Henning Rübsam
Henning Rübsam (* in Marburg ) is a choreographer and dancer who lives in New York City . He is the artistic director of the dance company Sensedance , a permanent choreographer of the Hartford City Ballet and a lecturer at the Juilliard School .
Life
Rübsam was born in Marburg, where he received his first ballet lessons at the age of five. He studied with André Doutreval in Kassel, at the Hamburg Opera Ballet School and received a BFA degree in dance from The Juilliard School. For several summers he studied at the International Summer Academy of Dance in Cologne .
After moving to New York at a young age, Martha Hill and Elizabeth Keen were among his mentors. As a student at the Juilliard School he took classical Spanish dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive course at the School of American Ballet , performed as a Faun in the Nijinsky - Debussy ballet, played a leading role in a dance film at the Sundance Institute , where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen , and went on an international tour with the Limón Dance Company.
After graduating, he founded his own ensemble Sensedance and continued to dance with other choreographers, namely Duncan Macfarland, Murray Louis and, in particular, Alwin Nikolais . Rübsam found his next mentor in Beverly Schmidt Blossom, whose works he performed after Nikolais' death. His interest in early modern dance led to guest appearances with repertoire ensembles in works by Isadora Duncan , Doris Humphrey and Anna Sokolow .
His early work Schubert: Lieder (1991) and his epic solo Sand zu Chopin (1993) owe influences from José Limón , but his independent handwriting was visible early on, as Rübsam was able to create melodies in motion that chat and debate with the music instead of reflect them. Rübsam appeared as a guest dancer with a large number of contemporary choreographers and used his own company as an experimental space for ideas, ranging from the arrangement of biblical stories to live accompaniment by a 27-member choir at St. Markus Church in Carissimis Jephte to visceral movement experiments in one evolutionary safari entitled Dolphins and Antelopes (1996). For this, as well as for the other works Moonpaths (1998), Dinner is West (2005) and Tenancy (2011), he commissioned compositions from his fellow student at the Juilliard School Beata Moon . In addition to Moon, he worked with numerous composers and musicians, including Ricardo Llorca and Leslie Wildman, as well as designers from various art subjects, e. B. Fabio Toblini.
Awards
Rübsam's many honors include a Jerome L. Greene Fellowship, a Lincoln Center Fellowship, a Manhattan Spirit Award for "best male dancer" in 1997, a choreography award from Stephens College in 2000, an award for joining Dancers Responding to AIDS in 2004 and Bergen Community College's Major Artist Award in 2009, presented to a dancer for the first time.
Stage, film, advocacy & journalism
Rübsam also works in the theater and opera both as a choreographer and director. He has been a guest choreographer and lecturer in ballet companies, contemporary dance companies and universities in North and South America as well as Australasia and Europe. Rübsam was the first speaker on the topic of dance at the Gel Conference 2007 and led a seminar at Gel 2011.
He is a noted advocate for his art form and has lectured for the Lincoln Center Young Patrons program. In December 2010 he hosted a forum with choreographers Robert Garland, Matthew Neenan and Luca Veggetti at the Juilliard School.
His articles on dance have appeared in Dance Magazine and its annual Stern's Performing Arts Directory, Pointe Magazine, Ballet Review, The Juilliard Journal and he was the American correspondent for European magazine Dance-for-You. Rübsam appeared in the documentary Behind the Curtain and has long been a board member of the Martha Hill Dance Foundation. In autumn 2011 Classic Talk conducted a two-part interview with Rübsam on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of his ensemble.
Choreographic development & teaching career
Since working with the late prima ballerina Assoluta Eva Evdokimova in early 2000, his choreographic work has included ballet vocabulary. In 2002 he created a highly regarded solo work for Evdokimova and began introducing lace work into his eclectic repertoire in 2004, attracting dancers from the American Ballet Theater, the Dance Theater of Harlem and the New York City Ballet. His company SENSEDANCE performed his Impending Visit (music: Rafael Aponte-Ledée) for the first time in 2009 at the Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He represented the United States as a cultural ambassador at the Danza Nueva Festival in Lima and on a subsequent tour with his company through Peru in 2010. In the fall of 2006, he joined the Juilliard College, where he set up a program for the appreciation of dance for the general public . At the beginning of the same year he was appointed resident choreographer at the Hartford City Ballet.
Dancers & students
His well-known students and guest dancers include Violetta Klimczewska, Ramon Thielen, Andrea Long, Carlos Molina, Dartanion Reed, Christine Reisner, as well as Samuel Lee Roberts and Akua Noni Parker, both from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater .
Quotes
"Mr. Rübsam has steadily followed his own drumbeat, though in the case of his cheerfully humanist choreography the sound might more appropriately be that of a flute. "(Jennifer Dunning, NYTimes, October 3, 2003)
"HALF-LIFE and Göttingen poignantly tackle the big questions and put Rübsam forth as the Anselm Kiefer of dance." (Lori Ortiz, readingdance.com, June 26, 2011)
Works
His works include:
- Schubert: Songs (1991)
- After Yet Another Fall (1992) - Original music by Beata Moon
- Folk Tales (1992)
- Erect Secrets (1993) - Original music: Christopher Buchenholz
- Sand (1993)
- Kingdom (1993)
- Lie (1994)
- Sunshine (1994)
- Jephte (1995)
- Ginger: My Story (1995)
- Dolphins and Antelopes (1996) - Original music: Beata Moon
- Ode (1996)
- Brass Blues (1997)
- Art of Love (1997) - Tribute to Laura Nyro
- Moonpaths (1998) - Original music: Beata Moon
- Carousel (1999)
- Rhapsody (1999)
- Be Good (2000)
- Voices of Spring (2000)
- Addicted (2001)
- Brahms: Double Concerto (2001)
- Listeners borne as bone (2002) - Original music: Kevin James
- The End of Innocence (2002) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Litany & Spring Faith (2002) - for Prima Ballerina Eva Evdokimova
- On The Fritz (2002)
- Safari (2002) - Music: Beata Moon
- Garden (2003)
- Petit Pas (2003)
- Chorale (2004) Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Django (2004)
- Quartet (2004) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Herman Sherman (2004)
- Dinner is West (2005) - Original music: Beata Moon
- The Dance Bag (2005)
- Burque Bosque (2006) Music: Beata Moon
- Basie's Basement (2006)
- Merciless Beauty (2006) - Music: Leslie Wildman
- Caves (2006) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Göttingen (2006)
- Amaranthine Road (2007) - Music: Beata Moon
- Innocence (2007) - Music: Ron Mazurek
- The Secret (2007) - Music: Beata Moon
- Inter-Mez-Zo (2008) - Music: Beata Moon
- Guernica (2008) - Music: Beata Moon
- Final Bell (2008) - Music: Ron Mazurek
- Scherzo (2008) - Hartford City Ballet
- Cloudforest (2008) - SENSEDANCE at the Alvin Ailey Citigroup Theater - NY, NY
- Impending Visit (2009) - at Festival Fiesta Iberoamericana de las Artes - San Juan, Puerto Rico
- José Antonio (2010) - Danza Nueva Festival - Lima, Peru
- Dvorák 8/3 (2010) - Texas Academy of Ballet
- HALF-LIFE (2011)
- Nonet (2011) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Tenancy (2011) - Original music: Beata Moon
- HALF-LIFE 102 (2012)
- obsession | calm (2012) - Music: Ernest Bloch
- Brahms Dances (2012)
- Borders (2013)
- Sarao (2013) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- At a lonely source (2013)
- Russian Lesson (2013)
- And There Was Morning (2015) - Original music: Beata Moon
- Grand Canyon (2015) - Music: Matt Siffert
- Combat del Somni (2015) - Music: Ricardo Llorca
- Papa's Porter (2015) - Music: Cole Porter , Hildegard Knef
- Blackpatch (2016) - Music: Laura Nyro
- Hungarian Dances (2016) - Music: Bartok
Web links
- Henning Rübsam in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- SENSEDANCE website
- Article on Henning Rübsam in The New York Times .
Individual evidence
- ↑ William Gooch: THE THINKING MAN'S Choreographer. STAGE and CINEMA, June 12, 2009, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Henning Rübsam. SENSEDANCE, accessed on March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Henning Rubsam Receives DISTINGUISHED ARTIST AWARD. broadwayworld.com, February 16, 2009, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ^ DJR Bruckner: THEATER REVIEW; Dancing at the Precipice of the End of the World. The New York Times , October 12, 1999, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Interview with choreographer Henning Rübsam (Gel '07 speaker). Good Experience, August 7, 2006, accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Henning Rübsam. (No longer available online.) The Juilliard Journal, archived from the original on March 9, 2016 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Behind the Curtain: Being a Professional Dancer (2006) Full Cast & Crew. IMDb , accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Our Board. Martha Hill Dance Fund, Ltd., accessed March 9, 2016 .
- ↑ Henning Rübsam Choreographer, dancer: Part 1. Classic Talk, 2011, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).
- ↑ Henning Rübsam Choreographer, dancer: Part 2. Classic Talk, 2011, archived from the original on February 12, 2015 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).
- ↑ http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/4374.html
- ↑ Temple Kemezis, Max van der Sterre: SENSE DANCE at Joyce SoHo. readingdance.com, June 26, 2011, archived from the original on January 16, 2015 ; accessed on March 9, 2016 (English).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rübsam, Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German choreographer and dancer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marburg |