unedansecontinue, 2025

Creation in November, 4th & 5th 2025 at Cndc Angers.

A work is sometimes born embedded in another: a path emerged in a dance transforms, finds resolution in the one that follows. The genealogy of unedansecontinue resides in Wiener Festwochen's 2022 commission to work with Xenakis' Kraanerg score. Emmanuelle Huynh plunged – as Xenakis himself did to compose his music – into the writing of her past pieces (1995/2021), to extract fragments whose montage impacts with the musical construction.

What continues in dance – what is affirmed? What evolves, grows, perseveres? But also, what is it that holds back, reserves (itself), hides? From repetitions to ruptures, from insistence to reserve, a writing is revealed – its inventions, retakes, motifs, obsessions, deviations, emergences, disappearances, searchings, singularities. Within this discontinuous continuity – in the arrangement and disorder of signs – unedansecontinue seeks a thread that aggregates intensities: an edge by which the complexity of the present can be grasped. Accompanied by the loops and layers of the composer ErikM, the films produced by the light of Caty Olive, the playwright Gilles Amalvi, the collaborating dancer Catherine Legrand, and 5 dancers faithful to the work, Emmanuelle Huynh remobilizes cycles of movement and choreographic situations in order to extract a condensation of states that simultaneously indicate an archeology and a becoming: a geological body, where each stratum testifies of an upheaval, a disturbance in the field of reality.

From Múa (1995) to Nuée (2021) – two soli that demarcate an inner journey, where dance negotiates the test of doubt, of darkness – through to the work Augures (2012), whose motif explores the movements of falling, the choreographic work of Emmanuelle Huynh is inscribed in a back and forth movement between the questioning of dance forms and their connection to the outside. Crossed by the noise of the world, unedansecontinue falls, gets back up

Interrogating reminiscences, dissecting repetitions, alliterations, unedansecontinue explores the unconsciousness of gesture: this meticulous work of interpretation reveals a body whose parts support each other, respond to each other, arrange themselves to form a singular being whose nature we do not yet understand; a stratified, plural body, melded in the history, insinuating gestures to come – a new existence to be seized by inventing it.

Gilles Amalvi

Distribution / Credits

Conception, choreography & artistic direction Emmanuelle Huynh

Musical conception ErikM

Lights, videos & scenography Caty Olive

Choreographic collaboration Catherine Legrand

Dramaturgy Gilles Amalvi

Costumes: Thierry Grapotte

Interprétation Jérôme Andrieu, Lucie Collardeau, Elodie Cottet, Vera Gorbatcheva &Théo Le Bruman

Technical director Maël Teillant

Administration & development Amelia Serrano

Production, tour manager & communication Elodie Richard

Creation the November, 4th & 5th 2025 at Cndc Angers

Estimated time: 1' to 1'15

Production Plateforme Múa

Coproduction

With the dispositive Accueil-Studio: Cndc Angers | CCN - Ballet de Lorraine | La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie

Le Centre national de la danse

With the support of:

Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels | LoLuPiA | Nathalie Guiot, Fondation Thalie as sponsorships

GMEM – CNCM de Marseille

Montpellier Danse for a residency at Agora, cité internationale de la danse, with the support of Fondation BNP Paribas

Plateforme Múa is supported by l’Etat – Direction régionale des affaires culturelles (DRAC) des Pays de la Loire, by le Département de Loire-Atlantique and la Ville de Saint-Nazaire.