RIPE BODY is a genre-bending solo performance in two parts: an interactive installation followed by a mesmerising party with live music. The two parts of the performance invite 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 a four metre high, transparent box with a mirrored ceiling and floor, the body in the first part of the performance is a living flesh sculpture. Wearing towering stilettos, Ruth Rebekka Hansen explores different physical forms 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 cast back and forth, and the question quickly becomes who is really looking at whom.
In the second part of the performance, Ruth Rebekka Hansen switches gears and delivers a mesmerising, explosive performance 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, RIPE BODY invites you to celebrate a femininity that holds more of everything. The result is fluid, seductive and festive.
About the artists:
Danish choreographer and performer Ruth Rebekka Hansen will premiere her first full-length performance RIPE BODY at Roskilde Festival in July 2024, after which it will tour the new national network for dance and choreography developed by Dansehallerne, Bora Bora, Teater Momentum and Aaben Dans with support from the Bikuben Foundation.
Ruth Rebekka Hansen’s work as a choreographer and dancer moves in the intersections between dance, theatre, visual art and live performance. After graduating from the Ballet Academy Stockholm in 2018, she has worked nationally and internationally with Falk Richter, Gunilla Lind, Lara Osten, Jernej Bizják, Thomas Eisenhardt and DeLeón Company, among others. In 2023, Ruth was selected as Artist of the Year in Aabent Rum, an artistic development programme organised and curated by Aaben Dans.
After releasing three singles, Lauge Heebøll is finding his musical voice and his debut album will be released in late 2024.
