Lands – portrait de la ville de Houston

Emmanuelle Huynh
Jocelyn Cottencin

Show
a group of people in front of buildings in Houston
Nov 7th - 9th, 2023
Choreographer
Emmanuelle Huynh, Jocelyn Cottencin
Production
Plateforme Múa
Jocelyn Cottencin Studio

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin for the creation of Lands – portrait de la ville de Houston.

For the portrait of Houston, Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin chose a line of research on which Cottencin has worked for the past ten years: "la fin de la modernité" (the end of modernity). This concept has been developed by many anthropologists, including Bruno Latour, Isabelle Stengers and John Baird Callicott.

This concept is associated with the idea of “relative universality,” meaning that Westerners have predominantly lived with a worldview oriented towards progress and exploitation, where nature is cast aside as an element of which we are not a part. This perspective stems from the 17th-century separation of natural sciences from other sciences and the humanities.

“The end of modernity” teaches us that worldviews are manifold and other existing societies see the world from a different, sometimes horizontal perspective. And that the notion of nature doesn’t exist for many of them because these societies integrate their “environment” into their relational network.

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Portrait of Emmanuelle Huynh © Christian Robert

Emmanuelle Huynh

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin for the creation of Lands – portrait de la ville de Houston.

 

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Portrait of Jocelyn Cottencin © Jocelyn Cottencin

Jocelyn Cottencin

In 2023, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels is supporting Emmanuelle Huynh and Jocelyn Cottencin for the creation of Lands – portrait de la ville de Houston.

Dancers lying on the floor and on a bench - video in the background.
01 / 03 — Lands - Portrait de la ville de Houston © Amitava Sarkar
Dancers holding hands - video in the background.
02 / 03 — Lands - Portrait de la ville de Houston © Amitava Sarkar
Group of dancers - video in the background.
03 / 03 — Lands - Portrait de la ville de Houston © Amitava Sarkar