The choreographer Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh explains how her creative choreographic process comes from specific detailed research and structures, which are reset for each new piece. The clear lines underlying all her work are nonetheless visible.
Research by the neurologist Antonio Damasio, about the importance of emotion – inspired her iconic early works Texture/solo and Texture/Composite. Sagen delves into the “anti”-psychiatry of Jean Oury, which deals with schizophrenia. Theses by Françoise Héritier on the masculine/ feminine inspired -transire- and -insight- (2010, 2013). The complex density of these themes facilitate and sharpen the exploration of the dancers’ bodies.
Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh is also interested in repetitive minimalism, notably in CROISéES, White light, Ici/Per.For – 2005, 2006, exploring play in Aboli Bibelot… Rebondi (2008), and exploring it further in Sprint (2013). She chose to create with important musical works by Zeena Parkins, Dusapin, Grisey; and also explores the visual arts. Her recent works are somewhat more theatrical: Tombouctou déjà-vu (Avignon, 2015), Belles et bois (2016), Cocagne (2018), La forêt de glace (the ice forest) (2020) and Attractions (2021).
Her exhaustive movement vocabulary is constantly challenging established ideas about meanings and senses.
Since the launch of her company in 1997, she has created over twenty pieces, which have notably been presented at the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, the Avignon festival (69^th edition) and Chaillot National theater for Dance, as well as in different countries and continents in Europe, Africa, North America, Asia,…
Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh has been the Director of Le Phare, Centre chorégraphique national of Le Havre Normandie from 2012 to 2021. She was the president of the french Nationel choreographic Centers from 2013 to 2017.
She has been appointed Chevalier de l’ordre des arts et des lettres in 2014.