VISUAL SITE SPECIFIC
Grotest Maru creates theatre in public spaces and is inspired by visual, physical, and object theatre, as well as installation and landart.
UPCOMING
- May 31 / June 1 /// Hut Festival, Propeller, Chemnitz, Cultural Capital of Europe
- June 8/9 /// Karneval der Kulturen, GloBALL, Rasen in Aktion, Berlin
GloBALL
mobile, interactive stilt theatre Football players in oversize transform the globe
created for:
Why easy, if you can make it difficult? Grotest Maru, Berlin’s specialists for verticals theatre, make use of stilts to play football. Six characters create in the middle of the fan fest in Berlin an absurde play around a ball, which is as well our earth. Is the globe fitting into a goal? The Fußballkultursommer Berlin 2024 is conceptualized and produced by Kulturprojekte Berlin in cooperation with Berlin Cultural players and programmer partners.
Global Amazonia
a visual façade performance with live music and live video projections
This site specific performance fuses ancient wisdom with current philosophies and creates a spectacular event for the eye, ear, heart and brain. It brings the topic of climate change to a broad audience in a low-threshold way.
Schwarm
mobile stilt theatre with live sound and live video projections
The audience is guided in an audio-visual expedition through urban or rural sites, being part of a swarm of migrant birds on stilts and experiencing high quality live sound in silent disco headphones.
THE CRANES FLY!
landscape theatre with autobiographic interviews, live acoustics and live video
This performative audio-walk invites the audience to an experiential promenade, connecting narrations about migrating birds with the wider topic of migration. Performative images in the landscape fuse with a soundtrack of interview material and electronic music.
Open training
SPECIAL projects
The KuLe Book is still available!
With numerous images of interventions in public space, early street theatre actions, actual pictures and pics of the beginnings of Grotest Maru and interesting articles of Grotest Maru members.
More information here:
Erinnerungslabor / Storytelling Laboratory
Spreepark 2019
The film
is ready!!!!
Ole Jacobs created and edited a documentation film in collaboration with Grotest Maru.
Homo Botanicus dancing with plants
site specific special at Spreepark Berlin
Spaziert ins Grün! OPEN AIR THEATER Labor
September 2020
6 Stations with productions of Berlin Street Theatre
Artistis
MORE IN 2021!!!
Landpartie 2020
Church meets bus stop - places of encounter
A journey of discovery through the Uecker-Randow-Tal in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and encounters with the expressionist artist Paul Holz, talking bus stops, sounding churches, sunken manor houses and Huguenot tobacco farmers.