Tickets
Unfortunately, the performance Work Body has to be canceled due to injury. Tickets already purchased will be refunded.
Run time: 85 minutes
Language: In English and Italian with English and German surtitles
Content notes: The piece highlights different aspects of disabilities.
Sensory notes: Loud noises, haze
Information: The performance of «Work Body» takes place without seating. The audience is free to move around the room. If required, we are happy to provide seating. Please contact us in advance at kasse@dampfzentrale.ch or directly at the box office – we will find a suitable solution together.
Inspired by a poem that Pier Paolo Pasolini dedicated to Antonio Gramsci, co-founder of the Italian Communist Party, Michael Turinsky seeks an answer to the general shift to the right, which is permeated by fantasies of masculinities, in the working-class milieu.
What about the dormant longing to socialise autonomously and with one’s own kind? What about the erotic, but also narcissistic undertones of comradeship and brotherhood? Building, singing, speaking, dancing, opposed to the capitalistically organised division of labour, Turinsky not only subverts the separation of mental and manual labour, but also the boundaries between choreographic intervention, concert and political agitation.
| Vienna-based artist Michael Turinsky has delighted Dampfzentrale audiences before. With his latest performance, which focuses on the resistant materiality of the body, he is guaranteed to enthral us once again. |
The texts for this year’s Tanz in Bern draw from two sources: firstly, what the artists themselves write about their productions, and secondly, how these productions relate to the festival theme pleasurable.
Credits
Concept / Choreography / Text / Performance: Michael Turinsky
Music / Lyrics / Performance: Tian Rotteveel
Set design / Costumes: Jenny Schleif
Design light: Max Rux
Photo / Video: Michael Loizenbauer
Dramaturgical consulting: Chris Standfest
Artistic collaboration: Liv Schellander
Management production: Annna Gräsel
A co-production by: Michael Turinsky – Verein für philiosophische Praxis, Tanzquartier Wien, Theater RAMPE Stuttgart
With the support of Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien and the Bundesministeriums für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport.
