Sunday, June 27 & Monday, June 28 at 6 pm
TVORNICA, Šubićeva 2
COMPAGNIE FELIX RUCKERT BERLIN, GERMANY
Secret Service

After studying dance in Berlin, Essen, Paris and New York, Felix Ruckert founded an international company of dancers, performers, musicians and artists in Berlin in 1994.

The company travels around the world with their own projects ranging from interactive experiences with the audience to installations or pieces of pure choreographic research. In his work Felix Ruckert questions the perception of live performance allowing the spectator to play an active role, to be addressed as an individual, and confronted with an intense and long-lasting emotional pressure.

Ruckert transforms, transposes and diverts the codes of everyday social activities into an artistic field and wide spectrum of performing directions. Strong concepts, well-thought out rules and elegant aesthetics give a clear frame to his shows.

Theatre for Ruckert is a communicative space where the cognitive capacities of the dancers, and also of the audience are exposed to pertinent challenge. Each of his projects is based on strong principles and produced through specific methods.

Secret Service is his latest interactive production that pushes the dance performance to its most extreme format to become the most private show in the world. Only curious, courageous and strong spectators are invited to this show. Protected by anonymity, accepting inner confidence, the spectator and his body become the subject of research and space for experiment, and through two levels of performance, guided by hands of experts, they reach unhindered an authentic sensation of motion.

People, like Ruckert who research such radical ways of making the border between spectator and performer more permeable in dance are very rare. A spectator in this ‘body lab’ discovers passion or desire and understands that each experience is an encounter with himself.

There are no spectators in Secret Service; blind folded a spectator becomes a dancer. Receiving information on motion, odour, hearing and touch, s/he delivers herself with confidence to a world of unknown limbs and their pliant physys.
Intimacy, sensuality and erotic value define the field of research, pervading the spectator on a completely individual trip through spaces of tactile pleasures where the pain also has a special place.

http://www.felixruckert.de/