Such a Devoted Bunch - Ruth Childs

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Creation 2026

Concept: Ruth Childs, Cécile Bouffard
Choreography (in collaboration with the dancers) Ruth Childs
Dance/performance Marta Capaccioli, Cosima Grand, mona mioca felah
Set design, sculptures; costumes: Cécile Bouffard Light design: Joana Oliveira
Sound design: Stéphane Vecchione
Costume production: Coralie Chauvin
Outside eye: Bryan Campbell
Technical director: Rodolphe Martin
Administration, production and booking: Claudia Petagna, Cecília Lubrano, Astrid Toledo

Production Scarlett’s

Coproductions: Pavillon/ADC Genève, La Comédie de Genève, La Bâtie Festival de Genève, Arsenic – Centre d’art scénique contemporain Lausanne, Atelier de Paris/Cndc

Support: Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels, Fondation Ernst Göhner, Fondation Stanley Thomas Johnson

Residences: Watermill Center – NYC, La Ménagerie de Verre

Scarlett’s/Ruth Childs benefits from a joint support contract from the City of Geneva/Canton of Geneva/Pro Helvetia (2024-2026).

photos: Cécile Bouffard & Orkidée

Choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard explore our vices, quirks, hobbies and fads, as well as bodily memory and the remnants of folklore in the contemporary world. Part installation, part performance for three dancers—Cosima Grand, Marta Capaccioli, and mona mioca felah—Such a Devoted Bunch explores the mechanics of devotion and obsession through movement and objects.

Our rituals, passions, and habits—whether ancestral or anecdotal—become vehicles for creating communities and moments of collective enthusiasm. The piece brings together a whimsical bunch (in all iterations of its meaning) of bodies and shapes that respond to one another, push back and join in.

Past Shows