Residency at CCN Grenoble
April 18-25, 2023 December 11-22, 2023 March 4-13, 2024 July 1-12, 2024
Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024
L'Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique Lausanne, Switzerland
CHOREOGRAPHY (in collaboration with the dancers): Ruth Childs
DANCE, PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND LIGHT CREATION: Joana Oliveira
RESEARCH, SOUND CREATION: Stéphane Vecchione
ASSISTANT: Flow Marie
COSTUMES: (in progress)
COSTUME DESIGN: (in progress)
EXTERNAL EYE: (in progress)
VOCAL COACHING: (in progress)
PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
DELEGATED PRODUCTION, ADMINISTRATION, BROADCASTING: Tutu Production : Lise Leclerc and Cécilia Lubrano
CO-PRODUCTION: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, center chorégraphique national de Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels (in progress)
RESIDENCES: L'Agora, cité internationale de la danse, Montpellier (in progress)
PHOTO: © Marie Magnin
DESIGN: Ruth Childs
Residency at CCN Grenoble
April 18-25, 2023 December 11-22, 2023 March 4-13, 2024 July 1-12, 2024
Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024
L'Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique Lausanne, Switzerland
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.)
CHOREOGRAPHY (in collaboration with the dancers): Ruth Childs
DANCE, PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND LIGHT CREATION: Joana Oliveira
RESEARCH, SOUND CREATION: Stéphane Vecchione
ASSISTANT: Flow Marie
COSTUMES: (in progress)
COSTUME DESIGN: (in progress)
EXTERNAL EYE: (in progress)
VOCAL COACHING: (in progress)
PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
DELEGATED PRODUCTION, ADMINISTRATION, BROADCASTING: Tutu Production : Lise Leclerc and Cécilia Lubrano
CO-PRODUCTION: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, center chorégraphique national de Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels (in progress)
RESIDENCES: L'Agora, cité internationale de la danse, Montpellier (in progress)
PHOTO: © Marie Magnin
DESIGN: Ruth Childs
Residency at CCN Grenoble
April 18-25, 2023 December 11-22, 2023 March 4-13, 2024 July 1-12, 2024
Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024
L'Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique Lausanne, Switzerland
CHOREOGRAPHY (in collaboration with the dancers): Ruth Childs
DANCE, PERFORMANCE: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
TECHNICAL DIRECTION AND LIGHT CREATION: Joana Oliveira
RESEARCH, SOUND CREATION: Stéphane Vecchione
ASSISTANT: Flow Marie
COSTUMES: (in progress)
COSTUME DESIGN: (in progress)
EXTERNAL EYE: (in progress)
VOCAL COACHING: (in progress)
PRODUCTION: Scarlett's
DELEGATED PRODUCTION, ADMINISTRATION, BROADCASTING: Tutu Production : Lise Leclerc and Cécilia Lubrano
CO-PRODUCTION: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, center chorégraphique national de Grenoble, center chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, DR by Van Cleef & Arpels (in progress)
RESIDENCES: L'Agora, cité internationale de la danse, Montpellier (in progress)
PHOTO: © Marie Magnin
DESIGN: Ruth Childs
Residency at CCN Grenoble
April 18-25, 2023 December 11-22, 2023 March 4-13, 2024 July 1-12, 2024
Creation from October 30th to November 3, 2024
L'Arsenic-Centre d'art scénique Lausanne, Switzerland
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 naïve act of having fun together, being funny together or even mocking together. In keeping with her previous research, the choreographer wishes to experiment with the voice, the musicality of laughter and tears, in a playful relationship to the performative space.
"This work follows in the footsteps of my 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 tears. The notion of the "musical body" allows me to reflect as much on the ways in which a body reacts to music, as on the ways in which the body itself produces music. In fantasia, for example, the sound device enabled a dialogue with broadcasted music, but activated by myself. Now I'd like to make greater use of the voice, to make the dialogue with external sound materials more complex. Our voices would then become both sound and musical sources, and at the same time, generators of other external sound materials. In Blast! I used expressions and grimaces to generate movement. Here, I'd like to work on choreographic writing based on expressive behaviors such as laughing or crying, and their interactionist emergences." Ruth Childs
Delicate People is a project initiated by Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard to combine their respective practices of dance and sculpture. Delicate People is a series of vignettes dealing with figures and motifs of troubling identities and adjusted gestures.
Ruth Childs delves into the intimate layers of her physical and emotional memories, triggered by the great classical music tunes, from Beethoven to Tchaikovsky or Dvorak, that she listened to as a child. Programmed at the IMPACT FESTIVAL 2023.
Ruth Childs proposes to make accessible the hyper-presence of a body in performance, the present moment, as well as the collective aspect of preparing for a performance and experiencing this ephemeral moment. Through the body and its use in movement, participants will share a collective yet intimate experience to connect with their own creativity. Guided by the choreographer, they will draw on an unusual repertoire to nourish their imaginations. In this way, grimace, color and melody will become choreographic tools that will lead them to create performances in natural spaces. For further information: helene.azzaro@ccn-grenoble.com
For several years now, Ruth Childs has been working on a project to re-create the early works of her aunt, Lucinda Childs, an emblematic figure of American postmodern dance and the minimalist movement. On December 13, 2023, she worked with students in the specialized dance cycle at the Grenoble Conservatory, inviting them to work on this choreographic vocabulary: simple gestures, a taste for repetition and variation, devices that play on trajectories. On March 6, 2024, she will once again be working with Grenoble Conservatory dance students, this time exploring the choreographic material of her last two pieces, Fantasia and Blast!