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RUTH CHILDS

Dancer and choreographer

Residency at the CCN Grenoble

APRIL 18-25, 2023 DECEMBER 11-22, 2023 MARCH 4-13, 2024 JULY 1-12, 2024

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Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024

CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS: Ruth Childs
DANCE/PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
SOUND RESEARCH/DESIGN: Stéphane Vecchione
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joana Oliveira
COSTUMES: Tara Mabiala
SET DESIGN: Mélissa Rouvinet
EXTERNAL EYE: Madeleine Fournier
VOCAL COACHING: Bertille Puissat

PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joana Oliveira
PRODUCTION DÉLÉGUÉE, ADMINISTRATION, DIFFUSION: Tutu production - Lise Leclerc et Cécilia Lubrano
COPRODUCTIONS: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels

RESIDENCIES: Montpellier Danse as part of the residency program at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
Ruth Childs is an artist-in-residence at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023–2024).
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from a joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva, and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026).

PHOTO : © Marie Magnin
© Michelle Ettlin

Residency at the CCN Grenoble

APRIL 18-25, 2023 DECEMBER 11-22, 2023 MARCH 4-13, 2024 JULY 1-12, 2024

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Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024

British-American dancer and choreographer Ruth Childs was born in 1984 in London. She grew up in the United States where she studied dance and music. In 2003 she moved to Geneva to finish her dance training with the Ballet Junior de Genève. Following this, she started working with many choreographers and directors including Foofwa d’Imobilité, La Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Massimo Furlan, Marco Berrettini and Yasmine Hugonnet. Since 2015, she is also working on a re-creation and revival project of the early works of her aunt, the American choreographer Lucinda Childs.

In 2014 she founded her company Scarlett’s to develop her own work through dance, performance, and music. Scarlett’s favors intimate and collaborative artistic processes, cultivating intuition and the indefinable. In 2016 the state of Geneva awarded her a scholarship and research residency in Berlin of 6 months to develop her own work.

Her first stage piece in collaboration with Stéphane Vecchione, The Goldfish and the Inner Tube, premiered in April 2018. She then creates fantasia, her first solo at the ADC, Geneva in October 2019. Then in 2021 she receives a scholarship from the Centre culturel suisse.Paris and La Becque (La Tour-de-Peilz, Switzerland) to collaborate with Cécile Bouffard on a research project called Delicate People. In 2022 she creates her second solo Blast! at the Pavillon ADC during the Bâtie festival in Geneva.

Ruth is currently one of the artists in residence at Arsenic in Lausanne and the associated artist at CCN2-Centre chorégraphique national de Grenoble (2023-2024.)

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RUTH CHILDS

FUN TIMES

CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS: Ruth Childs
DANCE/PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
SOUND RESEARCH/DESIGN: Stéphane Vecchione
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joana Oliveira
COSTUMES: Tara Mabiala
SET DESIGN: Mélissa Rouvinet
EXTERNAL EYE: Madeleine Fournier
VOCAL COACHING: Bertille Puissat

PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joana Oliveira
PRODUCTION DÉLÉGUÉE, ADMINISTRATION, DIFFUSION: Tutu production - Lise Leclerc et Cécilia Lubrano
COPRODUCTIONS: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels

RESIDENCIES: Montpellier Danse as part of the residency program at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
Ruth Childs is an artist-in-residence at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023–2024).
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from a joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva, and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026).

PHOTO : © Marie Magnin
© Michelle Ettlin

SUPPORT CREATION 2023-24

Residency at the CCN Grenoble

APRIL 18-25, 2023 DECEMBER 11-22, 2023 MARCH 4-13, 2024 JULY 1-12, 2024

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Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024

CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS: Ruth Childs
DANCE/PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
SOUND RESEARCH/DESIGN: Stéphane Vecchione
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joana Oliveira
COSTUMES: Tara Mabiala
SET DESIGN: Mélissa Rouvinet
EXTERNAL EYE: Madeleine Fournier
VOCAL COACHING: Bertille Puissat

PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joana Oliveira
PRODUCTION DÉLÉGUÉE, ADMINISTRATION, DIFFUSION: Tutu production - Lise Leclerc et Cécilia Lubrano
COPRODUCTIONS: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels

RESIDENCIES: Montpellier Danse as part of the residency program at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
Ruth Childs is an artist-in-residence at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023–2024).
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from a joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva, and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026).

PHOTO : © Marie Magnin
© Michelle Ettlin

Residency at the CCN Grenoble

APRIL 18-25, 2023 DECEMBER 11-22, 2023 MARCH 4-13, 2024 JULY 1-12, 2024

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Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024

Ruth Childs’ first group piece, *Fun Times*, is a tragicomic dance for five dancers. For this new creation, she draws inspiration from the rather primitive and even naive act of having fun together, being amusing together, or even making fun of one another. Building on her previous research, the choreographer seeks to experiment with the voice and the musicality of laughter and tears, within a playful relationship to the performance space.

“I see this work as part of my ongoing research into the deconstruction of the musical body (fantasia) and the expressive body (Blast!). This time, particular attention is paid to the voice—the abstract voice of wordless singing, but also the voice of laughter or that of tears. The notion of the ‘musical body’ allows me to reflect both on the ways in which a body reacts to music and on the ways in which the body itself produces music. In fantasia, for example, the sound setup enabled a dialogue with music that was played back but activated by me. I now wish to make greater use of the voice in order to add complexity to the dialogue with external sound materials. Our voices would then serve as both sound and musical sources, while simultaneously generating other external sound materials. In Blast!, I started with expressions and facial grimaces to generate movement. Here, I would like to develop a choreographic language based on expressive behaviors such as laughter or crying, and their interactive emergences.” Ruth Childs

CORRESPON
DANCES

CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS: Ruth Childs
DANCE/PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
SOUND RESEARCH/DESIGN: Stéphane Vecchione
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joana Oliveira
COSTUMES: Tara Mabiala
SET DESIGN: Mélissa Rouvinet
EXTERNAL EYE: Madeleine Fournier
VOCAL COACHING: Bertille Puissat

PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joana Oliveira
PRODUCTION DÉLÉGUÉE, ADMINISTRATION, DIFFUSION: Tutu production - Lise Leclerc et Cécilia Lubrano
COPRODUCTIONS: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels

RESIDENCIES: Montpellier Danse as part of the residency program at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
Ruth Childs is an artist-in-residence at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023–2024).
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from a joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva, and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026).

PHOTO : © Marie Magnin
© Michelle Ettlin

between artists

RESIDENCY AT THE CCN GRENOBLE

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JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024

PUBLIC PROGRAMS: Ruth Childs, Katerina Andreou, Bryan Campbell, Luara Raio
SUPPORTED BY: CCN Grenoble, Pavillon/ADC, en cours

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RESIDENCY AT THE CCN GRENOBLE

FROM JANUARY 2024 TO DECEMBER 2025

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JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024

Upon arriving for her residency at the CCN studio CCN Grenoble, with the mountains before her, Ruth Childs thinking about the artists who had passed through—those who had been there before her and those who would come after. She knows some of them very well, others less so, by name or by sight, and still others not at all. She was struck by the lack of connection between them. She wanted to leave a little note of encouragement, a surprise, check in, ask a question about elements she had picked up from their work. But due to a lack of time, caught up in her own work, her thoughts simply materialized as “likes” via social media, a Facebook page, or Instagram.

To combat this lack of exchange, symptomatic of the current era, she draws inspiration from the free, intimate, handwritten correspondence of members of the Judson Church (Steve Paxton, Yvonne Rainer, Lucinda Childs…) to imagine a space-time that allows for correspondence with a small group of artists. A space-time to exchange ideas, ask questions, get lost together, have fun, and share the details of their artistic questions and struggles. These exchanges may be short and spontaneous (like a postcard) or more carefully crafted (like a letter), but should, ideally, be handwritten and sent by mail.

The primary goal of this project is to foster openness and the shared experience of a genuine, long-term exchange. In a second phase, and in agreement with the group, a publication of some or all of the correspondence produced in 2026 could be considered.

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conversations

CHOREOGRAPHY IN COLLABORATION WITH THE DANCERS: Ruth Childs
DANCE/PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
SOUND RESEARCH/DESIGN: Stéphane Vecchione
LIGHTING DESIGN: Joana Oliveira
COSTUMES: Tara Mabiala
SET DESIGN: Mélissa Rouvinet
EXTERNAL EYE: Madeleine Fournier
VOCAL COACHING: Bertille Puissat

PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
TECHNICAL DIRECTION: Joana Oliveira
PRODUCTION DÉLÉGUÉE, ADMINISTRATION, DIFFUSION: Tutu production - Lise Leclerc et Cécilia Lubrano
COPRODUCTIONS: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels

RESIDENCIES: Montpellier Danse as part of the residency program at the Agora, Cité Internationale de la Danse, with support from the BNP Paribas Foundation.
Ruth Childs is an artist-in-residence at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of a program supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023–2024).
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from a joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva, and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026).

Professional Meetings with JAN FEDINGER

RESIDENCY AT THE CCN GRENOBLE

FROM JANUARY 2024 TO DECEMBER 2025

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JUNE 29-30, 2024
DECEMBER 21-22, 2024

light.conversations is a format conceived by visual artist Jan Fedinger choreographers, dancers, lighting designers, and visual artists.

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In the form of a group discussion, participants analyze images, videos, or texts related to a specific theme to develop a shared vocabulary, gain understanding, express themselves, and nurture their creative vision of light.

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Two sessions are scheduled for April 22 and June 10 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at CCN Grenoble. These events are free of charge, but registration is required.

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