Precarious Moves by Michael Turinsky
In-venue Programme
Date
18 March 2026 (Wed), 8pm*
Venue
Limited Time Offer
2 December 2025, 10am – 23 December 2025, 11:59pm
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Approx. 60 minutes with no interval
Performed in English
Recommended for ages 6 and above
Subtitles and accessible captions in Chinese and English audio description and caption reading in Cantonese, and house programme in audio format; guide dogs welcome
A playful, thought-provoking solo performance exploring different kinds of human rhythm and time
Vienna-based Michael Turinsky’s semi-biographical solo performance is a playful, thought-provoking exploration of identity, gesture and the choreography of resistance.
Blending philosophical reflections with humour, dance and song, Precarious Moves urges us to consider how a body sets itself in motion when its relation to the environment appears fundamentally precarious. At the centre of the work is the question of personal and collective needs, and how we can mobilise for different forms of mobility and different kinds of rhythms. Tying in the concept of crip time, Turinsky contemplates our expectations for the disabled body to conform to existing systems of mobilisation and speed.
Sometimes light, sometimes dark, Precarious Moves unfolds as an organic and organised meditation on the connection between the body and the sensual world through which it moves – letting the untamed gesture open our sensitivities and discover its choreographic milieu.
Precarious Moves premiered at Tanzquartier Wien in 2021, and was awarded the prestigious Nestroy Prize for Best Off-Production the same year. In 2024 Michael Turinsky was named Outstanding Artist by the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture.
Michael Turinsky
Michael Turinsky is a Vienna-based, physically disabled artist and theoretician, working at the intersection of contemporary dance and performance, disability, and political and aesthetic theory. Trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Turinsky has worked in the world of inclusive dance since 2006, coining the term “crip choreography” for his unique practice of engaging the specific, resistant materiality of the body in processes of subverting and re-organising dominant forms and qualities of movement. He is also interested in the “aesthetics of access” and exploring the intricate relationship between dance and ecology.
Turinsky’s main choreographic works include “Heteronomous Male” (2012), “My Body, Your Pleasure” (2014), “Reverberations” (2018), “Precarious Moves” (Awarded the Nestroy Prize for Best Off-Production 2021) and “SOILED” (2022). His commitment to teaching, education and theoretical practice has resulted in numerous workshops, lectures, interventions and publications within various contexts, and in 2024 Turinsky was named Outstanding Artist by the Austrian Ministry of Arts and Culture.
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2 December 2025, 10am – 23 December 2025, 11:59pm
20% discount on all full-price tickets.
Limited quota available.
From 2 December 2025, 10am
Half-price tickets are available for fulltime students, people with disabilities and a companion and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients. Concessionary ticket holders must produce evidence of their identity upon admission.
From 24 December 2025, 00:00am
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A production by Michael Turinsky, Verein fur philosophische Praxis
Co-production by Tanzquartier Wien and HAU Hebbel am Ufer
Supported by Stadt Wien and BMKOES
