We regretfully announce that the star of Dancing About has passed away at the ripe old age (for an insect) of 10 months. Maria, a praying mantis, died of natural causes whilst residing in her terrarium in the props department of the Volksbühne in Berlin. Her role has been taken over by her male counterpart, Joseph. You can see Joseph perform live in Dancing About regularly in the Volksbühne's Roter Salon.

Here's some advance warning that we're back in the UK next spring with a masterclass at The Junction, Cambridge. The workshop will offer an insight into the strategies and methods we use when creating new work, touching on the company's approach to using text, video and urban sites. The 4 day workshop runs from 19th - 22nd March. It is open to artists and performers of varying experience. Click here for more info. Application deadline is 7th February. The cost is a recession-busting £80.

We've just about recovered from our jet lag and are back on home turf following September's US West Coast tour of Gob Squad's Kitchen. It was, as they say stateside, a blast. Apart from the occasional walk-out during the show's intimate kiss scene, audiences responded really enthusiastically. The Seattle Times called it a "marvelous, dialectical piece", whilst the Portland Mercury said it was "hilarious, technically ambitious, surprising, thoughtful and wonderful". The L.A. Times critic could have been quoting from a Gob Squad manifesto when he wrote "A magic door separates ordinariness and fabulousness, and anyone under the right heightened circumstances can walk through it. Gob Squad ingeniously reminds us that art may be the catalyst for this transformation, but life supplies the raw goods". Well said, sir!

We're just back from the Open'er Festival in Poland, performing Before Your Very Eyes to 85,000 music fans. Slightly exaggeration there, we were performing to the 200 or so people who made it to the theatre tent every day in between watching the likes of Björk, The XX and Franz Ferdinand on the larger stages. By the way, Franz Ferdinand, if you're reading this, next time you soundcheck your bass and drums, can you please do it when we are not in the fragile and poignant end bit of Before Your Very Eyes? It did rather spoil it slightly. The performances went very well, despite overheating video projectors and a surplus of mud. The young Belgian performers thoroughly enjoyed their first open-air festival and have now returned home to hot baths and comfortable beds.

Our latest project, a return to our site-specific roots, premiered successfully on Saturday 3rd June in Berlin's 5000 seater Steffi Graf Tennis Stadium. The piece forms part of Infinite Jest - 24 hours through the utopian West, a sleep-defying tour produced by Hebbel am Ufer which transposes David Foster Wallace's 1000+ page novel onto some of Western Berlin's architectural treasures. Performances continue on every Wednesday and Saturday this June.