Peter Pleyer

Since my studies I have worked closely with the Hungarian dancer Eszter Gal, our choreographies and improvisations have been shown in Holland, Germany, Hungary, Paris and at the New York improvisation festival. In the Netherlands I choreographed my first group pieces (selected for the choreography completions Groningen/NL). Since 2000 I live in Berlin with a strong interest in new methods of training dance and composition, where improvisation plays a central role. Out of my interest in the newly developing dance-research programs in different universities I developed the lecture performance „choreographing books“ (2005) on my view of the difference in the dance research in the US and Europe, and how that can be beneficial for dancers and choreographers.

I teach internationally, my workshop „history in practice“ that focused strongly on the „post-judson-avantgarde“ was held in the Alternative Dance Academy in Poznan, P.O.R.C.H.- Stolzenhagen, the Polish Theatre-Institut, Warsaw, MA Choreography ArtEZ/ Arnhem, HZT-Berlin and Tanzquartier Wien. From 2007-14 I was the artistic director of Tanztage Berlin and from 2012 -14 in the programming team of Sophiensæle/Berlin. In 2014 I successfully picked up my choreographic career with the solo „Ponderosa Trilogy“ (Life-Legacy-Project Tanzhaus NRW, Impulstanz Wien), group research and choreography „visible undercurrent“ (2014/16) and „cranky bodies dance reset“ (2017) and the ongoing exchange Project between Warsaw and Berlin „Moving the Mirror“ (2015-2022).  The solo „triton tanzt – twisted trident“ about the history of release technique, deconstructing masculinity and the death of my father, I performed in Berlin and Prag (2019/20) I was a guest professor at HZT/UdK Berlin in 2015/16.