Ruth Childs, Cécile Bouffard
Such a Devoted Bunch
novembernov 19 – 21
© Cécile Bouffard ©
Métro : Château de Vincennes (ligne 1) puis navette Cartoucherie ou bus 112
Thursday november 19
20h
Friday november 20
20h
Saturday november 21
17h
Concept Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard. Choreography (in collaboration with the dancers) Ruth Childs. Dance/performance Marta Capaccioli, Cosima Grand, Mona Mioca Felah. Set design, sculptures and costumes Cécile Bouffard. Lighting design Joana Oliveira. Sound design Stéphane Vecchione. Costume production Coralie Chauvin. External eye Bryan Campbell. Technical direction Rodolphe Martin. Administration, production, distribution Claudia Petagna, Cecília Lubrano, Astrid Toledo.
Production Scarlett’s
Co-production Pavillon/ADC (Geneva); La Comédie de Genève; La Bâtie Festival de Genève; Arsenic—Centre d’art scénique contemporain (Lausanne); Atelier de Paris/CDCN
Supports Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels; Ernst Göhner Foundation; Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation
Residencies Watermill Center (New York); La Ménagerie de verre
The Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs Company benefits from the joint support agreement between the City of Geneva, the Canton of Geneva and Pro Helvetia (2024–2026)
L’Atelier de Paris/CDCN, the Swiss Cultural Centre and the Festival d’Automne à Paris present this show in corealisation.
With the support of
Ruth Childs, the Anglo-American choreographer and Cécile Bouffard, the French visual artist turn their attention to our quirks, bodily memory and the remnants of folklore in the contemporary world. Part installation, part performance for three dancers, Such a Devoted Bunch explores the mechanics of devotion and obsession via movement and objects.
From their very first encounter, Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard were struck by the complementarity of their respective work. From that moment on, coming into physical contact with Cécile’s sculptures left its mark on Ruth’s moving body. Guided by these shapes and signs, she draws from them a source of freedom in terms of interpretation and the reinvention of gestures. Together, their different universes enter into a dialogue centred upon genres and allures in a sensorial experience in which matter, sound and movement become interwoven. This new work by the duo gathers together a whimsical bunch (in all senses of the word) of bodies driven on by a shared obsession, and devotion. How does collective enthusiasm come about? How are the different ways in which we belong to one other drawn up? At the crossroads between the intimate and the collective, belief and letting go, Such a Devoted Bunch maps out a community of bodies and objects that respond to one another, push back and join in.
In the same place
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