TURN is an invitation to dance in dark times. Put on your denim workwear and join Gob Squad in an unconventional ballroom, to explore an ever-shifting constellation of perspectives through conversation, music and movement. Born into and living during a turbulent period of social change, Strauss witnessed political unrest, social mobility, revolution and the transformation of European society that 200 years later seems both distant and familiar. Gob Squad uses this anniversary to present an immersive and expanding search for an alternative society that circulates outwards from the individual, to the ancestral to the cosmic rotation of planets. Always rotating, always revolving.
TURN is made and performed in collaboration with composer Ethan Braun and Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and for everyone who enjoys to participate or just to sit back and watch.
Relaxed dress code: Denim.
Concept
Gob Squad
Composition, Musical Direction and Piano Ethan Braun
Devised and performed by Gob Squad – Johanna Freiburg, Sean Patten, Sharon Smith, Berit Stumpf, Sarah Thom, Bastian Trost, Simon Will
Music and Performance Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop – Mia Bodet, Yodfat Miron, Sophie Notte
Sound Design Julio Zúñiga
Video Design Miles Chalcraft
Set Design Gob Squad, Albertine Mietusch
Costumes Ingken Benesch, Sarah Thom
Lighting Design and Technical Management Chris Umney
Dramaturgy Christina Runge, Johanna Höhmann
Production Christina Runge
Directing Assistance Mica Heilmann
Dramaturgy Assistance Leonie Jenning
Artistic Collaboration Set Albertine Mietusch
Costume Assistance Djuna Reiner
Intern Erik Forsström, intern from Stockholm University of the Arts
Company Management Team Heleen De Boever, Caroline Gentz, Talea Schuré, Grischa Schwiegk
A new production/ world premiere by Gob Squad in co-production with Johann Strauss 2025 Vienna, Burgtheater Vienna, Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg-Platz Berlin and Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.
Supported by Fonds Darstellende Künste with funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media.
Gob Squad Arts Collective are funded institutionally by the Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion.
With friendly support of theaterhaus berlin.
With special thanks to Franz Fillafer, Lisa Hochrainer and the workshops employees of the Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz: Marén Kutschick, Katrin Nowak, Gritt Mrozowski, Manja Koch, Cordula Parthier, Claudia Stritt, Ernst Ausserer, Valentina Gubser, Frank Backmeister, Lucie Erdmann, Rainer Timm, Grete Gehrke, Christian Schwarz, Lea Becker and Levi Herbote.