vo-dinh's wide-ranging choreography has been shaped through the process of creating new work. while she initially focused on choreographing in a more formal way, her methodology gradually evolved toward an open-ended process affording a prominent role to improvisation in the studio. surrounded by close collaborators, vo-dinh works with her performers on a long-term basis. several pieces have been deeply rooted in scientific and anthropological research on human beings, romantic relationships, absence, the lack of emotion and schizophrenia. the art world has also informed her work: between figurative and abstract in the visual arts, as well as in the relationship between bodies in motion and the music of beethoven, dusapin, zeena parkins or gérard grisey. although the choreographic structure often draws on minimalism to the point of repeating and transforming a single motif, vo-dinh has mainly focused on time, how it is perceived and its relationship to memory and memories. after a long absence, fragmented narration has surfaced in her latest pieces – a new approach to time and point of view, as well as to the body and how it relates to others.