Felix Ruckert is a dancer, choreographer, conceptual artist and curator. He creates events, performs, gives lectures and teaches workshops, often fusing his knowledge from dance with an unique approach to practices of BDSM 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 evening length performances for his Berlin based company; some of those toured worldwide. He strongly influenced the performing arts by expanding the stage to the physical body of the audience and giving it 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 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. In the last twenty years he became well known for his practical and theoretical investigation of BDSM and the exploration of connections between BDSM techniques and artistic practices, developing an art of touch and a philosophy of sensual communication.
From 2007 to 2016 he directed the art venue schwelle7 in Berlin as a fusion of a kinky club, a dance studio and a private living room: a permanent performance on the threshold between the private and the public. schwelle7 also produced many performances and workshops with Japanese masters and therefore played a major role in the popularization of Kinbaku – Japanese Rope Bondage- in Europe.
Since 2004 Felix directs the annual festival xplore in Berlin and curates its international branches, with 31 editions in seven countries so far. Since 2012 he also directs EURIX – The European Rigger&Model Exchange, a bi-annual festival in Berlin dedicated to the development of Rope Bondage as an art form.
In October 2020 Felix opened a new venue in Berlin at Holzmarkt, the IKSK – Institut für Körperforschung und sexuelle Kultur (Institute for Body Research and Sexual Culture). IKSK was closed for Corona and just reopened again, June, 2021.
co-presented by: Sebastian Tal
Sebastian Tal is an artistic researcher, philosopher, certified sexological bodyworker, and somatic sex educator. He is also a passionate father who loves spending time with his family in nature and with his hands in the soil. He is currently completing his training in Somatic Experiencing®, which has become one of his core approaches.
For nearly a decade, Sebastian worked as a researcher and lecturer at the Zurich University of the Arts, collaborating with artists and activists around the world on projects such as Afroecology, Permafunk and Social Fermentation, Biological Wisdom and Social Transformation, Micropracticing Decolonization, and his long-term collaboration with Wiktoria Furrer on Mikropraktiken / micropractice.
End of this year, Sebastian is launching his five-month Erotic Embodiment Training for *men* – a deep somatic un/learning journey into the inner ecology of sexuality. He also offers experimental workshops on sexuality that focus on presence, emergence, and play, as well as one-on-one sessions in Zurich with an emphasis on trauma healing and erotic embodiment.
www.sebastiantal.com / www.fruehlingserwachen.ch
In his workshop Sebastian will be assisted by his dear friend and collaborator Noa Spindler, an acclaimed filmmaker, Somatic Experiencing® practitioner and an explorer of the erotic realms for many decades.
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