Precarious Moves

What if fragility wasn't a weakness, but strength in the making? What if precarious movement became material for dance, thought and resistance? In Precarious Moves, Michael Turinsky prolongs a choreographic and political exploration he began several years ago: that of a body that is situated, vulnerable and indocile, which questions our systems for organizing movement. He draws on the experience of disability, not as a limit, but as a critical tool. The choreographer questions ableist dominant norms and develops an aesthetic of displacement, of precarious gestures, of slowing down, of paying attention. Precarious Moves questions the value our societies attribute to gestures: should we always go hard, fast, far? Counter-rhythmically, each movement sketches out an act of resistance, a sensitive response to dominant narratives. By exposing vulnerability as political power, Michael Turinsky engages in a radical reflection on the way our societies organize and prioritize ableism. An invitation to rethink our ways of moving, seeing and living with other bodies and other speeds.

Michael Turinsky

Michael Turinsky lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. He is interested in an extensive engagement with the specific phenomenology of the body labeled as “disabled”, its specific being-in-the-world, its relationship to temporality and rhythm, affect and affect production, gender and sexuality, visibility and invisibility; and on the other hand in a rigorous engangement with discourses around the productive tension between politics and aesthetics. From 1998 to 2005 he studied philosophy at the University of Vienna.
As a performer he collaborated a. o. with Bert Gstettner – S*Cargo, Soliman*Revisited; Tanz*Hotel All*Inclusive; Barbara Kraus – Fuck all that shit; Legitimate Bodies/Robin Dingemans/ Mick Bryson – The point at which it last made sense; Doris Uhlich – Ravemachine His main choreographic works include heteronomous male (2012), My body, your pleasure (2014) as well as his latest works Second Skin – Turn the beat around (2016), Second Skin – Master of Ceremony (2016), REVERBERATIONS (2018).
His collaboration with Doris Uhlich, Ravemachine was awarded the Nestroy Special Prize 2017. Michael Turinsky held lectures and workshops a. o. at the universities of Linz and Salzburg, at the College Art Association in New York, at Tanzquartier Wien as well as in the frame of the Impulstanz-Festival and he published in various journals.