Emmanuelle Lê Phan and Elon Höglund have been working together since 2005 and founded Tentacle Tribe in 2012. Their first official collaboration was a performance choreographed for the Cirque Du Soleil's stage in Quebec City. This duet was adapted into a short film by director Natalie Galazka called Elon & Emmanuelle.
With this Canadian-Swedish creative alliance, Lê Phan and Höglund Lê Phan and Höglund have established themselves as practitioners of a unique dance technique, and as experienced on-stage performers active in the world of street dance. They approach their high-energy choreography through diverse philosophies of movement.
Today their repertoire includes magnetic duets and group pieces such as Body to Body, When They Fall, Nobody Likes a Pixelated Squid, Origami Mami, Threesixnine, and Fractals of You, which have toured in Canada and in more than 80 international cities. Some of their choreography such as Vanishing Points, Crack the Cypher and Mami Origami have been turned into short films, and into a feature film with Ghost in 2019.
The duo has also been hired as an act for Special Events with Cirque Du Soleil and Cirque Éloize in Antalya, Turkey, and Tignes, France. Their group work has also been presented at the renowned Montreal C2 Summit. As choreographers, they have created commissioned works for Vancouver's OURO Collective, Oslo's Urban Moves Festival, 100 LUX Festival, Stockholm's DOCH (dance and circus program), York University in Toronto, Arizona State University, École de danse de Québec, Rutgers University, and the École nationale de cirque de Montréal.