Fun Times
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. Inspired by the work of American composer Meredith Monk, and acompanied by the musician 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.