SimulacrumX
SimulacrumX
- Best solo – newcomer Förderpreis and 'Audience Award
at the SOLO|DUO FESTIVAL IN COLOGNE 2014
Jury: This solo shows a clear composition with space for performative quality. Ruben convinced by using simple means to visually complement the choreography.
- Finalist at the 'Best German Dance Solo' in Leipzig 2015
Choreography and Dance: Ruben Reniers
Music | Composition: Evelyn Saylor
the philosopher Lucretius posited that things shape their visibility by separating fine layers, simulacra, which leave imprints on our retina. Objects thus only concretize their shape by merging with our vision and are therefore only perceived by us as a kind of copy. But is this copy actually identical to the original? And if so, isn't actually all that we see only a copy? To what extent does our view, already manipulated by our environment and the people and media, manipulate the image? So if we can not believe our eyes anymore - maybe we can trace the authenticity of things with the periphery of our body. Can our intuition help to distinguish between appearance and reality, between what is and what we make off it? Are not we all a copy of our own original? At least in the eyes of the others?
10. Show
Solodance Festival in Ankara
at Cermodern Ankara
28.June 2019
9. Show
SOLOCOREOGRAFICO in Frankfurt, International Solo Dance Showcase
Theater Gallus (Frankfurt)
27. January 2018
7. Show
DOCK11 (Berlin) / rubarb dance & art
4. / 6. & 7. February 2016
6. Show
euro-leipzig 'The Best Dance Solo Germany'
5. Show
4. Show
Gdansk Dance Festival (Poland)
CLUB ZAK
09.06.2015 at 18:00
3. Show
soloduo festival budapest
Saturday 17.01.2015 20:00
2. Show
Solo/Duo Festival Cologne
Friday 26.09.2014 20:00
Premiere at the SOLOCHOREOGRAFICO Festival (Torino, It)
Teatro Vittoria Torino
Sunday 22.06.2014 20:00
Special Thanx to Nicole Kohlmann, Raffaele Irace, SOLOCOREOGRAFICO (Torino, Italy),
SOLO|DUO FESTIVAL- Barnes Crossing (Cologne, Germany)
MRC/ Karsten Bleymehl, Unser Studio Berlin and Atelier Frank Erler
A 'Ruben Reniers / rubarb dance & art' production
SINTA x DAHANA
after the success of their groundbreaking dance productions (AWAL and REQUIEM | MANGONGKAL HOLI), choreographer-dancer Ruben Reniers reunites with composer-performer Bilawa Ade Respati for a bold new creation, inspired by Sinta’s Trial by Fire from the Ramayana.
Fire is both a force of destruction and purification. As a storyteller, fire speaks of its deep connection to humanity through rituals, reflecting human emotions—passion, vigor, humor, and joy. In times when “darkness” predominates, fire has been a source of truth. Nowadays, in a "brighter" world, the extraction of energy translates to "power," whether in a capital, scientific, or political sense. This "power" challenges traditional notions of "truth." In such a world, can fire still reveal the “truth”? How do we measure the weight of our actions in a world beyond the gods and noble teachers?
SINTA x DAHANA ignites a dialogue that transcends boundaries between tradition and modernity, as well as between movement and sound. A visual experience that burns bright.
Premiere 06. June 2025 at DOCK11 in BERLIN
Part of - HIDUADREI - A Triple Bill Evening of Time, Fire, and Distance
Ruben Reniers: Choreography & Dance
Bilawa Ade Respati: Music Composition & Live Music
Photo: Carlos Collado
in Cooperation with:
DOCK 11 / ART
Haus der Indonesischen Kulturen Berlin
Theaterhaus Mitte
Tanzscouts Berlin
Special Thanx: Gideon E. Jessaijan
