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6 unusual facts about Henning Rübsam


Beata Moon

Moon has frequently collaborated with choreographer Henning Rübsam and his company SENSEDANCE.

Beverly Schmidt Blossom

She continues to be a mentor to Henning Rübsam, who first studied with her at the Nikolais studio and then performed her work starting in 1994.

Henning Rübsam

In addition to Moon, he has collaborated with numerous composers and musicians, including Ricardo Llorca and Leslie Wildman as well as designers of different disciplines, e.g. Fabio Toblini.

While a student at the Juilliard School, he took Classical Spanish Dance, studied Indian dance with Indrani Rahman, took a summer intensive at the School of American Ballet, performed as the Faun in the Nijinsky/Debussy ballet, starred in a dance film at the Sundance Institute, where he worked with Diane Coburn-Bruning, Michael Kidd and Stanley Donen, and toured internationally with the Limón Dance Company.

Leslie Wildman

She has worked with the choreographer Henning Rübsam, whose dance company SENSEDANCE is based in New York.

Ricardo Llorca

He has been composer-in-residence for Henning Rübsam's New York-based dance company SENSEDANCE, which has premiered several of his works and from 2009 through 2011 composer-in-residence at the New York Opera Society.


Eva Evdokimova

The last dance created for her (by choreographer Henning Rübsam) in 2002, prompted New York Times critic Jennifer Dunning to comment, "Both the solo and her performance were celebrations of the kind of artistry that comes only with maturity and experience."


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