Workshop the Union of women of Slovakia
15 - 18 May at 9.30 - 14.30

Performances
18 and 19 May at 19.00 in the space of the Union of women of Slovakia, Štefánikova street

Felix Ruckert (Germany)

Studied dance in Berlin, Essen, Paris, and New York in years 1982-1992. He was a member of Pina Busch's Tanztheater Wuppertal in 1992-1994. He danced for various choreographers, among others Jean François Duroure, Mathilde Monnier, Charles Cré-Ange, or Wanda Golonka. Since 1994 he leads his own company, Compagnie Felix Ruckert. Having its home in Berlin, he developed a special relationship with Dock 11 theatre, where all the new projects are usually presented.
Ruckert's works often radically question the perception of live performance e.g. involving actively the spectator in the performance, or by performing a pure choreographic research.

Ring

Concept and choreography: Felix Ruckert
Live music: Christian Meyer, Ulrike Haage
Performers: Gilys Komova, Michaela Ottova and workshop participants

Ring
was first performed in Paris in February 1999, immediately causing a great controversy of opinions. Many of them were despising, many glorifying, but none without a personal trace. And that's exactly what this performance does: it gets personal.
The audience sitts in a circle of chairs; an equal number of dancers comes. For 40 minutes dancers interact with their partners out of the audience, mostly by word, touch and gesture. Then the roles are switched and the participants have a few minutes to be the ones who decide what happens next. The work thus offers a double glance for the public: upon the intimacy that is happening between the dancer and the spectator and upon the whole ritual that is taking place.

The performance is a result of five days long workshop during which participants learn the phrases, the order of the sequences and work on movement qualities and a very subtle sensations as well as precision, synchronization within the group, timing with an emphasis on how the material should be performed. Felix also guides the dancers through his own creative process to help them build their own material.