Since 2024, Oblivia has been working with and on ideas, visions and concepts of the Anthropocene, developing experimental music theatre productions within the frame of their Turn Turtle Turn cycle. 2026 will see the final production of the Turn Turtle Turn works with the new piece Dreaming Turtles, in which four performers will become just that: dreaming, floating, dancing and singing turtles.

Together with the Swiss ensemble KlangLab, Oblivia invites the audience into a world that brings back some of the serenity as well as the playfulness the earth last saw before humans entered the scene – and maybe will again after we’re gone. Yet Dreaming Turtles is not a depressing piece by far, because within that dreamlike, imaginative approach to life that the turtles share with us lies a speck of hope that shimmers for humanity still – a possibility and a promise which lies in community and kindness.

CREDITS

Concept, devising, dramaturgy: Oblivia
On stage: Oblivia / Timo Fredriksson, Anna-Maija Terävä, Annika Tudeer, Juha Valkeapää; Yiran Zhao: electronics & KlangLab / Dino Georgeton: electric oud and percussion; Christopher Moy: e-guitar; Zacarias Maia: objects and percussion
Music: Yiran Zhao & KlangLab
Sound design: Mikael Szafirowski
Light and set design: Stine Hertel
Costume design: Tua Helve
Production: Jenny Nordlund
Communication: Essi Brunberg and RÖD (Jenni Salminen and Katja Tolonen); in Germany Nassrah-Alexia Denif
Co-producers: KlangLab (Basel), Klang Festival (Copenhagen), Gare du Nord (Basel)
Supported by:?Arts Promotion Centre Finland, Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland, City of Helsinki, Konstsamfundet, Stiftelsen Tre Smeder, Samuel Hubers konststiftelse, Abteilung Kultur Basel-Stadt, Eugène, Elisabeth och Birgit Nygréns stiftelse

Premiere | 8 June 2026, Klang Festival Copenhagen Experimental Music

Photo: Santiago Villar