Blast! - Ruth Childs - Ruth Childs

Fun Times Blast!Delicate People fantasia Inner Tubes The Goldfish and the Inner Tube Calico Mingling, Katema, Reclining Rondo, Particular Reel Scarlett’s Scared Pastime, Carnation, Museum Piece Scarlett’s Fall Cosas Rosas

Creation 2022

Choreography/Performance: Ruth Childs
Sound design and research: Stéphane Vecchione
Light design: Joana Oliveira
Artistic Collaborator: Bryan Campbell
Costumes: Coco Petitpierre
Costume production : Anne Tesson, Coralie Chauvin
Outside eye: Cécile Bouffard
Coaching: Michèle Gurtner
Technical Direction: Joana Oliveira
Production: Scarlett’s
Delegated production, touring: Tutu Production, Lise Leclerc & Cécilia Lubrano
Coproduction: Pavillon ADC-Geneva, La Bâtie Festival, Geneva, Arsenic, Lausanne Atelier de Paris CDCN, Paris, CCN de Tours/ Thomas Lebrun (residency), CCN de Rillieux-la-Pape, A-CDCN (Les Hivernales – CDCN d’Avignon, La Manufacture – CDCN Nouvelle-Aquitaine Bordeaux· La Rochelle, L’échangeur – CDCN Hauts-de-France, Le Dancing CDCN Dijon Bourgogne-Franche-Comté, Chorège CDCN, Le Pacifique – CDCN Grenoble – Auvergne – Rhône-Alpes, Touka Danses – CDCN Guyane, Atelier de Paris / CDCN, Le Gymnase CDCN Roubaix – Hauts-de-France, POLE-SUD CDCN / Strasbourg, La Place de la Danse – CDCN Toulouse / Occitanie, La Maison CDCN Uzès Gard Occitanie, La Briqueterie CDCN du Val-de-Marne)
Residency: Lo Studio – performing arts centre – Arbedo- Castione/Bellinzona – Switzerland
Financial support: Pro Helvetia Swiss foundation for Culture, Stanley Thomas Johnson Foundation

Photos: Marie Magnin

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Blast! is based on my observations of how humans express themselves. If my previous creation fantasia invoked sensations and movements linked to my own intimate memory, this new solo Blast! is a study, panorama, or re-appropriation of bodies, focusing on the painful, suffering, strange, explosive, and violent body. For some time now, I have felt the need to respond to violence by embodying and transforming it in my work. Not necessarily my own violence, but the violence that surrounds us, traverses the history of humanity, haunts us with imagery and stories, the violence of our imagination or our nightmares. In parallel to a study on expressivity, two intuitive concepts are at the heart of this new project: one is musical and the other spatial. These concepts have a meditative or calming aspect and serve as a juxtaposition to the intensity of the movement, or maybe even an antidote. Together, they both could either contain the energy or release it.

Past Shows

08.04.2024
Le Gymnase CDCN, Roubaix, France
14–17.03.2024
Programme Commun, Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
19.01.2024
Pôle-Sud CDCN Strasbourg, France
05–06.10.2023
La Manufacture/ CDCN, Bordeaux, France
30.09.2023
CDCN/L’Echangeur, Château-Thierry, France
27.09.2023
CDCN/La Briqueterie, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
30.07–01.08.2023
Impulstanz, Vienna, Austria
15.06.2023
Le Pacifique/CDCN Grenoble, France
16.05.2023
Chorège/CDCN Falaise, France
18.03.2023
Le Dancing/CDCN Dijon, France
16.02.2023
Les Hivernales/CDCN Avignon, France
13.02.2023
La Place de la Danse/CDCN Toulouse, France
21–22.10.2022
Atelier de Paris CDCN/ Swiss Week Centre culturel suisse/ France
01.10.2022
FIT festival, Lugano, Switzerland
21–25.09.2022
Arsenic, Lausanne, Switzerland
27–31.08.2022
Pavillon ADC, La Bâtie-Festival de Genève (Première!)