Ruth Childs (Choreographer/Performer), British-American dancer and performer, 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 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 for 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. In 2022, Childs created her second solo Blast! which was awarded the Prix suisse des arts de la scène that same year for an outstanding choreographic production. From 2023-2024 Childs was the associated artist at the CCN2 Grenoble. Her first group piece Fun Times premiered in 2024 at Arsenic in Lausanne. Her work has been presented around the world: Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, Biennal de Danza de Cali, Impulstanz in Vienna, Crossing the Lines in New York…
Childs is currently a fellow at the Center for Ballet and the Arts, NYU for the 2025-2026 season.
Stéphane Vecchione (Sound Designer), Swiss sound designer, performer and self-taught drummer, trained as an actor, at the Conservatoire de Lausanne from 1995 to 1999. He then worked as a performer and musician for many artists including Stefan Kaegi, Massimo Furlan, Nicole Seiler, Philippe Saire, Clédat & Petitpierre. He is also a member of the groups Velma and Deviation (performance collectives based in Lausanne.) In 2010 he founded his company SORI, to develop work through performance and sound. In 2014 he started his collaboration with Ruth Childs first with their piece The Goldfish and the Inner Tube (2018,) and then creating the soundscapes for fantasia, Blast!, and Fun Times
Joana Oliveira (Lighting Designer) was born in Porto, Portugal. Early on she developed a passion for live arts and in particular light design. In 2006 she entered the Academy of Contemporary Performance in Porto for light design. In 2014 she received a scholarship to work as an apprentice at the Arsenic theatre in Switzerland. She then started to design lighting for the following directors: Ludovic Chazaud, Orélie Fuchs Chen, Le Collectif sur un Malentendu, Claire Deutsch, Christophe Jaquet, YoungSoon Cho Jaquet, Old Masters and Ruth Childs. Oliveira has been collaborating with Scarlett’s since 2018 for light design of The Goldfish and the Inner Tube, fantasia, and Blast! and Fun TImes.
