Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh

Who is Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh?

Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh is a choreographer and director of Le Phare, Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute-Normandie.

Ballet trained at the Conservatory in Tours, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh, joined the Merce Cunningham School in New York in 1987. Upon her return to France she danced for François Raffinot from 1991 until 1996. In 1997, she found the Sui Generis Company in Le Havre, which has been in residency in Saint-Brieuc, Brittany at La Passerelle — Scène Nationale and in Rennes, Brittany at Le Triangle — Plateau pour la danse. Alcoba evokes love relationships, Anthume ou la sensation du membre fantôme is about the theme of absence. Attracted by neurologist Antonio R. Damasio’s research she creates Texture/solo on the lack of emotions, followed by Texture/Composite thanks to a Villa Medicis Hors-les murs grant. In 2001, Sagen comes from her work on schizophrenia inspired by writings by Jean Noury. From 2003, several performances belong to a more minimalist cycle about repetition and variation : Décompositions, CROISéES, White Light are shaping the themes of time, memory and recollection. Finally, ici/Per.For, a solo piece, in collaboration with composer Zeena Parkins, closes this cycle.