Michael Turinsky & Sonja Browne
The Narcissus Project - Composing Physical Difference

Narcissus Project - Composing physical difference Performance danse brute sunday July 24, 2011 „narcissus project“ (choreography Michael Turinsky) Based on the planned performance on July 24 participants are invited to explore specific compositional challenges of radical physical difference in the frame of physical training, improvisations, short choreographic sequences and shared reflections. The main focus is on the working processes of the dance collective danse brute in gerneral and of the work of the Viennese dance maker Michael Turinsky in particular. Participants will thus become dance makers for a weeklong process of the development of a inclusive dance piece. A performance phrase will be developed and shown on the last day of the workshop. „[I]f we don’t acknowledge the differences between disabled and non-disabled dancers we lose lifetimes of experience and difference beneath a blanket of good intention. It is the acknowledgement of difference and the resolution or exploration of the problems that arise from it that invigorate the work.“ (Adam Benjamin, Making an entrance: theory and practice for disabled and non-disabled dancers)