I know I am different from you. We have different beliefs, different experiences, different languages and bank account balances, and the world receives and labels us in different ways. But we are all here to dance – together or alone – to defy a world that is in the process of tearing itself apart by polarising us. Can we still come together – especially now?
For our 30th anniversary, Gob Squad want to share our collective practice, stage and authorship and take our neighbours to the dance floor. Based on the rules of our performance “Dancing About”, where every individual confession is turned into a dance, we search each night anew in unusual constellations: what brings us together and what divides us? In a performative disco, we honestly and playfully explore questions of identity and celebrate our diversity and similarities through dance.
If I say “We are poorer than our parents”, will you dance along?
Concept by Gob Squad
Performed and co-created by Nawid Ahmadi, Gizem Akman, Oska Borcherding, Johanna Freiburg, Mo Mara Hundt, Fatina Jaber, Mmakgosi Kgabi, Jacqueline Koch, Jenin Abdul Majid, Sabine Müller, Sean Patten, Lamisha Rahman, Salma Salaheldin, Mike Schäfer, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will
Artistic Support: Katharina Joy Book
Video Design: Miles Chalcraft
Sound Design: Sebastian Bark, Tatiana Saphir,
Sound and Video Collaborator: Tama-Nomi Jacobi
Costume and Scenography: Emma Cattell, Sarah Thom
Costume Collaborator: Jola Hauschild
Translation: Aya Zavê Khalil, Niusha Ramzani, Mahtab Sabetara, Salma Salaheldin
Lighting Design: Claes Schwennen
Technical Director: Claes Schwennen
Production Management: Heleen De Boever
Supervisor Outreach/Communication: Nora Vollmond
Evaluation: Ayla Suveren
Thanks to:
all neighbours from Mehringplatz, F1 Stadtteilzentrum, Quartiersmanagement Mehringplatz, Common Wealth Theatre, Theaterhaus Mitte, Azadeh Ganjeh, Mat Hand, Tina Pfurr, Laura Tonke, Stella Konstantinou and the HAU to connect Team, all volunteers from the workshops and tryouts, who supported us with the development of the project.
Dancing with our Neighbours is a production by Gob Squad. In coproduction with HAU Hebbel am Ufer. Funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes. Gefördert von der Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
World Premiere 27. May 2024 at HAU 2, Hebbel-am-Ufer Berlin
