Emmanuelle Huynh
Nuée
© Marc Domage ©
© Marc Domage ©
© Marc Domage ©
Concept and performed by, Emmanuelle Huynh
Dramaturgy and texts, Gilles Amalvi
Lighting and stage design, Caty Olive
Music, Pierre-Yves Macé
Artistic collaboration, Jennifer Lacey, and Katerina Andreou
Costumes, Thierry Grapotte
Choreographic and vocal resources, Florence Casanave, Nuno Bizarro, Ezra and Jean-Luc Chirpaz
Flute recording, Cédric Jullion
Sound and voice recording in Vietnam, Brice Godard, and Christophe Bachelerie
Voices, Hanh Nguyen, Huong Nguyen, Ly Nguyen, andNguyễn Thuận Hải
A coproduction by Maison de la musique de Nanterre and Festival d’Automne
à Paris. This show is produced in association with Maison de la musique de Nanterre and Festival d’Automne.
A production by Plateforme Múa
A coproduction by Théâtre de Nîmes – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création – danse contemporaine ; Équinoxe – Scène Nationale de Châteauroux ; Théâtre National de Bretagne (Rennes) ; Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy ; Maison de la musique de Nanterre – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création – pour la musique ; ICI - Centre chorégraphique national Montpellier – Occitanie / Pyrénées Méditerranée as part of its Accueil Studio ; Théâtre Garonne – scène européenne (Toulouse) ; CCN2 – Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble as part of its studio programme ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
In association with Maison de la musique de Nanterre – Scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création – pour la musique ; and Festival d’Automne à Paris
With support from Fondation Thalie in Brussels, Région des Pays de la Loire as part of an aid for new work, FRAC Franche-Comté, and Institut français in Vietnam as part of the Villa Saigon residency programme.
Made possible thanks to the availability of rehearsal space by Théâtre + Cinéma, scène nationale de Narbonne, Théâtre Molière Sète, and scène nationale archipel de Thau
Thanks to Compagnie Prana – Brigitte Chataignier
With support from Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
Twenty five years after Múa, an inaugural piece operating at the frontiers of darkness, Emmanuelle Huynh returns to her relationship with Vietnam in a solo in which lighting, music, language and the body dialogue with each other in order to formulate a memorial, intimate landscape, traversed by a multiple address.
Starting with images and questions revolving around the name of her father (Huynh Thanh Vân, Blue cloud), Emmanuelle Huynh leads an inquiry, in search of the lines of force which structure her body as a dancer. Between Vietnam and France, she traces out a fine contour that she journeys along, seeking, along the way, to understand the various threads of thought, anchor points, and knots – whilst addressing her gestures to the multitude of voices and bodies of which she is constituted. In this way, Nuée draws out a map in which energies and reminiscences circulate freely, and in which sentences are articulated – in the mouth, limbs and skin. At the junction between the body and the stage, a hybrid territory springs into existence – similar to the “dépays” of which Chris Marker was so fond. Sculpted by light and fog, Emmanuelle Huynh's body effectuates a compression of states, and symbols, in the form of physical ideograms mixed together by the memory. Appropriating the concept of « destinerrance », elaborated by Jacques Derrida, in order to describe the uncertain destination of all forms of address, she disperses traces, transmits signs, and scatters an « image of self» in an archipelago of othernesses.