Workshop/ Participatory Performance / Play Space
House of Play is proud to present this collaboration with Felix Ruckert. For the past 20 years, he has been a leading force and inspiration in creating sex-positive events and spaces across Europe. His work seamlessly blends rope bondage, conscious sexuality, choreography, bodywork, and various art forms into a constantly evolving exploration. He is the creator of influential recurring festivals through many years such as Eurix and Xplore, as well as the legendary Schwelle 7 and the current IKSK in Berlin. Felix's work is a big part of the groundwork that House of Play is built upon.
This event is a workshop, it is performance art and a play space, all in one. The event is part of Felix’ research on the creation of „Magical Spaces“: you are invited to come and to co-create a touching and exciting group experience, which also will be spectacularly beautiful to observe, if you prefer to stay on the sidelines - which is absolutely possible!
The princess offers you an opportunity to meet yourself and others on a profoundly human level, letting go of shame and fear, of superficial behaviour, pretentious talk and make belief.
You are invited to share with others the core of yourself, your sexual body, your sexual identity, your sexual story. You are invited to dive deep into your sexual history and explore all aspects of your past, present and even future sex life. The method introduces a conscious approach to negative emotions, to embody those emotions and to express them in a performative way, navigating a self induced state of trance. The process will provide you with a new perspective on yourself and change your relationship to others as well.
You will find that no sexuality is the same, and that fantasies out of the norm and kinky desires are much more common than what you would expect. You might experience the pain and frustration that often is strongly linked to the sexual body, and you might allow yourself to accept and welcome these negative aspects and transform them. Despite being conditioned by living in a sex-negative, patriarchal society and despite the fact that our collective bodymind has suffered from thousands of years of indoctrination, you might also discover how surprisingly easy it is often, to let go of mental restrictions and physical inhibitions and to find joy, pleasure and beauty within yourself.
Felix will mainly use her 7 qualities for sex positive spaces to create a score that provides a field of intense personal experience and encounter. These qualities represent essential tools for artistic expression, but function as well as instruments in navigating sex positive spaces, in exploring physical contact and safely negotiating any form of sensual or sexual encounter.
The central emotions that will be explored in this score are fear and shame. The fear to be yourself, the fear to be judged, the fear to expose yourself, the fear to be too much or not enough. The shame you feel about your body, your sexuality, your fantasies, your incompetences, your weaknesses and flaws.
The score allows you to step back and observe yourself with kindness and humour. It will be a bit frightening, yet will feel very liberating in the end.
You will come out of the experience with more self acceptance, more power and grace, more love for yourself and your sexual existence in this world.
WHO IS THIS FOR
For this weekend, we recommend some prior experience navigating sex-positive spaces and, ideally, also experience with embodied self-development practices.
The weekend is open to all genders, bodies, sexual orientations and partner constellations. You can come alone or with one or more partners. We operate in a sex- and emotional-inclusive space, where various forms of sensual and sexual expression are welcome, provided that everyone involved consents. We deeply respect your personal boundaries and you are not expected to engage in any forms of communication or interaction that you are uncomfortable with.
Every exercise is an invitation to explore, not a demand. The exercises are often practical, physical, and hands-on. To provide a wide variety of experiences, we frequently invite you to do exercises in different combinations with different people. These can be same-gender or mixed-gender, and we encourage you to be open to working with any gender and person during the exercises since it is our experience that this gives the best possibilities for collective co-creation and flow. You may choose to only play with your partner(s) if that is what you prefer.
DRESSCODE
Throughout the workshop we encourage you to wear something that makes you feel comfortable and allows you to move. For parts of the weekend we invite you to bring clothes or items that make you feel sexy.
WHAT TO BRING
Bring your own food or buy it in the surrounding area. It is not possible to cook at the venue, but there is a microwave.
Bring a water bottle and thermos cup with a lid and a towel/sheet for the play session.
TIME
March 14th - 16th, 2025
Friday 19-22
Saturday 11-01
Sunday 11-16
PRICE AND TICKETS
Members: 2.200 kr
Non-members 2750 kr
If you are a student, on welfare, or for other reasons have a low income, write to us on info@houseofplay.dk about a discount. We also offer a social discount on memberships.
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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.
More: http://felixruckert.de/