Workshop: Ruth Childs

Workshop Info.

Date｜2025/11/17 (Mon.) - 11/21 (Fri.) 
Language of Instruction｜English
Additional Info. for Participants｜Prior dance experience required

Workshop Description

Playing with Musicality

Sharing my tools as a performer and a creator, two essential points of view for creation emerge. How can we approach the performative body through form (from the outside) and through embodiment or feeling (from the inside)? How can we oscillate between formal and emotional choreographic experiences? How can abstract dance become expressive and vice versa? How can we think about musicality beyond dancing to music? Using existing motifs (from my latest pieces) and new ones, I propose spontaneous, playful, and rhythmic ways of taking up and experiencing the performative space in group and solo settings.

About the Artist

British-American dancer and performer Ruth Childs was born in 1984 in London. She grew up in the United States where she studied dance and music. In 2003 she moved to Geneva to finish her dance training with the Ballet Junior de Genève. Following this, she started working with many internationally known choreographers and directors including Foofwa d'Imobilité, La Ribot, Gilles Jobin, Massimo Furlan, Marco Berrettini and Yasmine Hugonnet. Since 2015, she is also working on a re-creation and revival project of the early works of her the aunt, the American choreographer Lucinda Childs.

In 2014 she founded her company Scarlett's in order to develop her own work through dance, performance, and music. Scarlett's favors intimate and collaborative artistic processes, cultivating intuition and the indefinable. In 2016 the state of Geneva awarded her a scholarship and research residency in Berlin of 6 months to develop her own work. Her first stage piece in collaboration with Stéphane Vecchione, The Goldfish and the Inner Tube, premiered in April 2018. She premiered fantasia, her first solo at the ADC, Geneva in October 2019 and then Blast! in 2022 at the Festival de la Bâtie in Geneva and Fun Times in 2024 at Arsenic in Lausanne. From 2023-2024 Ruth was the associated artist at the CCN2 Grenoble.

Ruth is currently one of the artists in residence at Arsenic in Lausanne. Scarlett's/Ruth Childs benefits from a joint support contract from the City of Geneva/Canton of Geneva/Pro Helvetia (2024-2026).

For more information: ruthchilds.com