Ruth Childs and Cécile Bouf­fard start­ed the project del­i­cate peo­ple in 2021 as a col­lab­o­ra­tion between their respec­tive dis­ci­plines: dance and sculp­ture. ​“Del­i­cate” describes both Bouffard’s illus­trat­ed fig­ures and Childs’s cre­ative process — the fine tun­ing nec­es­sary to an evolv­ing chore­o­graph­ic sto­ry. Both artists cul­ti­vate intu­ition and inde­ter­mi­na­cy, fos­ter­ing the sus­pen­sion of judg­ment through a series of del­i­cate­ly dis­turb­ing vignettes. This piece will be per­formed by local dancer Eve­lyn Dugan, with chore­o­graph­ic direc­tion from Ruth Childs.