current / upcoming

Tanzcompagnie Rubato_New Project

Polarization and Empathy

Premiere: 23. October 2024, 7 pm

and 24. - 26. Oct. 7 pm und 27. Oct. 5 pm

Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 14

Uferstr. 8/23, 13357 Berlin 

Trailer by TanzForum Berlin

In February 2022, we thought we were putting the pandemic behind us.Then came the war in Ukraine, areas of crisis multiplied.The “turning point” was proclaimed.Certainties have been put into perspective in a very short time.Can I continue to live as before, what do I have to do without, what do I want to do without?What could a different model of life look like?Can a different space of feeling, thinking and acting open up.These questions, uncertainties and fears concern many people.We perceive that in this complex and uncertain situation, the terms polarization and empathy represent two very different ways of dealing with and strategies for how people process current social reality.We are interested in the meaning that both terms play in relation to us as individuals, as bodies that are involved in complex social developments and are looking for meaning, orientation and concrete action.In both terms, the relationships between people and social groups play an important role.Perception, movement and active action are essential for the development of empathy; social polarization is carried out through bodies that themselves consist of polar structures in their body systems.The aim is to use documentary sources, the body, music and video to address both polarization and empathy as a complex field of tension that contains the useful and the dangerous, the utopian and the retrograde, so that an audience can draw its own differentiated conclusions from it.

production: Tanzcompagnie Rubato funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, in cooperation with Uferstudios Berlin.Project research funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, DIS-TANZEN aid program of Dachverband Tanz Deutschland. Media partnership: tipBerlin, radio 3 rbb, rausgegangen.

 photo Dieter Hartwig

Tanzcompagnie Rubato

ZWEIFEL

Premiere October 11th 2023, 7.00 pm

 Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 14

 October 12th. to 14th 7.00 pm

 and October 15th. 5.00 pm

Uferstr.8/23, 13357 Berlin

T R A I L E R

production: Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion, Berlin, in cooperation with Uferstudios, Berlin. Project research funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

Doubt as an attitude, as a means of questioning reality and making decisions, is to be examined and is the most important category for the research. The positive socio-political application of the term plays a role, as formulated by Lars Ramberg (Palace of the Republic - Palace of Doubt): The collective courage to doubt as proof of reflection and democracy, for a future-oriented identity discourse. What does doubt have to do with our body? What insights can we gain with him about doubt? We want to physically examine if there are "mechanisms of doubt" in our body systems, in bones, muscles, organs, fluid systems. We pursue the question to what extent these physical mechanisms and functionalities influence our thinking and acting when dealing with reality. We want to reflect on experiences that are made in times of crisis and ways of processing them using researched documentary material (videos, texts, original sound) and use them for our creative process. What does the doubt mean for the transformation into something future? Our body-oriented, sensual and haptic approach tries to create a different perspective, a new approach to the phenomena described above than the word, reflection as text or film can. From the starting points, questions and methods described, we want to research and develop movement approaches and choreographic possibilities in order to apply them in a future project: About Doubt.

Funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media in the program NEUSTART KULTUR, aid program DIS-TANZEN of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

October 2022

SEHNSUCHT

 anatomy of a feeling

Premiere October 05th 2022

Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 14

also  October 06th to 09th

Studio 14, Uferstudios

Uferstr.8/23, 13357 Berlin

Trailer

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SEHNSUCHT, anatomy of a feeling

Originally related to experiences made during the hard lockdown phases of 2020 and 2021 during the corona pandemic - the longing for new, old freedom - the topic developed further. Corona stayed, but war in Ukraine, fear of inflation, energy shortage and more came along.

From a psychological point of view, longing is a complex feeling, characterized by the fact that it simultaneously activates positive and negative feelings, pain and happiness or joy in humans, often very intensely. SEHNSUCHT, anatomy of a feeling combines collective and individual longing experiences of the participating artists, the aim is to make these inner feelings physically, musically and visually accessible in many different facets. In this creative exploration, the seven dancers are joined by musicians Alejandra Cárdenas, aka Ale Hop (live electronics and electric guitar) and Alex Nickmann, (live electronics and drums). The video artist Andrea Keiz finds her own visual interpretation and projects her world of images onto the stage.

Where is the longing in the body? What color is she? How heavy is she? What sound does she have?

concept: Dieter Baumann, Jutta Hell

video art: Andrea Keiz

light:Fabian Bleisch

costumes: Claudia Janitschek, Jutta Hell

communication: k3 berlin

production: Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin, in cooperation with Uferstudios, Berlin.

From February 2022 on

Common Practice

When the second Corona wave reached Berlin in autumn 2020 with a performance ban, difficult training and rehearsal conditions, we trained together with dance artists from our environment in the rehearsal room we rented and practically worked on topics, project independent. We called it COMMON PRACTICE. At the beginning of 2021, this group was able to receive funding through the #TakeCare program for artist groups. We were able to do paid research as a group for 2 months, exchange knowledge and train ourselves. With the funding from Neustart Kultur / Tanzpakt Reconnect, we want to consolidate and further develop the COMMON PRACTICE model in 2022 and secure it as an interface for project-independent knowledge production in the long term. Common practice differs from common residency and research practices. Common Practice is based on a group of professionally working individual dance artists. Contents are brought in, discussed and selected by everyone involved. Common practice does not aim to develop a production or to maintain a company. Common Practice is PAID joint research practice, further training, knowledge production within a defined period of time.

Supported by DIEHL+RITTER / TANZPAKT RECONNECT,

which is funded by the German Federal Government Commissioner

for Culture and the Media as part of the NEUSTART KULTUR initiative.

October 2021

 Die Zeit ist immer jetzt

Tanzcompagnie Rubato in cooperation withzeitkratzer, europäisches Solisten - Ensemble für aktuelle Musik

Premiere October 07th 2021

Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 14

also  October 08th and 10th

Studio 14, Uferstudios

Uferstr.8/23, 13357 Berlin

www.uferstudios.com

Trailer

We are socially engaged in an intensive discourse on how the relationship between nature and society, nature and humans can be significantly changed and redefined. Rethinking how to deal with “time” is part of this discussion.The central aspect of our production is the phenomenon “time”. In a dialogical process, 8 dancers from the Rubato dance company and 8 musicians from the zeitkratzer ensemble meet.The aim is to unsettle familiar patterns of perception of time, to stimulate the viewer to reflect on time processes, including those of his own body. Experiencing time as a form of living existence, independent of current time economies, through dance and music.

Covid 19 visitor rules: The event can only be visited with GGG proof (vaccinated, recovered, tested). There is an obligation to provide contact details.

More information here.

 März 2021

 KörperWetter_Reloaded

Video-Experiments

 from Andrea Keiz

Andrea was part of our intensive workgroup, which took place from March 1st to 7th, 2021 at Uferstudios Berlin

The planned public showings could not take place due to pandemic reasons.The video experiments give an insight into our research.

Participants: Dieter Baumann, Alessandra Defazio, Viviana Defazio, Jutta Hell, Andrea Keiz, Alexander Nickmann, Carlos Osatinsky, Fernando Pelliccioli, Anja Sielaff.

Please click on the picture to get to the video experiments.

 Videostils: Andrea Keiz Video_Experimente

Funded by the Senate Department for Culture and Europe, Berlin.

November 2020 until April 2021

embodyment_

a journey into ourselves

A research project by Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann, made possible and funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media in the NEUSTART KULTUR program, the DIS-TANZEN aid program of the Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.

The Corona crisis has shown how much our body is natural, how fragile our social structure is, how quickly a well-running economy can collapse. We have drastically learned that the body is the interface between nature and civilization. The caesura we are experiencing makes it clear to us that we are at a turning point. What possibilities does our artistic work with the body, with choreography, offer for this examination? This is the core question of our research during the fellowship period.

 Practical implementation, method

There are three terms on our agenda that we examine theoretically and practically: human beings - nature, the Qi concept, biopolitics. 

Human – Nature

"We are given to ourselves as nature, being nature happens to us" (Gernot Böhme). Gernot Böhme points to a central aspect, that we can only understand ourselves as part of nature in the conscious act of appropriation, of self-awareness. The task for dancers and choreographers is: How can I theatrically work on the “inside” and make it accessible to an audience? For this purpose we deal with the concept of "embodyment" and its usefulness for our future work.

The Qi concept is a very old and comprehensive concept of understanding the universe, nature and the human (body) as belonging together. The teaching of yin and yang as a complementary play of opposing forces in all of nature. With the Qi Gong master Mrs. Liu Yafei, in Beidaihe / South China and Björn Dirk Schlueter, former dance dramaturge, now TCM doctor in San Francisco, we want to investigate the possibilities of how the Qi concept can flow into a dance and choreographic practice.

Biopolitics

The term biopolitics comes from Michele Foucault and is more relevant today than ever. He summarizes the relationship that the state maintains in the modern age with the social body. This relationship has come under criticism as a result of the current crisis; e.g. B. Restriction of our freedom rights, the domestic space as a prison. We want to engage with Foucault's work in the context of our investigation. Finding inspiration for choreographic themes that respond artistically to the changes and challenges in the world we live in.

Now is the time to take time.

Online resumption July 2020

Premiere June 2020

KörperWetter

What is behind the mask, that I call my body?

Due to Covid 19, the planned premiere of KörperWetter was released as a video stream in June 2020 in three episodes. Due to the great positive response and many clicks, you have here access to the three episodes as streams:

Click on each episode on each day to start the stream.

1. Episode July 17. 7.00 pm

2. Episode July 18. 7.00 pm

3. Episode July 19. 7.00 pm

KörperWetter

communication:                   k3 berlin

Photos:                                Monika Rittershaus

Production:Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, and funded by the Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, in cooperation with Studio Sonic and Uferstudios für zeitgenössischen Tanz, Berlin.

traces_#62

© Dirk Bleicker

Premiere: 10. October 2019, Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 14,

and  11. - 13. October

TRAILER

traces_#62

The noise of the present.

Do you know that, you walk in the street or sit in the café and pick up fragments of conversation from passers-by, passing you from conversations at the next table. Or you can see gestures and interactions that are both commonplace and strange.

We kept a kind of journal for a while, in which we noted interesting, weird, also cryptic linguistic fragments as well as movements and actions that we remembered. A text archive of banal, curious, philosophical, political fragments has emerged.

Our records are quasi extracts of different realities, not sensational, but human. From this material, we develop our new piece, traces_ # 62, for two dancers and a live musician.

What do these verbal, sensory and physical impressions make when translated into our bodies? And what happens to our bodies and our movements in dealing with this material?What dances arise from our descriptions of movement when we combine the meaningful with the meaningless, the banal with the philosophical, the serious with the comical?

A space of possibility arises, a choreography that tries to come from this material to its own assertion and to make the banality and complexity of everyday life perceptible and celebrate.

A nonlinear way about perceived states, about conflicts that have moved into us.

A new duet by Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann, together with live musician and sound artist Alexander Nickmann in a light installation by Fabian Bleisch.

Production: Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, in cooperation with Studio Sonic and Uferstudios Berlin.

November 2018

blue-sky thinking

Premiere November 14th. 2018,

also November 15th - 18th 2018.

Uferstudios Berlin, Studio 1

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/300132235

blue-sky thinking

"Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? What do we expect? What awaits us? ... It is important to learn to hope. ... The work of this affect requires people who throw themselves into the endeavor, to which they themselves belong." With these words, the philosopher Ernst Bloch begins his central work" The Principle of Hope ".

Hope as something positive, as a forward-looking force. A force that leads from the desire to the will to action. Because the signs of the times we live in, are more in the direction of uncertainty, fear, conflict and isolation, the positive affect "hope" interests us as a deep human desire for a happy life. Daydreams are an important part of making hopes come true. blue-sky thinking, an attempt to develop creative ideas that are not constrained by current realities, trends, and beliefs.

Production: Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Berlin, in cooperation with Studio Sonic and Uferstudios Berlin.

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October 2018  

Eadweard´s Ear Muybridge extended 

an interface for dancers and musicians

Academy editions 1 – 3

October 04th - 06th. 2018, 7.00 pm

Concept, artistic direction, space: Penelope Wehrli / Notationssystem, Mediensteuerung, Entwicklung, Programmierung: Joa Glasstetter / Composition, musical direction: Gerriet K.Sharma / choreographic development, dance: Tanzcompagnie Rubato (Dieter Baumann, Jutta Hell) / musicians: Stephanie Hupperich, Alejandra Cardenas, Alexander Nickmann / technical direction & development: Thomas Koch / production management: Anna Bergel / technician: Emma Juliard, Bastian Orthmann / EADWEARD´S EARis a production of peninsula.ink in cooperation with Festival Neue Musik Rümlingen and Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt am Main. Funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds and supported by TESLA Berlin e.V.

www.adk.de

www.aether1.org

March - May 2018

Figures in a Landscape

An international, interdisziplinary project between fine art and dance - choreography

Premiere in China / Shanghai May 18th. - 12018_ 6.30 pm

and 19th. 2.30 pm 

Power Station of Art Shanghai

Premiere in Berlin March 29th.  2018 _ 6.00 pm

Gemäldegalerie im Kulturforum / Sonderausstellungshalle 2

TRAILER

Figures in a Landscape is a meditation on living painting and moving sculptures, a dialogue between visual art and dance, between European and Chinese culture.

Starting point were the costume designs of the British visual artist Jonathan Baldock, inspired by such diverse references and influences as Chinese opera costumes, medieval monks' cowls or the abstraction of European modernism.

With their choreography, Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann add an extra dimension to the materiality of Baldock's costumes. They are repeatedly arranged differently on the bodies of the eight dancers, in the movement, through the dance, and receive an independent rhythm in the lines, form and color.

The museum as place of the performance, becomes an important part of the perception and reflection of the piece.

Figures in a Landscape

Total running time: 60 minutes, no intermission

Artistic directors: Jutta Hell, Dieter Baumann

Direction, Choreography: Jutta Hell

Costum, Sculptur: Jonathan Baldock

Dance, Choreography: Dieter Baumann. Alessandra Defazio, Er Gao, Bing Luo, Carlos Osatinsky, Anja Sielaff, Wang Zhen Jun, Li Ling Xi

Light: Fabian Bleisch

Sound: Da Bao

Production management: Inge Zysk, Raquel Moreira

Communication: k3 berlin

Photos: Dirk Bleicker

Produktion: Tanzcompagnie Rubato, funded by Hauptstadtkulturfonds, in cooperation with Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz_Staatliche Museen zu Berlin and Powerstation of Art, Shanghai

April 2018

SOS_ Gerhard Bohner_ Tanzcompagnie Rubato

 Tempo: a tender slowness

 Reconstruction / Passing on 2018

A TANZFONDS ERBE project

www.tanzfonds.de

  April 26. - 28. 2018 _  8.00 pm

Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Pariser Platz 4, Blackbox

Gerhard Bohner's late work is the essence of his exploration of the legacy of pre-war modernism, in search of a new language that transcends time. The result are masterpieces of dance art. Throughout his life, a pioneer who has not established himself in any aesthetic habit, Bohner created with his latest work SOS a lesson of accuracy and reduction, permeable to theatrical composition.

The dance critic Irene Sieben wrote on the occasion of a resumption of SOS in 1999: "... The reunion with Bohner's work and his spiritual dimension is still groundbreaking seven years after his death." The pure doctrine. Every young choreographer should listen to, to distinguish black from white to learn to fight for the quality of art ... "(ballet international / dance aktuell 1/2000)

Jutta Hell and Dieter Baumann pass on the choreography they created  for them in 1991for the first time to the next generation of dancers. A TANZFONDS ERBE project.

SOS

Total running time: 65 minutes, no intermission

Choreography: Gerhard Bohner (1936 - 1992)

Artistic directors, passing on: Jutta Hell, Dieter Baumann

 Dancers: Niannian Zhou, Xuan Shi

Speaker: Knuth Irche

Music / Sound: Ronald Steckel

Set Design: Ursula Sax

Stage: Norbert Stück

Photo: Klaus Rabien

Texts taken from the book "herzzero" by Franz Mon 

Funded by TANZFONDS ERBE – an initiative by the German Federal Cultural Foundation, in cooperation with Academy of Art, Berlin. A Tanzcompagnie Rubato production.

The photo book

30 years Tanzcompagnie Rubato

Book release: September  2015

Published by Jutta Hell und Dieter Baumann

Layout: Dirk Bleicker

Editorial: Sven Neumann

With original contributions from  

Dr. Johannes Odenthal and Jun. Professor Dr. Susanne Foellmer

Preview pdf

Book orders: rubato@snafu.de