RuBarb Dance & Art

AWAL / BEGINNING [DOCUMENTATION / EXCERPT]

AWAL / BEGINNING [DOCUMENTATION / EXCERPT] A PERFORMANCE INSTALLATION OF DANCE WITH LIVE MUSIC ABOUT STARTING OVER AND CONTINUING ON How can we regain hope in the face of personal loss and existential threat? Where do we find new sources of joy and promise for the future? We fall down and pick ourselves back up over and over again. What is this perpetual motion that drives us ever forward? rubarb dance & art explores these questions through dance, music, and visual art, drawing inspiration from traditional Indonesian music and dance. Working in international collaboration, the ensemble transforms the House of Indonesian Cultures in Berlin into a laboratory of synergies in which visual and sensory experiences overlap. The performance installation unfolds within diverse spaces, opening up new perspectives and auditory experiences. A Phantasmagoric Gamelan Frenzy / Richard Pettifer In “AWAL / BEGINNING” created by choreographer Ruben Reniers and collaborators at the Rumah Budaya Indonesia Berlin, an explosion of performative pedagogy blends traditional and contemporary choreography in a phantasmagoric performance event taking place over three days from 16 to 18 December 2022. The space is pushed and shoved around, things occur in slow motion and fast forward – and moments begin to gather power and swirl, as dissonance becomes unison, and technique gives way to informality. It’s a triumph of collaboration and resourcefulness from an assembly of artists who seem at the peak of their powers, given the space to breathe and exchange. The result is infectious and marvellous, blending intimacy and precision in a kind of transformative conversation, shared in glimpses over an epic, 2-hour evening. PREMIERE Dec 16, 2022, 7.30 pm MORE PERFORMANCES Dec 17 & 18, 2022, 7.30 pm FREE ADMISSION Donations are welcome via Paypal VENUE Rumah Budaya Indonesia Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Theodor-Francke-Str. 11 12099 Berlin CONCEPT, ARTISTIC DIRECTION,CHOREOGR

TOUR: REQUIEM | MANGONGKAL HOLI a musical dance performance with moving images by @rubarb_dance_and_art_ “In deeply moving solos, they give heartfelt expression to their pain and their losses— sometimes with an intensity that calls to mind German expressionist dance. But even these echoes have their justification in this sensitively balanced, soothingly beautiful, inventive long work. At its end, one is left with the sense of having experienced a healing, unifying ritual, an art event that draws its strength for the future from reformulating the commonality of all human existence”. Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung @theater_im_pfalzbau 06.05.2023 TICKETS: https://tickets.vibus.de/00000000000000/shop/vstdetails.aspx?VstKey=10013700502160000 Artistic Direction / Choreography: Ruben Reniers . Co-Choreography, Dance, Performance: Rebecca Jefferson, Annapaola Leso/Chia-Ying Chiang, Sean Roel Nederlof/Yuya Fujinami, Ruben Reniers, Melli Müller . Composition / Live Music: Konstantin Heuer, Bilawa Respati, Biliana Voutchkova / Mari Sawada . Stage / Puppet Theater / Live Drawing: Barbara Steinitz . Costume: Carola Volles, Juliane Längin . Light Design: Emese Csornai . Graphic Design: Studio Workshop | Saira Hussain . Artistic Collaboration: Melli Müller . Artistic Advise: Inang Lena Simanjuntak . Photo: Carlos Collado / Eyes on Performing Arts . Video: Marco Baass . Video Edit Performance/Trailer/Extended: Matthias Albrecht . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ ......... .......... ........... ............ ...........… ……………. @rebecca.jefferson.395 @melli.mue.ller @yuya.fujinami @alismaei_22 @rrubrik @sastraswara @__.koscha @bilianavoutchkova #barbarasteinitz #emesecsornai #julianelängin @carolavolles @studio_workshop @marcobaassfotografie @carloscolladophoto @eyes_on_performing_arts @schleunigstentschleunigung @dashotel_berlin @theater_im_pfalzbau @rbi.berlin @schlossbroellin @movinbroellin @fondsdarste

#REPRISE REQUIEM | MANGONGKAL HOLI 11.08.-14.08.2022 @DOCK11 TICKETS: https://dock11-berlin.de/theater/programm/spielplan/requiem-mangongkal-holi “In deeply moving solos, they give heartfelt expression to their pain and their losses— sometimes with an intensity that calls to mind German expressionist dance. But even these echoes have their justification in this sensitively balanced, soothingly beautiful, inventive long work. At its end, one is left with the sense of having experienced a healing, unifying ritual, an art event that draws its strength for the future from reformulating the commonality of all human existence”. Wiebke Hüster, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung� Artistic Direction / Choreography: Ruben Reniers�Co-Choreography, Dance, Performance: Rebecca Jefferson, Annapaola Leso, Sean Roel Nederlof, Ruben Reniers, Melli Müller�Composition / Live Music: Konstantin Heuer, Bilawa Respati, Biliana Voutschkova / Mari Sawada�Stage / Puppet Theater / Live Drawing: Barbara Steinitz�Costume: Carola Volles, Juliane Längin�Light Design: Emese Csornai�Graphic Design: Studio Workshop | Saira Hussain�Artistic Collaboration: Melli Müller�Artistic Advise: Inang Lena Simanjuntak�Photo: Carlos Collado Video: Marco Baass Video Edit Performance: Matthias Albrecht . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... ........ ......... .......... ........... @Rebecca Jefferson @Sean Roel Nederlof @Annapaola Leso @Carola Volles @Konstantin Heuer @Biliana Voutchkova @Studio Workshop @Melli Mueller @Marco Baass @Carsten Zoltan @Matthias Albrecht @Carlos Collado @Eyes on Performing Arts @Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen - Rumah Budaya Indonesia @Schloss Broellin e.V. @movin-bröllin @Ruben Reniers / rubarb dance & art @Ruben Reniers @Fonds Darstellende Künste #TakeHeart #Wiederaufnahmeförderung #InangLenaSimanjuntak #JulianeLängin #EmeseCsornai #AnnapaolaLeso #BilawaRespati #bilianavoutchkova #BarbaraSteinitz

Film Screening Road To REQUIEM | MANGONGKAL HOLI by Marco Baass at Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen - Rumah Budaya Indonesia - Berlin Sunday 07. August 18:00 | Free Admission.
 In 2021, rehearsals for Mangongkal Holi took place. For one summer, dancers, musicians, costume designers, stage and lighting designers came together under the artistic direction of Ruben Reniers to create a dance performance. The result was an intercultural work that explores the themes of death and mourning, as well as life and joy, from a Western perspective and, in contrast, from an Indonesian one. This process was accompanied by Marco Baaß with the camera. In short interviews, the participants describe how they personally dealt with the topic and how they developed their own approach. But the film also describes how different artists have found together and in their joint creative process to a creative family.
 #Film #Screening #Dance #Music #FigureTheatre #Behind the Scenes Artistic Direction / Choreography: Ruben Reniers
 Co-Choreography, Dance, Performance: Rebecca Jefferson, Annapaola Leso, Sean Roel Nederlof, Ruben Reniers, Melli Müller 
Composition / Live Music: Konstantin Heuer, Bilawa Respati, Biliana Voutschkova/Mari Sawada 
Stage / Puppet Theater / Live Drawing: Barbara Steinitz
 Costume: Carola Volles, Juliane Längin
Light Design: Emese Csornai
 Graphic Design: Studio Workshop | Saira Hussain
Artistic Collaboration: Melli Müller
 Artistic Advise: Inang Lena Simanjuntak
 Photo: Carlos Collado Video: Marco Baass Video Edit Performance: Matthias Albrecht „In deeply moving solos, they give heartfelt expression to their pain and their losses— sometimes with an intensity that calls to mind German expressionist dance. But even these echoes have their justification in this sensitively balanced, soothingly beautiful, inventive long work. At its end, one is left with the sense of having experienced a healing, unifying ritual, an art event that draws i

REQUIEM | MANGONGKAL HOLI [OFFICIAL TRAILER]

REQUIEM | MANGOGKAL HOLI [OFFICIAL TRAILER] Coming Back Save the Dates 11.08 - 14.08.2022 at DOCK 11 !!! . .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... REQUIEM | MANGONKAL HOLI
 a musical dance performance with moving images by Ruben Reniers / rubarb dance & art It is the confrontation with the two natural forces of our existence, birth and death, which is placed in the center of this musical dance performance. Based on the collision of two very personal events, the death of his father and the birth of his daughter, dancer and choreographer Ruben Reniers focuses in his current artistic work on phenomena related to death. As a native Indonesian who grew up in the Netherlands, he is interested in Indonesian as well as European funeral rituals and farewell ceremonies – and how the different concepts of connecting the living and the dead are manifested in the dances, movements, touches and voices of those who mourn. Together with an international team of dancers, musicians and a drawing artist, he embarks on a quest to artistically bring together the different approaches of these cultures and of each one of us. Artistic Direction / Choreography: Ruben Reniers
 Co-Choreography, Dance, Performance: Rebecca Jefferson, Annapaola Leso, Sean Roel Nederlof, Ruben Reniers
 Composition / Live Music: Konstantin Heuer, #BilawaRespati, Biliana Voutchkova Official Stage / Puppet Theater / Live Drawing: #BarbaraSteinitz
 Costume: Carola Volles, #JulianeLängin
 Light Design: Emese Csornai
 Graphic Design: Studio Workshop| Saira Hussain
 Artistic Collaboration: Melli Mueller Artistic Advise: #InangLenaSimanjuntak
 Video Documentation: Marco Baass
 Photo: Carlos Collado Video Edit: Matthias Albrecht Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, as part of Neustart Kultur, #TakeAction Förderprogramm Tanz Cooperation partner: Rumah Budaya | Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin, schloss broellin e.V

#DISPLACEMENT & #InteractiveDisplacementExperience« Saturday 17. October @gallustheater.ffm #Frankfurt Too tall, too small, too fat, too thin, too light, too dark, too poor, too rich, too square, too hip, too turned in, too turned out, too twisted or too wound up – do you also feel every now and then at the wrong place, in the wrong time, in the wrong body or even all at once? in-place/displace/ replace, a dance piece by Ruben Reniers, deals with this phenomenon, with a focus on physical enrollmentand its changeability. How far can, will or should one bend to adapt to one’s environment? Who determines what is appropriate and inappropriate? And does the individual authenticity perhaps fall by the wayside with all such ad- justments? #choreography: Ruben Reniers #dance: @nora_vladiguerova und Ruben Reniers #stage: Barbara Steinitz #livemusic #composition: @evelynsaylor #dramaturgy #livetext: @nicolekohlmann72 Kohlmann #host: @Melli Müller #graphicdesign @studio_workshop #photo: @carloscolladophoto Funded & Co-operation Partner: #Mapping Dance Berlin| Zeitgenössischer Tanz Berlin e.V. | @tanzbuero @schlossbroellin PAF 2018 rubarb dance & art @eden_dock_11 @rbi.berlin

DISPLACEMENT - 17.OCT. 2020 - 20:00 GALLUS THEATER FRANKFURT

#DISPLACEMENT #InteractiveDisplacementExperience« #Frankfurt Premiere #Saturday #17.10.2020 #20:00 Too tall, too small, too fat, too thin, too light, too dark, too poor, too rich, too square, too hip, too turned in, too turned out, too twisted or too wound up – do you also feel every now and then at the wrong place, in the wrong time, in the wrong body or even all at once? in-place/dis-place/ replace, the new dance piece by Ruben Reniers, deals with this phenomenon, with a focus on physical enrollment and its changeability. How far can, will or should one bend to adapt to one’s environment? Who determines what is appropriate and inappropriate? And does the individual authenticity perhaps fall by the wayside with all such ad- justments? #choreography: Ruben Reniers #dance: Nora Vladiguerova & Ruben Reniers #stage: #BarbaraSteinitz #livemusic #composition: Evelyn Saylor #dramaturgy #livetext: Nicole Kohlmann #host: #MelliMüller #photo: Carlos Collado

FORGOT TO REMEMBER | REMEMBER TO FORGET

ONLINE STREAM at Soundance Festival Berlinl Sa. 27. June 2020 at 19:00 LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FU7RXREnek&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3DcD-ozJ5ld46fZ5LsY_gEmUbH7oagtfXaMwxKwUctiItJwcpPRp3rVqM Donations are Welcome Subject: Support FORGOT TO REMEMBER | REMEMBER TO FORGET Artists Ruben Reniers IBAN: DE35 2501 0030 0743 9043 01 BIC : PBNKDEFF PayPal https://paypal.me/rubenreniers

“MAD WORLD” Today we would have our third “In between us” show at @eden_dock_11 #rubarbdanceandart

TRUNKINTAIL

Today We would have our Second #trunkintail show in Images - Neue Choreografien Curated by Stephan Ehrlich at Pfefferberg Theater We keep a #DisTanz! Hopefully see you all next time!!! #Choreography: Ruben Reniers #Dance: Rebecca Jefferson & Ruben Reniers #Costume: Karin Rosemann #Soundcollage: Ruben Reniers #Dramaturgy Advice: Lionel Ménard #Choreographic Advice: Nicole Kohlmann #Video/Kamera: Natalia Mikhailova #Photos: Carlos Collado & Philine Sollmann

#DisTanz

#DisTanz videofootage #WilliamColemann Ruomi Lee-Hampel video edit Yui Kawaguchi official Music Beethoven Kuss Quartett Mouth Protection Design: Cris Is Supported by Monopol Special Thanx Nico and the Navigators

HAPPY EASTER thanx to the woman at my side who supports me with so much care and patience in these weird times at HOME !!! A big thanx to Nico and the Navigators #Force&Freedom, Kuss Quartett Yui Kawaguchi official ,#JanaKuss, Beethoven 250, BOZAR Schwetzinger SWR Festspiele Konzerthaus Dortmund Eggs,#Easter, radialsystem