Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh
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Emmanuelle Vo-Dinh is a French
dancer and a contemporary dance choreographer.
She studied classical dance in Tours, France before joining the Merce Cunningham School in New York
. Afterwards she danced for François Raffinot in Paris
and then in Le Havre
at the National Choreographic Center.
In 1997 she founded the Sui Generis Company.
She received a Villa-Médicis Hors les Murs grant in 1999. Thanks to it she pursued her work on emotions with Professor Damasio in the Neurology department in the University Hospital of Iowa City. This experience inspired the quartet "Texture/Composite" in 1999 for which she received the General Counsel of Seine-Saint-Denis Author’s Award at the internatiaonal dance festival in Bagnolet, nearby Paris, in 2000.
Since creating her company she has choreographed more than a dozen pieces. She has developped strong relationships with various artists such as French sculptor Laurent Pariente, French-Mexican author Frédéric-Yves Jeannet or American musician Zeena Parkins.
In 2011, she was invited by Christopher House, director and choreographer of the Toronto Dance Theatre, to create a new piece called "Vortex".
In July, she has been appointed by the French Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, the new director of the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute Normandie.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
dancer and a contemporary dance choreographer.
She studied classical dance in Tours, France before joining the Merce Cunningham School in New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
. Afterwards she danced for François Raffinot in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
and then in Le Havre
Le Havre
Le Havre is a city in the Seine-Maritime department of the Haute-Normandie region in France. It is situated in north-western France, on the right bank of the mouth of the river Seine on the English Channel. Le Havre is the most populous commune in the Haute-Normandie region, although the total...
at the National Choreographic Center.
In 1997 she founded the Sui Generis Company.
She received a Villa-Médicis Hors les Murs grant in 1999. Thanks to it she pursued her work on emotions with Professor Damasio in the Neurology department in the University Hospital of Iowa City. This experience inspired the quartet "Texture/Composite" in 1999 for which she received the General Counsel of Seine-Saint-Denis Author’s Award at the internatiaonal dance festival in Bagnolet, nearby Paris, in 2000.
Since creating her company she has choreographed more than a dozen pieces. She has developped strong relationships with various artists such as French sculptor Laurent Pariente, French-Mexican author Frédéric-Yves Jeannet or American musician Zeena Parkins.
In 2011, she was invited by Christopher House, director and choreographer of the Toronto Dance Theatre, to create a new piece called "Vortex".
In July, she has been appointed by the French Minister of Culture, Frédéric Mitterrand, the new director of the Centre Chorégraphique National du Havre Haute Normandie.
External links
- http://www.sui-generis.fr