Composed in the spirit of choreographic haikus, in complicity with the dancers Violette Angé and Alexia Bigot, Routine.s marks for me the beginning of a new era, of a passage, born of a desire to convene my choreographic work with a page written in the intimacy of the studio.
This opens up a free space, clearing the field for an unfurling akin to that of a magician’s routine (a set of structured mouvements that brings a magic trick to pass).
Our mouvements, in this case, pass through our bodies’ memories of dance, channeled by our different experiences, as we’re all a decade apart in age.
At times, the associations between dance and music, and between one body and another, reveal a desire to retrace a “virgin” time, like a day that begins again, like a rising sun…as if, finally, living with restricted freedoms had led us to rediscover a taste for small things, and for letting go…a “rock-paper-scissors” ritual!
— Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
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 (69th 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.
More infos (site under construction).
Studio’s opening : November 2023 (in progress)
Free on reservation: adriana.falcone@ccnr.fr
Premiere : (in progress)
Choreography: Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Dancers: Violette Angé, Alexia Bigot, Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
Light installation and scenography: Anette Lenz
Musical creation: David Monceau
Costumes: Maeva Cunci
Technical manager: Benoît Duboc
Production : Pavillon-s
Coproduction : Le Phare CCN du Havre Normandie ; Centre chorégraphique national de Rillieux-la-Pape, direction Yuval PICK, dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-Studio (en cours)
Residencies : Les Franciscaines, théâtre municipal de Deauville ; Centré André Malraux, Rouen ; Dieppe Scène Nationale,…(en cours) Pavillon-s est subventionné par le Ministère de la culture – direction générale de la création artistique, la Région Normandie et la Ville de Rouen.
Photo © Anette Lenz