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 scholarship and research residency in Berlin of 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, she 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 Ruth 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… Ruth is currently one of the artists in residence at Arsenic in Lausanne.