Michael Turinsky

Michael Turinsky is a Vienna-based physically disabled artist. As a choreographer, theorist and curator, he is one of the most important disabled movement thinkers in the German-speaking world. Academically trained as a philosopher at the University of Vienna, Michael began immersing himself in the field of inclusive dance in 2006. He later questioned the term inclusion and coined his own term, Crip Choreography, to describe his unique artistic practice.

His work engages with the specific, resistant materiality of the body in processes of subversion, de-organisation and re-organisation of dominant movement forms and qualities. His solo work Precarious Moves was awarded the prestigious Nestroy Prize for Best Off-Production in 2021. In 2023, he was honoured as Outstanding Artist by the Austrian Ministry of Culture.