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2025 February 23rd February: Lover's Manifesto Workshop Through writing, movement, and mindful exploration, participants will craft their personal manifesto of love. This workshop is a heartfelt dive into what love means to them. 18th, 19th and 21st February: Workshops about love with the elderly people in Malta who are part of an Active Age Centre. This will be conducted by Charlotte Stafrace. 14 February Xkafef Għal-Maħbubin in collaboration with Geġwiġija Library ( A Pop Library about Love and Relationships on Valentine's day as alternative to consumerist culture that often dominates the holiday, offering a space for reflection, creativity, and meaningful connection.) ILSNA: Songs and Stories of Lovers Premiere in Malta 6,7,8 and 9 at ROSA KWIR. January Rehearsals for ILSNA: Songs and Stories of Lovers in Amsterdam. 2024 November 29th Nov - Performing in AWICHAS : An evening informed by Andean ritual technology create by Ibelisse Guardia Ferragutti. 22nd Nov - Performing in Over the Shifting Currents of the Sea by Meghan Dobbelsteijn Bisschops as part The Spirit of Amsterdam Festival. October 31 Oct - The Anatomy of Mermaid , in which I performed, screening at LAB111 as part of Imagine Film Festival. 25, 26 and 27 Oct - Performing in Over the Shifting Currents of the Sea by Meghan Dobbelsteijn Bisschops as part of the Mime Fabriek Residency 2024 13 Oct Hosting the opening of Het Verbond. September Filming for Ciao Ciao a 3-part mini series directed by Keith Albert Tedesco. Ciao Ciao follows the story of two reacquainted couples at a friendly reunion dinner. The night devolves from polite social etiquette into primal chaos. July 4 july - Premiere of the short movie Anatomie van een Meermin under the direction of Carmen Maria. Workshop Me Looking at You Looking at Me, Creation and Facilitation Me Looking at You Looking at Me" is a workshop designed for those who want to connect with how or what they desire to express artistically. In order to express and share artistically, we must first allow ourselves to be seen, both by ourselves and perhaps eventually by others, as people who want to create—be it a theatre piece, a recipe book, a dress, an exhibition, or anything else. What are the steps involved in this process? Each individual's journey is unique, and this workshop is about learning to listen and sense into what those steps might be for you. Through the use of simple performative tools, participants will embark on a playful and in-depth journey that allows them to feel where they stand within their creative longings. These longings may be connected with performing but also extend to other art forms. It welcomes individuals from all backgrounds, whether they are seasoned artists who might feel trapped in a specific identity or shy shower singers who desire to take a step further into the open. Subsidy Writing ✍🏻✍🏼✍🏽✍🏾✍🏿 June Residency for Some Things Need to be Danced at Het Verbond, Frascati Amsterdam with Jethro Cooke and Fleur van den Berg. During this residency, I continued where I had left off last December with the performance *Lover's Manifesto*. Over these weeks, the piece gradually evolved into something less theatrical and more akin to a blend of performance and intimate dinner gathering, where audience and performers could engage in conversation about love, lovers and relationships. Part of a short research with Julian Hetzel for the studio's new work with Stary Teatr in Poland called The Earth is Flat. May Co-facilitated two workshops, spearheaded by Stephanie Bonnici called Stories for Hope . Supporting Melyn Chow with her research around prayer, play and collective communion with god. We both deeply contemplate the nature of god—what god is, how god lives, and how we are both seeking god. Our answers are ever-changing, but this ongoing dialogue has been a constant in our lives. This research took place at Frascati with Sjaid Fonce. April HEAT Tour! March HEAT, Theater Rotterdam Premiere! Module Projectaanvraag - AHK with Lucy Walvisch Collaborated with a third-year student from the OPP production department at AHK to develop a project idea for their Module Project Application. Together, we worked on integrating my artistic vision with their developing expertise in project planning, including shaping the concept, finding locations, and building a plan for distribution and audience engagement. Getting to know Lucy was a joy. Febru ary HEAT rehearsals, Theater Rotterdam January HEAT rehearsals start at Theater Rotterdam. In HEAT, director Davy Pieters shows the complexity of intergenerational family dynamics. Relationships are under pressure, and deep-rooted behaviour becomes visible. 2023 December 16th Dec Filming for Anatomie van een Meermin. 13th Dec: ❤️🔥 Lover's Manifesto NL Premier ❤️🔥 1st and 2nd Dec: Residency Sharing Evening! Book here it's free ⭐ November In residency at Mime Fabriek On tour I'd Rather Die October On tour I'd Rather Die September Rehearsals I'd Rather Die August Starting of rehearals in Rotterdam for I'd Rather Die by Zarah Bracht. A powerful and visual physical theatre performance about female resistance. 24 to 29 Aug | Times unknown | Amsterdam | The Wedding | Theater festival De Parade | Tent: Paradetheater 2 8 to 13 Aug | Times unknown | Utrecht | The Wedding | Theater festival De Parade | Tent: Paradetheater 2 July Holidaying somewhere yet unknown licking sun, skin and ice-cream! 🐚 ☀️ June 28 to July 2 | Times unkno wn | Eindhoven | The Wedding | Theater festival De Parade | Tent: Paradetheater 2 June Rehearsals for The Wedding May Rehearsals for the Wedding with Collectief Het Paradijs Malta Workshop called Għandi Pjaċir Malta Photoshoot for Luke Azzopardi April Young Europe IV. Second-year running of this beautiful project which I mentor representing the National Theatre of Malta . Subsidy Writing March Subsidy Writing and concept development w ith David van der Velden Photoshoot with Emma Grima, kickstarting visual prep for Lover's Manifesto . Photoshoot with Daniel Carabott for fun and fever! Febru ary A research and development period in February 2023 for a children's theatre performance we called You May Not Drill a Hole in Someone's Head . Music collaboration with Sergio Escoda. Commissioned by MAAS Theater. Photoshoot with Ivar Schutte January Three tryout feedback sessions for a new work I am weaving called Lover's Manifesto. Grateful to all who came or supported these months of research emotionally, physically and magically! Part of Charlotte's Gillain 's beautiful research Holocene Holiday. 202 2 December Trying out my words as spoken word art. Recording songs in Maltese. Gave love to my CV. Made a new theatre showreel that you can see HERE . I am fascinated with how much beauty I can see in my performing/made work after it's done and I have some distance and how in the process I often feel a current of lack, not-enoughness and judgement in rehearsal. Writing about love, loving, what it means to be a lover, the practice of loving, what staying and going means/can mean in the context of love and how there seems to be a hierarchy that dominates our way of thinking (mine at least). Writing about power and what my work of empowerment can feel like. Dressing up? Humour as a resource? Writing about how I value movement more than writing. Even there there is a fucking hierarchy in my head. November Editing and rewriting old tapes in words, music & movement ✍️ 🎶 🎹 🦵🎤 Birthday party: Rivolta28 ❤️🔥 Weaving Workshop with Jetske Verhouven as part of Entanglements. Research in collaboration with Rachel Schuit for her project Entanglements. A performative installation in which the physical act of weaving is central, in which the voices of the performers also intertwine, and in which non-human life forms such as the forest also participate in the 'entanglement'. October NEW studio space at Marci Panis! 4 months of t easing out what feels sincere. What is moving (or not) within me? Editing and rewriting my old tapes in words, music and movement 📷 ✍️ 🎶 🎹 🦵🎤 🖤 Meetings, dreaming up and a beautiful photoshoot for new children's theatre work 'You may not drill a hole in someone's head' as part of FRIS by MAAS Theater. Filming for ImpeachedMag the short film L'Extase under the direction of Keith Albert Tedesco. Meetings and mentorship for Young Europe IV still underway as we gear up for Draft 1 sharing of the script. Photo and video shoot with Inez Almeida & Nicolas Ipina for Smoke. Mentoring Kirsty Baker for mime graduation solo Baseline Babbling. September 30/01/02 OCT - Malta Premiere Teatru tal-Miskin 23/24/25 SEPT - Gozo Premiere Teatru tal-Miskin August Movement Direction for Teatru tal-Miskin- Official Rehearsal Period July Prepping, reading and creating for Teatru tal-Miskin by Luke Saydon. 1 - 7th July Lisbon/Porto - Week off to celebrate Inez Almeida 40th Birthday! Hooray :) June 15th - 30th June (Malta) Mentor for the theatre piece Quo Vadis by Rochelle Gatt and Jacob Piccinino Playing and Movement workshops for Teatru tal-Miskin performers. 2nd June - Performing for the premier of Baubo's Teeth May Rehearsing for Antonella Fittipaldi ’s Baubo's Teeth for SNDO Graduation Performance. 16 - 21 june Prague for Young Europe IV organised by European Theatre Convention. 15th - Forest Voice Workshop with Leela May Stockholm. Content collection for this website which you are reading now. Hey. April Noto Sicily for one week with my cherished loved one Justin to nourish our minds, bodies and soul with beauty. Had a neck injury in the previous process and I am hoping the Sicilian air and cannoli will heal this. Not sure if the physio would recommend cannoli but this is ok. Two weeks in Malta as mentor for Cheek to Cheek Malta. Spearheaded by Rochelle Gatt, the team bring the DasArts Feedback Method to Malta: a tool of great benefit to creatives who are seeking collaborative environments, and who are embedded in devised works In Malta I was also external eye for the physical theatre performance Quo Vadis? premiering in June! March 24/25 Frascati Amsterdam Premiere for Crispr by Davy Pieters. Produced by Theater Rotterdam. 10 March - On this day the journey begins with Alex Weeink and Kurt Gabriel Meli for Young Europe IV. This is a 3-year programme devoted to expanding the canon of European theatre literature, by highlighting "forgotten" plays and by writing new ones for young audiences. I will be mentoring this project. February Rehearsing for the Theater Performance Crispr: It might seem far away, but it’s closer than ever. We are now able to change the genetic code of body cells, bacteria, viruses and plants. With the CRISPR-cas9 technology we can adjust the properties of any organism to our liking. A revolutionary development that will have major consequences for humans, plants and animals. The performance CRISPR zooms in on the children born after using these ‘genetic scissors’. How does the relationship to our body change when we view ourselves and nature as something we can readjust and regulate? January Rehearsals started for Davy Pieters' Crispr. I will be performing and I am excited! Movement Director: Research and Development phase for the first queer musical in Malta it-Teatru tal-Miskin. Spear-headed by the composer, musical director and writer Luke Saydon , under direction of Denise Mulholland with local Maltese actors. 2021 December Remains of Violence November Remains of Violence. October Remains of Violence creation period starts. Performing in Julian Hetzel’s The Automated Sniper . September Camino de Santiago - Three weeks walking to absorb, take in, digest, release the four years since I moved to live and study in Amsterdam. July Performed and co-directed in Charlotte Gillain’s short film - Wherever you go there you are. This work questions the ownership of your identity. We wanted to play with doubling, exchanging and mixing people with the help of the upcoming deep fake software. Graduated from the Mime School after four years of studying at this amazing department! June Printed Liberjxan in da Nejxan (Liberation in the Nation) and Carrière Artistique C’est Fantastique. Two written works of mine as celebration and closing of my four years at the Mime School in Amsterdam. Liberejxan is a collection of writing and images on the theme of pleasure. Some stuff is, some by other souls. The latter then, is a written manifesto on how I would like to design my life. 17 till 19 June we premiered with Honey I am talking about Devotion . Graduation Performance for our year. This piece was a physical whirlwind where human desire, brutality and tenderness come to the fore. Received Studio Jakop Ahlbom Talent Support Grant for Remains of Violence with Esmée Begemann. YEEHA! :) https://jakopahlbom.nl/studio-jakop-ahlbom/?lang=en Closed off Staging Rage with Staging Rage Manifesto .

Give me goosebumps again Concept & Performance Mentor Ruth Borg Fleur van den Berg MAY 2021 2020 My first online work took place in Amsterdam during our time of collective isolation. Give me goosebumps again stemmed out of my question: how do I move alone and how do I move when others watch? ⬅

⬅ 🌕 14th June 2022 Today I wanted to release this website. It was a deadline I gave to myself. It's not done yet so I start by sharing it with a precious few, like you. Actually, I wanted to launch it. This is the word I have been using. Launch. . . When I think of how the word launching makes me feel, I see an army of men in suits waiting for me to rocket like a bullet through the air. There is a lot of force and pushing and everything now. I don't like it when I arrive at this state and way of working. I get so focused on coming , out of fear that otherwise, I may not come. Otherwise it may not happen. I might not deliver. I might not give what I love priority. Someone else might even come before me and then I will be alone in a corner, not-coming. Haha! "Ladies and gentlemen welcome, to the not-coming corner" Today I am choosing to postpone my orgasm and allow a more profound pleasure from this website. I choose to remember the many-a-beautiful times when I kept breathing so that an orgasm could find me and flow in tears, laughter and God's juice. Yes. YES! Loved ones, I have been enjoying this process immensely. Selecting images, reminiscing about works, finding a pulse in ideas that I thought were dead, releasing work relationships that were not serving me and forming others, finding love for words again, dreaming up courageous nude futures ♡ I have also written a personal prayer, which you may read, (and repeat in your heart should you wish) - I trust you - I trust you will water me, that you will not forget me. I trust you will give me attention. I trust that that you will make time to continue giving life to me at your own pace. I release you from living in a rhythm where the minute's working overtime. 🎶 An eventual birth will occur, naturally, without injections to get the birth going. And if you do forget me, for sometimes, life is too hard cause the cat dies, try sing yourself back, or listen to someone singing, so you may remember your own song. I dedicate all these words to Marijn de Langen whose presence penetrates my soul and soil. Who opens me back to tenderness so I may be free. Who reminds me that, yes, it makes sense that I desire to be an artist doing projects while also having energy for other things like my partner, my father, my mother, cooking, partying, yoga, sex, meditation etc... It's about listening again and again to the how. But now, Por favor! Come into my unfinished website. Entre ici mon chérie ↴

⬅ I have lesbian friends. I have lesbian friends. Who are being lesbian as we speak. They are engaging in lesbian behaviour I think. What would I do as a lesbian? I would be dancing with a woman. But then as more than friends. We would be somewhere where people dance. A place where it is expected to see dancing bodies. So not in the supermarket. I would be very shy of the woman in front of me I think dancing with me not as friends. I would probably cry even. She would ask me why I was crying. So I would skip this unnecessary drama and cover her eyes. I like covered eyes and faces. I like this a lot. I wish we walked the streets like this and queued in supermarkets blind. That was enough lesbian writing for today.

Films Info Ruth Borg - IMDB Showreel 2024 The Duality of Ecstasy - Full Movie On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life. Project Name This is your Project description. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to start. Project Name This is your Project description. Provide a brief summary to help visitors understand the context and background of your work. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to start. Of Time and the Sea - Baħar Żmien (Trailer) On an island an old man wracked with dementia dreams he was once a king. Together with his two daughters they exist in the wake of a bizarre malady of mysterious origin on a land devoid of animal life. Project Name This is your Project description. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to start. Project Name This is your Project description. Provide a brief summary to help visitors understand the context and background of your work. Click on "Edit Text" or double click on the text box to start.

ILSNA ILSNA is the name Ruth Borg chooses for her vocal and music endeavours. ILSNA, meaning tongues in Maltese, sings dark and soothing tones and spits fire in her words. She emerges from mediterranean waters to voice that which is silenced behind closed doors. She merges languages, guts and vocal healing. image by the beautiful, Lisa Attard. Shot in Malta, Imġiebaħ Bay.

⬅ A man and a woman. Their heads are round so their thoughts can change direction. The woman turns twenty-four tomorrow. The man keeps saying thank you for all the times someone took time to ask him: “Hey, how are you doing?” Juxtaposition No’5 is a theatre performance inviting us to look at a pair as they try to make sense of the nonsense and nonsense of the sense. As they do so, the duo start playing, creating an independent system with their own brand of relationship structure. They encourage one another in but sometimes one of them stops or takes a sideroad. What happens then? Credits Concept & Performing: Aleksej Ovsiannikov , Ruth Borg Adviser: Esther Snelder Photographer: Ani Jo Poster Design: Marija Grech Gratitude to : Class mates, partners and Loes van der Pligt

marija grech All above photos are courtesy of Maltese female photographer Marija. Because of this woman I have come to love moving, morphing or being still in front of a camera. Thank you! Ivar Schutte Anisa Xhomaqi Rebecca Gauci

Acerca de 00 14th June 01 On days like this I look at my mother and father 02 Since Forever 03 Home in a Pouch 04 Whip Lines 05 I have lesbian friends 06 Wish your laptop crashes 07 Self Interview #1 08 Self Interview #2 09 Rage Manifesto 10 Jien Mara Missieri

⬅ Of Time and the Sea (Baħar Żmien) A film by Peter Sant Ħallini Ħanini A film by Samira Damato https://hallinihanini.com/

Selected theatre works I made and performed since 2016. Alone, with another or many beautiful others.

⬅ When I’m away, home permeates my deepest thoughts in fleeting spurts; while in Naples, talking to others, in front of a stony sea. Like a kangaroo, I carry home in a little pouch at the front. Wherever I go. I find my home intriguing, painful and beautiful. Both at the same time. I feel a constant need to write a story about my home…Some plunge in the reality of their home without ever leaving while others seek to run away from the reality of their home. I choose to lie somewhere in between.