With VIEW.POINT.MARY, Cranky Bodies a/company celebrate Mary Overlie, the original anarchist of postmodern dance. Her legendary horizontal laboratory is created in the landscape of EDEN Studio 300, where dance, sound, costume and sculpture move in ever-changing contexts.

In an installative performance with new transitional sculptures by Michiel Keuper, the dancers articulate six points of view: Space, Form, Time, Movement, Emotion and Narrative. Variable floor patterns and spaces are created and filled with solos, duos and group scores.

The interdisciplinary ensemble Cranky Bodies a/company consists of dancers and artists who have been working together in various constellations since 2014.

Cranky Bodies a/company, founded in 2020 by choreographer Peter Pleyer and designer and visual composer Michiel Keuper, with the aim of exploring and reflecting on fundamental questions of non-hierarchical and cross-generational collaboration in a collective and continuous working practice. Methodologically, the company combines improvisational practices of the post-Judson Church era, which no longer sees choreography and improvisation as contradictory, with Susan Leigh Foster’s concept of “improvised choreography” and experimentation with non-hierarchical, collective working methods.
Peter and Michiel’s collaboration began during their studies in Arnhem (NL); their joint projects merge Peter’s choreographic work and Michiel’s visual compositions, including costume and space design.
The group of international performers has been developing joint projects since 2014, such as the HKF-funded ensemble works “Visible Undercurrent” (2014), “Cranky Bodies Dance Reset” (2017), “Terrestrial Transit” (2022) and the German-Polish exchange project “Moving the Mirror”, which has been running since 2016. Her work is continuously supported by DOCK ART Berlin.
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[Source: dock11-berlin.de]

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