Felix Ruckert

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.

Source: www.felixruckert.de