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Michael Turinsky: Precarious Moves

This humorous solo performance by Michael Turinsky explores movement, mobility and the connection – and disconnect – between the body and its surroundings.

Michael Turinsky blows onto a paper boat sitting in a pink bowl on the floor, with two empty bottles lying on their sides next to it..

How does a body move when its surroundings are precarious and harmful? In Precarious Moves Michael Turinsky explores this question, looking at resistance and the body through movement, jigsaw building and cocktail mixing.

The performance draws on Turinsky’s personal needs of mobility, alongside the wider urgent need for mobilisation. Turinsky sensitively translates these limitations and boundaries to the audience, as well as finding opportunities to change the status quo.

Michael Turinsky lives and works as a choreographer, performer and theoretician in Vienna. He is interested in the body labelled as ‘disabled’, and its relationship to time and rhythm, gender and sexuality, visibility and invisibility.

Credits Michael Turinsky: performance, choreography, text, lyrics
Tian Rotteveel: music, lyrics
Jenny Schleif: stage, costume
Sveta Schwin: light
Michael Loizenbauer: photo, video
Gabrielle Cram: dramaturgical advice
Anna Gräsel: production

Winner of the Austrian Nestroy Theater Prize for Best Austrian Off-Production in 2021.

A production by Michael Turinsky, supported by Stadt Wien, BMKOES.

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