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12 October 2024/ OPEN WORKSHOP

VIEW.POINT.MARY

Join us for an OPEN WORKSHOP! ⚪️⬛️🔷🔴🌈

In connection with our upcoming piece VIEW.POINT.MARY, we invite you to explore some of the improvisation-based work methods of Cranky Bodies a/company.

After a warm-up, we will dive into the Six Viewpoints created by Mary Overlie, a visionary dancer and choreographer who developed a new system for theater and dance. Her method is based on the idea that anyone working in the performing arts can enhance their ability to communicate with the audience, as everyone becomes an observer/participant in the viewpoints.

Alongside we’ll explore Contact Improvisation, a key element of our Cranky approach, and how we implement this technique in our work.

► Open to all levels – beginners and advanced movers welcome
FREE of charge
► Saturday, 12.10.2024 | 11:00 – 16:00
EDEN Studio, 190 E.G., Berlin Pankow

►► Registration required. Please email saskia@crankybodies.com.

With the support of DOCKART and Hauptstadt Kultur Fonds

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31 October & 1/2/3 November 2024

VIEW.POINT.MARY

Tanz Performance in EDEN***** Berlin
More info + tickets ►► hier

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5/6/7 & 12/13/14 April 2024

Triton Tanzt + book/kiss

Peter Pleyer – Two solos / two weekends

Peter performs his two latest solos on two consecutive weekends 5/6/7 & 12/13/14 April 2024 in DOCK11 Berlin

More info & tickets
Triton Tanzt ►► here
book/kiss ►► here

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2/3 & 7/8/9 December 2023

Terrestrial Transit

Durational Performance/ Video Installation
2/3 & 7/8/9 December 2023
DOCK11 Berlin
More info & tickets ►► here

Terrestrial Transit restaging © Photo Michiel Keuper
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CRANKY BODIES DANCE TOGETHER - Workshop Fabrik Potsdam © Photo Michiel Keuper

5-9 June 2023/ WORKSHOP Fabrik Potsdam

CRANKY BODIES DANCE TOGETHER

CHOREOGRAPHY & VISUAL DESIGN | WITH PETER PLEYER & MICHIEL KEUPER / CRANKY BODIES A/COMPANY

05 – 09 JUNE 2023 | POTSDAMER TANZTAGE 2023 | INTENSIVE WORKSHOP

The workshop combines choreography and design by using techniques from contact improvisation, ensemble work, and release technique. Complemented by visual artist and fashion designer Michiel Keuper, it aims to increase awareness of space, shape, color, and objects.

For more info and registration ►► click here

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March 2023

Magazine Susch / Artist Booklet

Cranky Bodies a/company was commissioned to design this year’s ‘Artist Booklet’ for Magazine Susch MS#4. More Info ►► here.

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6-9 October 2022

Terrestrial Transit

Durational Performance/ Video Installation
6/ 7/ 8/ 9 October 2022
DOCK11 Berlin
More info ►► here

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3-4 June 2022

Terrestrial Transit/
KICK OFF

Dance and Talks with Cast and Guests
SOPHIENSÆLE Berlin
More info ►► here

Lecture performance Muzeum Susch - PR photo © Photo © Michiel Keuper

21 May 2022

Lecture-performance Muzeum Susch

‘Cranky Interventions. Dance and visual arts in choreographic dialogue’

Saturday / 21.05
14.00 / Auditorium
in frames of MS Performance Weekend

During their lecture-performance, Eszter Gál, Michiel Keuper, and Peter Pleyer will dance, talk and visually compose in Muzeum Susch’s auditorium along the lines of their history and the research into ‘Terrestrial Transit’ that will focus on how dance and choreography are connected to forms of protest in Hungary and Poland before 1989, and how the work of postmodern dance can be a form of protest in the contemporary crisis – a crisis of Health, of Capitalism and War.

For more info click ►► here

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May 2022

TanzRaumBerlin – Magazine Cover

The Kick Off of Terrestrial Transit is featured on the cover of the Tanzraumberlin issue for May/June. You can read the full article ► here

HEAR

February 2022

Podcast: Good Choices Peter Pleyer

In February Peter was in conversation with Sabine Parzer from the Holistic Dance Institute.
“Good Choices – A holistic conversation about dance, art & life with Sabine Parzer” is a podcast series inviting professionals from the dance, art and related fields to talk about choices they make artistically, personally, environmentally, politically and spiritually. How do these choices impact and inspire their work, physical and mental health, family life, and the communities in which they live?

Listen to the Podcast ► here

Cranky Bodies performance On site / Outside in EDEN park, August 2021 © Photo Michiel Keuper
LATEST

August / September 2021

ON SITE / OUTSIDE

Testplatz Wedding – hosted by Galerie Wedding
Rathausplatz, Müllerstrasse, Berlin-Wedding

The interdisciplinary ensemble Cranky Bodies a/company is characterised by the close interweaving of choreographic and sculptural composition, which is constantly renegotiated with the help of structured improvisation. This negotiation process is continued in public, urban space: The ensemble explores the effect of the surrounding architectural structure of the town hall forecourt on its own network of relationships between dance and transitional sculptures.

More info and photos ► hier

Ponderosa residency © Photo Michiel Keuper

Juli 2021

Ponderosa Residency

In July, the company spent a two-week residency at Ponderosa, in Stolzenhagen, Brandenburg.