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Summary/Abstract: Irmer claims that the first dance performance by Gob Squad – Dancing About (Volksbühne am Rosa Luxemburg Platz in Berlin, premiere: 8.11.2012) – is actually a return to the group's earlier preoccupations. The author draws attention to the interesting function of the dead insect in the play, symbolizing the idea of the play: "There is something very expressive in the fact that tiny praying mantis appears – expanded to the size of a vast picture – […] as a symbolic animal who appears to speak, act, and even pray with the other performers.” Irmer ultimately opines, however, that "in a little under ninety minutes the performance has little more to offer than theatrical experiments that were fashionable fifteen years back in clubs."

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