FELIX RUCKERT

Felix is a dancer, choreographer, conceptual artist, and curator. He creates events, performs, gives lectures, and teaches workshops, often fusing his knowledge of dance with a unique approach to BDSM practices and conscious sexuality. He also enjoys making music.

He started as a dancer working with several renowned companies (Mathilde Monnier, Pina Bausch’s Wuppertaler Tanztheater) before concentrating on choreography, conceptual work, and choreographic installations. Between 1993 and 2008, he created more than 30 full-length performances for his Berlin-based company, some of which toured worldwide. He strongly influenced the performing arts by expanding the stage to include the physical bodies of the audience and giving them an active role in his performances. His experimental dance pieces, his participatory work, and his choreographies for ballet companies earned him an international reputation as one of the most versatile and innovative contemporary choreographers.

Felix's main interests are the endless possibilities of the human body. He studied ballet, modern and contemporary dance, improvisation, Feldenkrais, Pilates, Continuum Movement, yoga, Chi Kung, Kyudo, Tao Yoga, massage techniques, Tantra, Kinbaku, choir and solo singing, and much more. Over the last twenty years, he has become well known for his practical and theoretical investigation of BDSM and his exploration of the connections between BDSM techniques and artistic practices, developing an art of touch and a philosophy of sensual communication.

Felix directs the IKSK (Institute for Body Research and Sexual Culture) in Berlin and curates the xplore festival and its international branches. He also signs the program of EURIX - The European Rigger and Model Exchange, a rope bondage festival which happens twice a year at Säälchen, Holzmarkt, Berlin.

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see also:
— www.felixruckert.de
— www.iksk-berlin.de
— www.xplore-berlin.de
— www.felixruckert.de/eurix