French dancer Camille Lélu is rehearsing for the performance of Bleu Neon dance. (Photo from Kim-Sanh Chau’s Facebook page) HCM City (VNA) - A new dance Bleu Neon co-created by Vietnamese and Frenchcontemporary dance artists will be staged at the Factory Contemporary Arts Centrein Ho Chi Minh City’s district 2 on March 22.
The dance, a collaborative project of French-Vietnamesedancer Kim-Sanh Chau and Camille Lélu, and Vo Hong Nhung of Vietnam, is theresult of a month-long residency programme at Villa Saigon initiated by theFrench Institute in HCM City and the city-based Dancenter.
In Blue Neon, the artists use lights collected in the city during theirresidency to represent the city’s culture and history. The performance willconsist of independent and simultaneous dances.
The full version of the dance is expected to becompleted during a residency programme in Brigittines, Belgium in April 2020.It will premier in Montreal, Canada in autumn 2020.
Chau, based in Montreal, was trained in dance inFrance and Canada. Her choreographic works have been presented at dancefestivals in France, Canada, the Republic of Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam.
She is also a screen-dance filmmaker. Her works,mostly collaborative, have been screened in Canada, Colombia, Germany, France,Italy and Vietnam. She was awarded Best Director by the 2017 Festival QuartiersDanses in Montreal for her film Inner Smoke. Chau is artistic and general co-director at Studio 303 inCanada.
Meanwhile, Nhung received many local danceprizes and awards when she was a child.
In 2009, she began her professional dance careerwith Urban Dance Group as a solo dancer and instructor in ballet andcontemporary dance. She became a teacher of ballet, jazz and contemporary danceat Dancenter in 2013.
Lélu studied at the Epsedanse School of DanceTeaching in Montpellier Hérault, France. She was awarded first position in theEuropean dance contest at the French Federation of Danse in 2007.
She has worked with notable choreographers anddance companies in France and the US. She is co-founder and co-director of thedance company Les Pas Indispensables, along with Anthony Couroyer and VivienLetarnec.-VNA
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