Fun Times
Creation 2024
Choreography in collaboration with the dancers: Ruth Childs
Dance/performance: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
Research & sound design: Stéphane Vecchione
Light design: Joana Oliveira
Light design assistant: Alexy Carruba
Assistant: Flow Marie
Costumes: Tara Mabiala
Set Design: Mélissa Rouvinet
Set design assistant: Joanika Pages
Outside eye: Madeleine Fournier
Vocal Coach: Bertille Puissat, Didou Crazy
Technical Director (creation): Joana Oliveira
Direction technique (from 2025): Rodolphe Martin
Production, administration, diffusion : Lise Leclerc et Cecília Lubrano
Special thanks to: Violaine Huisman, Denis Waldvogel
Production: Scarlett’s
Coproductions: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
With support from: Montpellier Danse dans le cadre de l’accueil en résidence à l’Agora – cité internationale de la danse, avec le soutien de la Fondation BNP Paribas, Loterie Romande Fondation d’aide sociale et culturelle du Canton de Vaud, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Fondation Mécénat SIG, Fondation Ernst Göhner
Ruth Childs is the associated artist at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of the system supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023-2024).
Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs benefits from a joint support contract from the City of Geneva/Canton of Geneva/Pro Helvetia (2024-2026).
Photos: Marie Magnin
PRESS RELEASE
Fun Times stages different variations on the English notion of fun: the naive act of having fun or being fun together, the less conventional act of mocking. Ruth Childs will explore how these shared experiences can be translated, both choreographically and vocally. Movements and trajectories move away from the geometric rigor of her previous pieces to work on dances that explode in a playful relationship with space. As for the voices, they are used for their sonic and musical qualities: no words, but an expressiveness linked to laughter, crying and onomatopoeia. In collaboration with Stéphane Vecchione, she explores the ways in which the voice can become one with the choreography or be dissociated from it, unfolding in individual or shared scores. In this way, Ruth Childs explores the musicality of laughter and tears, their tone and rhythm, in a tragicomic vein befitting our times, when we no longer know whether to laugh or cry. A tension reminiscent of Modern Times, where Chaplin was able to simultaneously capture the seriousness and the ridiculousness of modern life.
Creation 2024
Choreography in collaboration with the dancers: Ruth Childs
Dance/performance: Bryan Campbell, Ruth Childs, Karine Dahouindji, Cosima Grand, Ha Kyoon Larcher
Research & sound design: Stéphane Vecchione
Light design: Joana Oliveira
Light design assistant: Alexy Carruba
Assistant: Flow Marie
Costumes: Tara Mabiala
Set Design: Mélissa Rouvinet
Set design assistant: Joanika Pages
Outside eye: Madeleine Fournier
Vocal Coach: Bertille Puissat, Didou Crazy
Technical Director (creation): Joana Oliveira
Direction technique (from 2025): Rodolphe Martin
Production, administration, diffusion : Lise Leclerc et Cecília Lubrano
Special thanks to: Violaine Huisman, Denis Waldvogel
Production: Scarlett’s
Coproductions: Pavillon-ADC Genève, Arsenic-Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/CDCN, CCN2 Grenoble, centre chorégraphique national de Caen en Normandie dans le cadre du dispositif Accueil-studio/ministère de la Culture, Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels
With support from: Montpellier Danse dans le cadre de l’accueil en résidence à l’Agora – cité internationale de la danse, avec le soutien de la Fondation BNP Paribas, Loterie Romande Fondation d’aide sociale et culturelle du Canton de Vaud, Fonds culturel de la Société Suisse des Auteurs (SSA), Fondation Mécénat SIG, Fondation Ernst Göhner
Ruth Childs is the associated artist at the CCN DE GRENOBLE, as part of the system supported by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication (2023-2024).
Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs benefits from a joint support contract from the City of Geneva/Canton of Geneva/Pro Helvetia (2024-2026).
Photos: Marie Magnin
PRESS RELEASE
Past Shows
09–13.04.2025
ADC, Geneva, Switzerland
21–22.11.2024
Swiss Dance Week à l’Atelier de Paris / CDCN avec le Centre culturel suisse, France
31.10–03.11.2024
Première! Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland