Everything is spinning. Concerns about global political change are running rampant. With so much right-wing infatuation, one thing above all seems to be at stake: democracy. As if freedom and equality were once again becoming utopian. Our system is in crisis, or at least under very close scrutiny, and the authoritarians are seizing the opportunity. It is above all the longing for power that is causing a stirring maelstrom. And the most important question is: Are you in or out? In the advance of the powerful, everyone must now find their place – in the herd, on the sidelines, or still with the reins in their hands.

Starting point for "Surround"

Based on archetypal spatial arrangements in parliaments, the trilogy "Geometry and Politics" experiments intensively with the theater as a space of experience and deals in three pieces each with architectural spatial settings.

"Surround" as the first production of this series with two acrobats, two dancers, as well as the entire audience on stage deals with democratic ideals in analogy to the circle. In this piece, the stage becomes a performative and walk-in experiential space about the geometry of democracy. Surround plays with the circle: as a natural structure of crowds, as an architectural arrangement, as a parable to democracy. The performers share the stage with the audience to have a common experience. Who does the circle include, who does it exclude?