Nuée, 2021

The nimbus is a form and a body - gaseous, solid, liquid: a waterlogged atmospheric formation - a retention and an overflow; a pressure zone that can charge itself with electricity, melt into rain, burst into a thunderstorm. Water, electricity, forms, accumulation, disappearance: the nimbus is a body, is a name, a heritage and a question. From the succession of images, of genealogies, of enigmas enshrouded by this name (that of her father, Huynh Thanh Vân, Blue Cloud), a link between two worlds - Vietnam and France - Emmanuelle Huynh has conducted an inquiry process, at once towards her interior and the exterior: an inquiry made up of points, dots, following a path as invisible and sinuous as that of acupuncture meridians - in search of the lines of force that structure her dancer's body.

On one side, Vietnam, readable in fragments, like a language to decipher - on her face, her feet, inscribed in her first name, Thanh Loãn, Blue Bird: country and landscape rediscovered on the occasion of the inaugural piece, Mùa, in 1995. On the side, France, where she was born and studied philosophy and dance. Between the two, a fine frontier that she explores, this time seeking to lift the veil rather than let obscurity settle in; understanding the pathways, anchor points, addresses. Indeed, if Mùa were a piece that probed darkness from within, Nimbus formulates an address, as a way of returning something of this itinerary to those who have passed through or inhabited her body. A dance to ask questions, to attempt fragments of answers on her very body, to weave ties: between the foot, the country, the father, the skin; between the series of gestures, of phrases - learned from Trisha Brown, Odile Duboc, shared with Akira Kasai or Boris Charmatz.

Nimbus thus draws a map in which circulate energies, forms, reminiscences, raw or languid desires; where phrases are articulated - in the mouth, in the limbs, in the skin. In the manner of those Vietnamese names, written in an illegible way to deceive evil spirits, Emmanuelle Huynh's body performs a compression of states and symbols, like so many physical ideograms kneaded by memory. Making its own the concept of "destinerrance", developed by Jacques Derrida to describe the uncertain destination of any address - its drift from an initial recipient to a community of presences encountered along the way - it disperses traces, transmits signs, scatters a certain “Self-image” in an archipelago of otherness.

Gilles Amalvi

NUEE - TEASER from Plateforme Mùa on Vimeo.

Distribution / Credits

SOLO

Conception, choreography & interpretation
Emmanuelle Huynh

Dramaturgy & Texts
Gilles Amalvi

Lights & Scenography
Caty Olive

Music
Pierre-Yves Macé

Artistic Collaboration
Jennifer Lacey & Katerina Andreou

Costumes
Thierry Grapotte

Choreographic & vocal resources
Florence Casanave, Nuno Bizarro, Ezra & Jean-Luc Chirpaz

Resources in astrophysics
Thierry Foglizzo

Recorded flute
Cédric Jullion

Sound and voice recording in Vietnam
Brice Godard & Christophe Bachelerie

Voices
Hanh Nguyen, Huong Nguyen, Ly Nguyen & Nguyá»…n Thuáºn Háº£i

Technical managment
Maël Teillant

Administration & developpement
Amelia Serrano

Production, diffusion & communication
Elodie Richard

Duration : 60'

Production
Plateforme Múa

Coproduction

Théâtre de Nîmes, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national – art et création – danse contemporaine (Emmanuelle Huynh is associated artist during three seasons from 2018 to 2021)

Équinoxe - Scène nationale de Châteauroux

Théâtre National de Bretagne

Bonlieu Scène nationale Annecy

Maison de la musique de Nanterre, scène conventionnée d’intérêt national

Festival d'Automne à Paris

ICI — centre chorégraphique national Montpellier – Occitanie in the framework of the « Host Studio »

Théâtre Garonne – Scène Européenne

CCN2- Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble in the framework of the « Host Studio »

With the support

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels

Thalie Fundation in Bruxelles

Région des Pays de la Loire, in the framwork of the creation support fund

FRAC Franche-Comté

French Institute in Vietnam, in the framework of the artistic residence in Villa Saigon

For the use of the studio

Théâtre + Cinéma, Scène nationale Grand Narbonne

Théâtre Molière Sète, Scène nationale archipel de Thau

Thanks to Prana Compagny Brigitte Chataignier

Múa platform, is supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication - Regional Department of Cultural Affairs of Pays de la Loire, by the department of Loire-Atlantique as well as the city of Saint-Nazaire