Ruth Rebekka Hansen (DK)
Ripe Body
PREMIERE: Who is looking at whom in the tall, transparent and mirror-covered box? The audience gets up close to Ruth Rebekka Hansen's living sculpture as she seductively explores gender and sexuality while redefining our understanding of femininity.
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RIPE BODY is a genre-defying solo dance performance in two parts – an interactive installation followed by a mesmerising party with live music.
The two-part performance invites the audience into a feminine universe that is as sparkling as it is carnal. Through the body, choreographer and performer Ruth Rebekka Hansen seeks to put a kaleidoscopic filter on the gendered that both deconstructs and redefines the feminine.
In the first part of the performance, the body becomes a living flesh sculpture in an almost four metre high, transparent box with a mirror-covered ceiling and floor. Wearing towering stilettos, different physical forms are explored in a feminine body that challenges the power structure between the observer and the observed. In the panopticon of the mirror room, the dancer’s and the audience’s gaze is constantly cast back and forth, and the question quickly becomes who is really looking at whom.
In the second part of the performance, RIPE BODY switches gears with a hypnotising, explosive performance. The performance is again delivered by Ruth Rebekka Hansen, who this time moves in the box to pulsating live music. Musician Lauge Heebøll sets the tones with a voice that embraces both the melancholic darkness and the inviting light. In a landscape of heavy beats and glittering costumes, the second part of RIPE BODY erases the relationship between performer and audience, inviting a celebration of a femininity that holds more of everything. The result is fluid, seductive and festive.
