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Photo: Marco Baass

Ruben Reniers


born in Jakarta, grew up in Rotterdam, where he completed a Bachelor's degree in contemporary dance at the prestigious Hogeschool voor de Kunsten / CODARTS. His career as a dancer led him as a member of the ensemble to several theaters in Germany. His long-term collaboration with Amanda Miller / Pretty Ugly Tanz Köln, as well as numerous collaborations with freelance choreographers, was one of the main impulses for his artistic development. Since 2009, Reniers has pursued his fascination with movement and composition through the creation of his own choreographic works.


He deals with his artistic ideas in three different formats, each with a different focus: rubarb dance & art was created in cooperation with the illustrator Barbara Steinitz, and focuses on the poetic interplay between energetic, body-oriented movements and the delicacy of paper art. The Freiraum Ensemble, Cologne, was funded by Reniers and draws its attention to the particular appeal of site-specific performances in extraordinary locations, while Ruben Reniers' productions are distinguished by their interdisciplinary character, which is due to the integration of other genres, primarily visual Art, comes. Reniers's interest in the medium of film / video is also reflected in the staging of dance films, e. g. his latest production Ephemeral Rooms, which will be presented for the first time at the 25th Quinzena de Dança de Almada / International Dance Festival.


In 2017, Reniers was choreographer for the theatrical production Medea at Schauspiel Dresden, directed by Christina Rast. This successful collaboration is currently being continued with the production Alice in Wonderland at the Residenztheater München. Renier's choreographies are generally characterized by a powerful, virtuoso and dynamic as well as delicate, differentiated and intimate style of movement, and have already received great national and international attention.


Recently DISTANZ has been chosen for the “Deutscher Theaterpreis DER FAUST Retrospektive 2020/21” among 66 other productions that were created till march 2021!


Renier's solo SimulacrumX was awarded the "Förderer Nachwuchs" and the Audience Awardat the VI. international soloDuo Dance Festival NRW, 2015.



PORTFOLIO


Die Liebe zu Drei Orangen

Oper by Sergej S. Prokofjew

Staatstheater Cottbus

27.01.2024

ZEROTH LAW

GAMUT INC

DEUTSCHE OPER BERLIN

27. - 29. 09.2023

Gesetz des Eises

VORPOMMERN TANZT AN

BRÖLLIN
Voraufführung*
Schloss Bröllin


GREIFSWALD

Vorplatz Pommersches Landesmuseum


SCHWERIN

Alter Garten, 19055


NEUSTRELITZ

Vorplatz Deutsche Tanzkompanie, Wilhelm-Riefstahl-Platz 7

Mi. 30. August 2023 um 19.30 Uhr

Sa. 2.September 2023 um 19.30 Uhr Premiere!
So. 3. 9. 2023 16.00 Uhr*

Mi. 6. September 2023 um 19.30 Uhr*
Do. 7.September 2023 um 19.30 Uhr
Sa. 9. September 2023 um 19.30 im Rahmen der Langen Nacht der Künste*
So. 10. September 2023 um 16.30 Uhr

Traces of Degas

(Dance Video Installation)

Haus Bastian / Staatliche Museum Berlin (SMB)

Haus Bastian / Verstärker

01.06. - 31.12.2023

Slow Violence III

rubarb dance & art

Staatstheater Braunschweig

20.02. - 28.02.2023

AWAL / BEGINNING

rubarb dance & art

Rumah Budaya Indonesia - Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen


17. -19.12.2022

Kokon

Kuss Quartett, Yui Kawaguchi, Bas Böttcher, Johannes Fischer

Sommerliche Musiktage Hitzacker 2022

30.07.2022

Lebendiger Tod

rubarb dance & art


Berlin- Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

20.05.22

R.U.R

GAMUT INC

Theater Delphi

Berlin

2022

Requiem | Mangongkal Holi

rubarb dance & art

DOCK11

Berlin

2021

Stadt Ohne Liebe

Theater.land


Die Andere Weltbühne

Strausberg

2021

Over the edge Club

GAMUT INC

Theater Delphi

Berlin

2021

DisTanz

Yui Kawaguchi &

Ruben Reniers


Monopol

Berlin

2020

Forgot To Remember

Remember To Forget


Evelyn Saylor & Ruben Reniers

Akademie der Künste (ADK) Berlin

2019

Venus & Adonis (OPER)

Tobias Ribisky &

Elvis Val

Oldenburgisches Staatstheater

Oldenburg

2019

Niemand stirbt in der Mitte des Lebens

Nico & The Navigators

Radialsystem Berlin |

BOZAR Brüssel

2019

displacement

Ruben Reniers

| rubarb dance & art

DOCK11

Berlin

2018

Expedition B |Sehnsuch nach Licht

Theaterschiff Maria Helena | RAG Stiftung


Saarbrücken, Duisburg, Mülheim, Oberhausen, Recklinghausen und Herne

2018

Alice in Wunderland

Residenztheater

Munich

2017

HERE I AM

Freiraum Ensemble

Cologne

2017

Medea


Staatsschauspiel Dresden


Dresden

2017

Der Dritte Raum   

Tafelhalle

Nürnberg


2017

SIMULACRUM X (PARTII)

Ruben Reniers

Berlin

2016

ZERO

Freiraum Ensemble

Cologne

2016

schrittweise

rubarb dance & art

Berlin

2016

exil

Freiraum Ensemble

Cologne

2015

Trunkintail (extended version) 

DOCK11

Berlin

2015

The Opening

NIBuu

Berlin

2014

Euphoria

Freiraum Ensemble

Cologne

2014

SimulacrumX

Ruben Reniers

Torino (IT)

2014

FREIraum

Freiraum Ensemble


Cologne

2013


Hangaufwind

rubarb dance & art

Cologne

2011

Recherche Mülheim

Ruben Reniers

Cologne

2010

In between us 

rubarb dance & art

Cologne

2009

Behind the wall

pretty ugly tanz köln

Cologne

2009

Sketches for a dream

pretty ugly tanz köln

Cologne

2008