You are invited to register for a three-day movement workshop in Hồ Chí Minh= City with Michael Turinsky – an Austrian choreographer and theorist whose practice revolves around disability – politics – aesthetics.

Ideal participants are expected to attend all three days:

• Friday evening, March 27: 5:00PM - 9:00PM
• Saturday afternoon, March 28: 1:00PM - 6:00PM
• Sunday afternoon, March 29: 1:00PM - 6:00PM

Language: English (Vietnamese and sign language interpretation available)
Participation fee: Free
Capacity: 10–12 participants

Accessibility:

• The venue has elevators and accessible pathways
• A volunteer team with expertise supporting people with diverse disabilities
• Participants with disabilities who are accepted will receive transportation support

Registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/KsT15xWDHH
Deadline: 11:55AM on March 17, 2026
Results will be announced within 3 days.

Workshop content:

What if we imagine our bodies as mountains, valleys, rivers, treetops, stones, lakes, and ocean waves?

What if the stage is a canvas?

What if we slow down completely to fully experience the layers of our senses – hearing, seeing, smelling, touching – intertwining and connecting the body with its environment?

Drawing from his artistic practice, as well as referencing the recent book Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor, physically disabled choreographer Michael Turinsky invites participants — both disabled and non-disabled — to explore the relationship between body and landscape through sensory and ethical dimensions.

Through improvisational exercises, we will activate multisensory awareness. We will use choreographic language to explore the dimensions of our bodies in relation to the surrounding environment: breath, gravity, giving and receiving weight, vibration, oscillation, and waves.

The workshop will also explore voice and/or sign language within choreographic practice. Beginning with creative writing exercises, participants will be invited to share their perspectives through both verbal and non-verbal forms of expression.

Participants: Ages 16 and above.
The organizers especially encourage participants with mobility disabilities, hearing impairments, and visual impairments to apply. The program will strive to provide the necessary support throughout the workshop.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR MICHAEL TURINSKY

Michael Turinsky is an artist and theorist living and working in Vienna (Austria), and he is physically disabled. His practice sits at the intersection of contemporary dance, performance art, disability studies, and political and aesthetic theory.

Academically trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Michael began working in inclusive dance in 2006.

Later, he began to question the very concept of “inclusion” and proposed his own term, “crip choreography,” to describe his unique artistic practice: an approach that works with the materiality of the body — specific and resistant — to overturn, deconstruct, and reorganize dominant forms of movement.

Known for his distinctive aesthetic language, ironic references to popular culture, musicality, and intellectual rigor, Michael’s major choreographic works include: Heteronomous male (2012), My body, your pleasure (2014), Reverberations (2018), Precarious Moves (2021), SOILED (2022).

His solo work “Precarious Moves” received the prestigious Nestroy Award for Best Off-Production in 2021.

In 2024, Michael Turinsky was honored as an “Outstanding Artist” by the Austrian Ministry of Culture and Arts.

Website: michaelturinsky.org.

During this visit, Michael Turinsky will meet audiences and artists in Vietnam through workshops and talks in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City initiated by the Goethe-Institut.

DON’T MISS:

THE BEAUTY OF IRREGULARITY: A conversation about art for every body (talk and documentary screening)

• Monday, March 30 at 7:00PM.
• 2nd Floor, Deutsches Haus, 33 Lê Duẩn, Saigon Ward, HCMC.
• Registration details will be announced soon.

The activities in Ho Chi Minh City are organized through collaboration between the Goethe-Institut Ho Chi Minh City and the social enterprise Đời Rất Đẹp (DrD Vietnam), with support from EMASI Nam Long.

For inquiries about the program, please contact: thanhtoan.doan@goethe.de

Top image: Performance “Work Body” by Michael Turinsky.
Photo: Loizen Bauer.