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At Geneva’s La Bâtie Festival, Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard’s playful magic banishes the blues
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At Geneva’s La Bâtie Festival, Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouffard’s playful magic banishes the blues

From Le Temps · () French

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  • Such a Devoted Bunch, created by choreographer Ruth Childs and visual artist Cécile Bouffard, opened the season at Geneva’s Pavillon ADC.
  • The work features three dancers assembling seemingly disconnected, dreamlike scenes around the idea of play.
  • The performance runs at La Bâtie-Festival de Genève through September 5.

Playfulness becomes a form of resistance in Such a Devoted Bunch, the new collaboration between Swiss choreographer Ruth Childs and French visual artist Cécile Bouffard. The work opened the season at Geneva’s Pavillon ADC with an escape that is both mischievous and philosophical.

Three dancers, Marta Capaccioli, Mona Fellah and Cosima Grand, begin in a scene that feels borrowed from a childhood attic. Wearing skirts or jeans, loafers and white socks, they crouch over a puzzle and search for the pieces of a lost landscape.

That image sets the tone for a performance built from wonderfully wandering vignettes. The scenes never fully explain what connects them, leaving the audience to follow a chain of associations shaped by fantasy, obsession and play.

Childs and Bouffard describe the piece as an ode to personal fixations and passing whims. Play functions both as an artistic principle for the work and as an existential possibility for its audience. Such a Devoted Bunch is showing at La Bâtie-Festival de Genève through Saturday, September 5.

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