Fun Times

To have fun, to be funny, to make fun of. Fun Times explores the various meanings of the word “fun”, from a tragicomic perspective that mirrors our ambivalent era, in which we don’t know any more whether to laugh or cry.
After fantasia and Blast!, this is Ruth Child’s first group piece. In Fun Times, she pays particular attention to sound – as in her previous creations – in a renewed collaboration with Stéphane Vecchione. Here, the voice will be the guest of honour. The choreography will be intimately linked to it through a continuous collage of choreographic, musical and emotional motifs.

Lyrical, absurd or cynical, Fun Times uses voices and bodies to sing, laugh and cry endlessly. What emerges from this tragicomic loop? In this grey area, where contradictions no longer find words but are expressed through sound and movement, Ruth Childs and her acolytes dissect feelings by staging these strange ambiguities. By taming this turmoil, Fun Times opens up new dimensions, juggling hope and despair in an attempt to get through it together, as best we can.