Felix Ruckert / Ulrike Haage / Christian Meyer
"RING"
30 & 31 July 2024
20.30 H
Muffathalle
22,- EUR / 12,- EUR / 30,- EUR supporting price
barrier-free
“RING is a choreographic reflection on contact and closeness, seduction and desire, simulation and authenticity, on the unpredictability, but also the mechanics of emotions. The production, created in 1999, breaks down the usual boundaries between the dancers and the audience and established an aesthetic form of theater for which the term “immersive” was coined only several years later.
21 dancers enter into a dialogue with the audience, sharing attention and physical affection. They create intense feelings of belonging and of being perceived which are immediately broken by the coincidence of the encounters and the inexorably progressing choreographic structure. How relative are the encounters that are perceived as unique at the moment? And what unexpected intensity can interactions develop, even though they always follow the same pattern? The dancers' action loops are accompanied live by Ulrike Haage and Christian Meyer with grand piano, electric guitar and minimalist electronic sounds.
Felix Ruckert is a dancer, choreographer, conceptual artist and curator. For him, the art of touch and a philosophy of sensual communication are central. In his works, he devotes himself in particular to the physical body of the audience, which he often actively involves in his performance design.
Christian Meyer is a composer, musician, sound designer, photographer and video artist. Ulrike Haage is a composer, pianist and radio play director. She writes film music and publishes solo albums. Together with Christian Meyer, she produced the CD “Stills”. She has received several awards, including the Albert Mangelsdorff Prize, the Dokfilmmusikpreis, the Musikautorenpreis and the Günther Eich Prize.
Staging, choreography: Felix Ruckert
Music: Ulrike Haage, Christian Meyer
Production management: Heike Albrecht
Funding: Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETZ Guest Performance Fund for Dance, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Ministries of Culture and the Arts of the federal states, funded as part of the project "Lebendiges Archiv - Living Archive" of the Cultural Department of the City of Munich