SimulacrumX
Modern dance solo (2014)
9′ 35” / 6′ (2 versions)
Choreography and Dance: Ruben Reniers
Music: Evelyn Saylor
Premiere: September 26, 2014, Solo/Duo Festival, Barnes Crossing, Cologne, Germany
January 17, 2015, Solo/Duo Festival, MOHA, Budapest, Hungary
June 9, 2015, Gdansk Dance Festival, Club Zak, Gdansk, Poland
July 3-5, 2015, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany
November 6 & 8, 2015, euro-scene Leipzig Festival, Schauspielhaus, Leipzig, Germany
February 4, 6, & 7, 2016, DOCK 11, Berlin, Germany
January 23 & 24, 2017, Tafelhalle, Nürnberg, Germany
January 27, 2018, Solocoreografico Festival, Theater Gallus, Frankfurt, Germany
June 28, 2019, SoloDans Festival, CerModern, Ankara, Turkey
A ‘Ruben Reniers / rubarb dance & art’ production
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?
Winner: 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’ Competition in Leipzig 2015
Evelyn Saylor 