Emmanuelle Huynh & Christian Sebille
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- Couvent des Dominicains, Lille
- Médiathèque Jean Lévy, Lille
- 50 min
Embrasser un arbre, embrasser le temps
Trees are witnesses to time, to History, to our many stories … For Latitudes Contemporaines, the Lillois trees at the Convent of the Dominicans and the garden of the Jean Levy Media Library, the choreographer Emmanuelle Huynh and the composer Christian Sebille find the starting point for their creative dialogue.
The project began in 2020: Emmanuelle Huynh was dancing alongside the flame trees of Ho-Chi-Minh City, trees which were singular, mute witnesses to her father’s journey traveling from Vietnam to France, so many decades earlier. She later encountered other trees: conifers, olive trees … Collaborating with Christian Sebille, she created a dance-music duo in situ, performed in each area, after the artists spent days getting to know the trees and the landscape, and also interacting with specialists working with local vegetation. Dancing among the trees in different areas, Emmanuelle Huynh invokes that what the trees have apparently witnessed. Christian Sebille changes the landscape with sound which transforms it, filling it with sounds from somewhere else, creating a dual metamorphosis of the space.
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Presence of spoken texts in French
Biography(s)
Emmanuelle Huynh is a dancer, choreographer and teacher. His work explores the relationship with literature, music, light, ikebana (Japanese floral art) and architecture. Among others, she created Múa (1995), A Vida Enorme (2002), Cribles (2009), TÔZAI!… (2014) , Formation (2017), Nuée (2021), Kraanerg (2022) as well as several city portraits with visual artist Jocelyn Cottencin. From 2004 to 2012, she headed the CNDC in Angers and since 2016, she has been Head of Atelier at the Beaux-Arts in Paris. From 2018 to 2021, she was an associate artist at the Théâtre de Nîmes, a national interest convention stage – art and creation – contemporary dance.
Christian Sebille is a composer and artistic director of 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 where the sounds are captured is linked to the place where they are broadcast in a space compression ratio (reduction of the broadcast space compared to the capture space) and temporal reduction (ratio of the capture time/the broadcast time). In addition, he works on concrete sound and on the ability of the material to be its own diffuser (the instrument object). The radiation of the material and the movement of the (sound) object play on each other.
Credits
Conception, choreography & interpretation Emmanuelle Huynh
Design, music & interpretation Christian Sebille
Administration & development Amelia Serrano
Production, diffusion & communication Elodie Richard
Production Platform Múa
Co-production Danse à tous les étages – scène de territoire pour la danse; GMEM – CNCM de Marseille; Athénor, scène nomade – CNCM de Saint-Nazaire
Support French Institute in Vietnam – Villa Saigon; Embassy of France in Italy; XFarm in San Vito dei Normanni – Italy
Thanks to Carole Cosquer, Nathalie Delliouet, Catherine Chebahi, Yannick Le Géles and Alexandre Roccoli.
