#  Spring Tour 2023: I am teaching and performing with Yael Stormborn (L.A.) at

– Serrat(u)s, Zürich, March 18 & 19, 2023

– Prague Shibari Festival, March, 24 – 26, 2023

– Athens Shibari, March, 31 – April, 2, 2023

– La Ronronnerie, Marseille, April, 7 – 9, 2023

# Meet me at the IKSK – Institut für Körperforschung und sexuelle Kultur (Institute for Body Research and Sexual Culture)! In January/February I teach or perform there almost every day.  More…

# IKSK on FetLife! // IKSK on Instagram!

# EURIX – The European Rigger& Model Exchange No XXII will happen April, 17 – 22, 2023 at Säälchen, Holzmarkt 25, Berlin. The program is complete, registration is open. More…

# Next KONK is May, 15 – 21, 2023, registration is open!

# The New Civilization Training, our famous Fasting Retreat will happen May 26 – June 4, 2023. More…

# xplore Berlin will happen July, 28 -30, 2023! Ticket Sale is open!

RECENT APPEARANCES, INTERVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

# Feb, 2023, THE PERCEPTION OF THE ELDER AND HOW TO LOOK THROUGH THE SKIN , a video portrait by Sergio Ricardez

# Oct, 12 – 16, 2022, teaching at Schwelle Festival in Zell am See, Austria, three workshops: “About Flow”,  “Dominance& Submission – Intentions” and “My beautiful Sex Life”

# “In deinen Armen sterben” Performance at Anomalie Art Club, April 27 & 28, 2022

# xplore Roma 2021, new picture gallery here…

# Interview with THE ICONIST, January, 2022

# Talk at URANIA, Berlin, 21.10.2021 in the frame of SEX EDUCATION by Brenda Strohmaier !!!

# Interview with SEPARÉE MAGAZIN, February, 2021

# Pics from ROPE SPIRIT XIII Shibari Festival in Prague –> performing with Saara Rei!

# 31.07.21// Deutschlandfunk Kultur  //  Radio sendung zum IKSK Sommerfest!

# Mein Text “Eine kurze Geschichte der sexuellen Liberalisierung in Berlin” ist erschienen online bei XelK Magazin. Check it out!

# BDSM für Anfänger “5 vor Sex” Podcast von Brenda Strohmaier mit Sanya Alaya, Karina Kehlet Lins, Felix Ruckert / März 2021

# “Fremd ist dein Kleid”, is a new performance / installation, created for eX…it!’19 International Dance & Butoh Festival, Schloss Bröllin, August 16&17, 2019 –> see video documentary

# Neues Interview online: Sex Education #4: BDSM für Dummys Brenda Strohmaier im Gespräch mit  Felix Ruckert

# Just finished a conceptual text (in collaboration with Anna Mense, thank you so much!) for the creation of a Institut für Körperforschung und sexuelle Kultur in Berlin (in german only).

# My latest album here:  “Shylix – I Wanna Be A Horse”                         

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# New article on xplore Berlin 2019 out now on sluttish.us!

# “Wie war das Festival der Lust?” Podcast von Yvonne Peglow zur xplore 2019

# Some pictures from xplore Barcelona 2019, here…

# What is xplore? Promotional video clip here…  Please share!

# Interview with me about EURIX by Vanina Tsoneva/ Sluttish from Oct 2018, just online now!

# Report on xplore Berlin 2018 – The Transformative Power of the Erotic by Karina Kehlet Lins online now…!

# Report on xplore Berlin 2018 – The Continuity of Sexual Freedom in a Once Liberal City by Jeanne Philippe online now.

# A video of my most recent lecture/ performance (The Living Room Tour) here: CREATING SEX POSITIVE SPACES (Berlin, May, 12, 2018)

# Some excerpts of ENGENHO (2008) my choreography for the Ballett of Teatro Castro Alvez, San Salvador da Bahia, Brazil are online now!

# The xplore Berlin 2017 Symposium is on line now:
“BDSM Sagacity: embodying complexity“ by Dr. Sacha Kagan
“Die Realisierung des Imaginären und die Irrealisierung des Realen …“ by Prof.Dr. Regine Herbrik
“Pearl Diving: Somaesthetics and Art” by Marius Presterud
“Being violently ill” by Dr. Nathalie Blanc
“The Sex-Positive Movement in the Context of Neo-Liberalism” by Dr. Peter Banki

# Very entertaining RADIO PODCAST about xplore Berlin 2017 online now! With 12 interviews english/ german of xplore participants

# Some pictures from my performance “Swamp” with Anna Noctuelle at Anatomie Studio London, Oct, 20, 2017 !

# A full length video of MESSIAH GAME (2005) is online now, one of my essential choreographies  I would say, I still like most of it. Check it out!

# Interview about Felix’ practice of  Shibari / Japanese Rope Bondage, recorded by Shakti Sundari at Taste of Love Festival, January 2017 in Byron Bay, Australia, on youtube now!

# Measuring the Temperature of Dance in Berlin, interview by Diego Agulló; Felix talks about dance and sex in Berlin, July, 16, 2017

PAST EVENTS

2021

# 10.- 12 September 2021/ xplore Festival Roma

# 23.&24. 8. 2021: Teaching at KörperlICH Themenwoche in Velbert/ NRW.

# 26.6. 2021: Performing with Saara Rei in Prague at Rope Spirit XIII Festival.

2020

Due to the Corona pandemic I had a long pause this year….

# First event in 2020 was xplore Roma, Sept, 4-6, 2020….

# During the winter lock down  20/21 I started producing large-format tapestries at IKSK. Initially motivated by the intention to decorate the bare, white walls in the institute, then more and more to appease my creative rage and to give meaning and colour to these long, grey winter days. More…

2019

# August 16&17: “Fremd ist dein Kleid”, a new performance / installation at eX…it!’19 International Dance & Butoh Festival, Schloss Bröllin

# Aug 8- 17: Teaching and choreographing at the eX…it!! Festival, 7th International dance eXchange and performance festival on butoh and contemporary dance

# xplore festivals 2019:  xplore Barcelona June 14-16 / xplore Roma June 28-30 / xplore Berlin July 26-28

# Lecture Creating Sex Positive Spaces and Shibari workshop in Athens (GR) for AthenShibari , May 24-26, at “The 14th day” Studio on May, 28

# Lecture & workshop Creating Sex Positive Spaces at UNCENSORED FESTIVAL, London, May, 18.

# EURIX – European Rigger&Model Exchange No XIV / April, 2019 at -> Säalchen, Holzmarkt, Berlin.

# In 2019 KONK weekends and MEGA KONK weeks every month. Sexpositive spaces for learning, experimentation and play, open for all!

 2018

# EURIX – The European Rigger& Model Exchange happening twice in spring and automn 2018, at Säalchen, Holzmarkt, Berlin. As part of the event we are also developping ROPE ARTISTS INTL., a performance platform for innovative rope bondage performances.

# xplore festivals 2018:  xplore Barcelona, May, 25-27, 2018 // xplore Roma, June, 15-17  // xplore Berlin, July, 27-29 // xplore Copenhagen Aug, 3-5  More here: xplore

May 2018 The weekend ULTRA KONK (Kink and Superfood, May, 18-21) combined Conscious Kink with Conscious Eating&Cooking and lasted four days. KONK weekends were organized once a month from January to December.

 Jan – May 2018  My Living Room Tour brought me to the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Denmark and numerous places in Germany. Thanks to all the people that hosted me! After more than fourty lectures on CREATING SEX POSITIVE SPACES  all over Europe I did a final date in Berlin at Dock 11, on May, 12.  A Video of the Lecture is on line, here !

2017

# DARKNESS & LIGHT –  a schwelle7 weekend on Dec 8 – 10 in Jana and Philipp’s beautiful house at Bötzsee, near Berlin.

# UNDOGMATIC ROPE at Anatomie Studio, London, with Sophia Rose, Oct 21&22, 2017

# Felix and Paola Calvo showed the schwelle7 movie VIOLENTLY HAPPY at GENDER BENDER Festival, Bologna, November, 3-5. Felix also did a lecture on SEXPOSITVE SPACES and taught a workshop called BISEXUALS ARE BETTER LOVERS!

# Felix performed and presented at Rome Bondage Week, Sept, 13 -17, Rome, Italy

# EURIX – European Rigger&Model Exchange No 11 / September, 18 – 24, 2017 at -> Alte Börse Marzahn, Berlin.

# Curating and presenting at xplore Berlin, July, 14-16, 2017

# Curating and presenting at xplore Copenhagen, August, 4-6

# Felix im Fuchsbau – KINK AND SUPERFOOD, June, 9 -11, near Bern, Switzerland. Organized by RouseRenoir, three days with an intense workshop program, a play party and lots of free space for free play and experimentation, plus delicious meals and snacks, prepared with love!

# Lecture performance by Felix Ruckert, Rope Bondage and some footage of schwelle7 and earlier dance works at GALLERIA MONDRIAN SUITE, Rome, Italy, June, 17 &18

# Curating and presenting at  xplore Roma, June 23- 25

# May, 1 from 12am to 6pm, workshop Liquid Body – Hard Stuff at Dock 11 Berlin. A one day workshop focussing on contact improvisation and physical communication.

# From May, 2 to May 12 Felix  facilitates a daily Professional Training in Contemporary Dance at Dock 11, Berlin, Monday to Friday, 10 00 – 11 30.

# More than Knots – workshop Rope Bondage and BDSM at KINBAKU LOUNGE Copenhagen, April 14 – 16.

# Felix is teaching and performing Rope Bondage at the infamous MOSCOW KNOT FESTIVAL, April 21 – 27.

# March, 20 – 26, 2017 / EURIX No X / spring 2017 at Alte Börse, Berlin – Marzahn

# March, 30 – April, 9, 2017 / THE NEW CIVILIZATION TRAINING – 9 days in a contemporary monastery –  Schlüsshof am Lychensee, near Berlin / an intense fasting retreat with Micha Stella and Felix Ruckert

# VIOLENTLY HAPPY, Paola Calvo’s documentary about schwelle7 is programmed in cinemas in Germany. Here a review: “Theatre of Intimacy and Pain” by Shelagh Rowan-Legg (in English)

#Felix is teaching and performing BERLIN BONDAGE at Arts Yard, Bangalow, NSW, Australia Jan, 14th

# Felix teaching at the The Taste of Love Festival in Byron Bay, NSW and at the Festival of Really Good Sex, Sydney, NSW, Australia.