"delicate people" by Cécile Bouffard and Ruth Childs

Performance

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In delicate people, choreographer and dancer Ruth Childs teams up with sculptor Cécile Bouffard to offer a performance at the intersection of two disciplines: construction and movement. Cécile Bouffard’s sculptural work invites us to project ourselves into the object: a certain contour calls for a gesture, a grip, a touch; a certain curve suggests a caress. Letting herself be guided by intuition, Ruth Childs plays around the form, hesitates over a movement, or suggests another. Through these uncertainties in the face of objects and the behaviours they imply, we confront questions about blurred identities and the suspension of judgement.
A shared wandering that makes it possible to create deliberate incongruities, an unexpected creative exploration, and a connection with others.

Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard’s project was supported by Fluxus Art Project.

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Ruth Childs (1984, Londres) lives and works in Geneva (Switzerland).
Dancer and choreographer Ruth Childs moved to Geneva in 2003 to finish her training with the Ballet Junior de Genève.
She has worked 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 has also been working on a project to recreate the early works of her aunt, American choreographer Lucinda Childs (1940). Her work ceaselessly questions the boundaries between dance, performance and music. In 2014, she founded her own company, Scarlett’s, to develop projects and foster collaborative processes. In 2021, a grant from the Swiss Cultural Centre in Paris and La Becque in Switzerland led her to collaborate with Cécile Bouffard on delicate people.

Cécile Bouffard (1987, Paris), lives and works in Paris (France).
Cécile Bouffard develops sculptural and corporeal work that brings to life a repertoire of everyday objects and sensual gestures. Shifting between the familiar and the strange, her works cultivate a constant ambiguity in terms of categories,
uses, and definitions of forms and functions. Very much involved in collective projects, Cécile Bouffard co-founded the artist-run space Pauline Perplexe at Arcueil in 2014, and since 2020 she has been editing the magazine VNOUJE
(Fusion collective). She is also a member of the lesbian cuisine collective La Gousse.