after training to be a ballet dancer and also exploring the american dance tradition, vo-dinh expanded her learning experience at the merce cunningham school in new york. back in france, she danced with françois raffinot from 1991 to 1996. in 1997 she founded the sui generis company. she was noticed early on for her distinctive style. in 1999 she was awarded a villa medicis hors-les murs grant for her research in creating texture/composite, for which she was awarded the prix d’auteur at the rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de bagnolet in 2000. the piece was subsequently presented at danspace project in new york in 2002. since then her productions have been presented on a regular basis both in france and abroad. in january 2012, vo-dinh became the director of le phare, centre chorégraphique national du havre haute-normandie, ushering in a new artistic vision that has reached out to a diversity of choreographic styles.