delicate people

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 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 6-month scholarship and research residency in Berlin 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 and at the Center for Ballet and the Arts at New York University.

Cécile Bouffard, born in 1987, lives and works in Paris. A graduate of the National School of Fine Arts in Lyon in 2014, she has since co-founded the artist-run-space Pauline Perplexe in Arcueil. In 2015 and then in 2021, she was in residence at the Cité internationale des arts, and in 2020 at Villa Belleville. The artist benefited from personal exhibitions at the Centre d’art contemporain Les Capucins in Embrun in 2019, at the Guadalajara 90210 gallery in Mexico City, at Rond Point Projects in Marseille and at La Salle de Bains in Lyon in 2022. She participated in group exhibitions, including: “La fugitive” at Crédac in 2022, “Ricochette” at Berceau in 2021, “Your friends and neighbours” at High Art, and “Sâr Dubnotal” at CAC Brétigny in 2020. Since 2021 she has been collaborating with dancer and choreographer Ruth Childs as part of the Delicate People project, and since 2018 has led several lesbian collective projects such as VNOUJE with Clara Pacotte and Roxanne Maillet and La Gousse with Barberin Quintin and Roxanne Maillet. Her works have been included in the collections of the Cnap, the Contemporary Art Fund – Paris Collections, the art libraries of the City of Strasbourg and the Maison des arts de Grand Quevilly. www.cecilebouffard.com 

Evelyn Dugan is a multifarious experimental mover, performance artist, and choreographer born and based in NYC. Evelyn has performed work by Robert Wilson, Molissa Fenley, Lenio Kaklea, Netta Yerushalmy, Gregory Dawson, among others. She performed both Pedro Ruiz’s Volata and Martha Graham’s Panorama (1935) at the Joyce Theater in spring 2025. Evelyn was an artist in residence at the Watermill Center, premiering her work “Taut Nature” and performing in Robert Wilson’s “Ubu” in 2023, and returns regularly as an artist and member of their production team. Evelyn has also choreographed work for East End Arts, Earl Mosley’s Institute of the Arts (EMIA), and Uptown Rising. Dugan graduated summa cum laude with a BFA in Dance and a BA in Business from Marymount Manhattan College (May 2025), and trained at Alonzo King Lines Ballet and The Graham School on scholarship. She won Food Network’s Chopped Junior in 2016 and continues her passion for culinary arts.