Recording of Felix Ruckert’s choreography, a show derived from a workshop. 

Filmed at the Regard du Cygne, Paris, on November 12th, 1994.  

Remark by the videographer (2019): 

"I think I remember meeting Felix Ruckert through the dancer Joëlle Rollet. This recording was another opportunity for me to film bodies in motion, to try to grasp, through framing, the mechanics of choreography. It was most certainly Felix who asked me to film this recording of an outcome of a choreographic workshop." 

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

Arnold Pasquier was born in Paris in 1968. After studying visual arts and cinema, he made tests in Super 8 and video, in which he developed a world of filmed newspapers and fictions. At the age of twenty, he approaches contemporary dance and collaborates with choreographers as documentarist and dancer. This experience marks the realization of a work where dance holds an important place.
From 1997 to 1999, he was received as a resident artist at the Fresnoy (Tourcoing, France) where he designed the installation "C'est ici que j'avais des baisers" (1997-1999) and produced about twenty short films, four radio design workshops For France Culture and dance performances capturing. In 1999, he presented the show "C'est merveilleux" in the Grande Nef du Fresnoy. He is the author of numerous films (fiction, documentary, video art), staged shows, scenographies, radio broadcasts. His work is articulated at the crossroads of these different disciplines. Winner of a residence Villa Médicis Hors les Murs (outside the wall) in Sao Paulo in 2004, he dances for Julie Desprairies in "La danse en accès accès", "Vue sur la mer" and "Là commence le ciel". He co-signs with her the video-dance installation "Les 3 contents", the result of the residence of the choreographer at the Manufacture de Sèvres (France). 

Source: Website of the Compagnie des prairies  
More information https://arnoldpasquier.com