SPIELART Festival: WORK BODY

"Rise up! Swing yourself up! Work it!" Austrian choreographer Michael Turinsky builds a concert stage - for himself and for Antonio Gramsci (1891 - 1937), the co-founder of the Italian Communist Party. As a worker in dungarees and safety shoes, hammering and singing, Michael Turinsky connects the "disabled" with the "working" body and thus, 90 years after Gramsci's death, creates a "counterculture" as a choreographic response to hegemonic fantasies of masculinity. Gathered in a circle around the performer, the audience witnesses a concentrated physical process - sometimes in silent observation, sometimes with enthusiastic applause. Shifting between political agitation and performative gesture, a radically decelerated, minimalist evening unfolds, opening up an empathetic and at the same time critical view of the current shift to the right in the working class milieu.

WORK BODY is one of two productions FOR ALL selected by the Advisory Board for Accessibility appointed by SPIELART and in which barriers have been comprehensively removed. You can find more information on this under Accessibility.