Bodyscape

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 engagement 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 among others with Bert Gstettner – SCargo, SolimanRevisited; TanzHotel AllInclusive; Barbara Kraus – Fuck all that shit; Legitimate Bodies/Robin Dingemans/Mick Bryson – The point at which it last made sense; and Doris Uhlich – Ravemachine.

His main choreographic works include heteronomous male (2012), My body, your pleasure (2014), as well as his later works Second Skin – Turn the beat around (2016), Second Skin – Master of Ceremony (2016), and REVERBERATIONS (2018).
His collaboration with Doris Uhlich, Ravemachine, was awarded the Nestroy Special Prize 2017.

Michael Turinsky has delivered lectures and workshops at the universities of Linz and Salzburg, at the College Art Association in New York, at Tanzquartier Wien, as well as within the frame of the ImPulsTanz Festival, and he has published in various journals.

Website: michaelturinsky.org