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Munich Biennale: Turn Turtle TurnMusical theatre

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Actors dressed in pink move and dance through the light-flooded Hall E.
Copyright: Judith Buss

In Turn Turtle Turn, the five performers of Oblivia, working with three local singers and the twelve-member ensemble ö! directed by Armando Merino, playfully and pointedly create a grandiose tableau: they meander between the age of dinosaurs and adventure stories, between the Ice Age and parallel worlds, between prehistoric geography and our hunt for fossil resources.

This event is in the past.

In Turn Turtle Turn, the five performers of Oblivia, working with three local singers and the twelve-member ensemble ö! directed by Armando Merino, playfully and pointedly create a grandiose tableau: they meander between the age of dinosaurs and adventure stories, between the Ice Age and parallel worlds, between prehistoric geography and our hunt for fossil resources.

Sometimes coming right up close, sometimes seeming to drift right away, Turn Turtle Turn flows in its search for traces of the status quo of a humanity torn between perpetual (self-)destruction and persistent hope.

  • Composition: Yiran Zhao
  • Concept, direction, dramaturgy, texts: Oblivia
  • Musical direction: Armando Merino
  • Light & stage design: Meri Ekola
  • Costume design: Tua Helve
  • Sound: Zoro Babel
  • Performer (Oblivia): Timo Fredriksson, Anna-Maija Terävä, Annika Tudeer, Juha Valkeapää
  • Singer: Fee Suzanne de Ruiter, Harald Hieronymus Hein, Lukas Siebert
  • Ensemble ö!: violine, artistic direction: David Sontòn Caflisch, flute: Clara Giner, oboe: Marc Bonastre Rui, klarinette: Branko Mlikota, trombone: Adrian Albaladejo Diaz, percussion: Dino Georgeton, piano: Asia Ahmetjanova, violine: Sofiia Suldina, viola: Maria Kropotkina, violoncello: Martina Brodbeck, double bass: Daniel Sailer

Part of the Munich Biennale – Festival for New Music Theatre

 

A co-production of Munich Biennale, Oblivia and Ensemble ö!, in cooperation with the Munich Public Library and other partners. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. In cooperation with Artist in Residence Munich, the residency programme of the City of Munich