Emmanuèle Phuon is a dancer, choreographer, and educator based in New York and Brussels. Phuon has performed internationally with the Elisa Monte Dance Company, Martha Clarke, Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project, Joaquim Schloemer, and Yvonne Rainer. Her choreographic work has been commissioned and presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Centre, New Haven’s Festival of Arts and Ideas, Spoleto Dance Festival Charleston, Guggenheim Works and Process, Singapore Da:ns festival, Danspace Project in New York, Hopkins Center for the Arts, among others. Ms. Phuon is the recipient of a Richard Porter Leach fellowship, a Baryshnikov Arts Center’s Martha Duffy Memorial Fellowship, and a 2019 New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Dance Research Fellowship. Her work Khmeropedies III / Source: Primate with Cambodian-based NGO Amrita Performing Arts earned the support and endorsement of His Majesty King Sihamoni, and more generally has been mentioned and discussed in numerous publications including “Beyond the Apsara: Celebrating Dance in Cambodia,” (Routledge, 2010) “Choreography and Corporeality: Relay in Motion,” (Palgrave Mc Millan, 2016), New Theatre Quarterly/ Cambridge University Press (Vol 31. 2015), Udaya Journal of Khmer Studies (2014). Phuon has authored an issue of Dance Index (Winter 2022/2023), an Eakins Press Foundation journal, about her work in the context of the Cambodian diaspora and has contributed a chapter, “Postmodern Dance: Laboratory of Rupture,” to Milestones in Dance in the USA (Routledge, 2022, pp. 181-205). She is currently working on a book with Yvonne Rainer about dance pedagogy and improvisation.
