelia Serrano
administration and development
Elodie Richard
production, distribution and communication
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)