Photographs: Ravemachine © Theresa Rauter, Peter Empl
Ravemachine
In 2016, Doris Uhlich invited the dancer and choreographer Michael Turinsky to work with her in exploring the body, its physicality, energy, and ecstasy. What are the movements that act like batteries for Michael Turinsky to recharge his body? Where does the body depart to while its batteries keep filling up?
Ravemachine is a high-powered, entertaining, and intriguing dance performance that challenges our prevailing associations linked to people with physical impairments. These individuals are rarely identified with the ecstatic release of energy. They are associated with implosion rather than explosion, stagnation rather than progress.
In this collaboration between choreographer, dancer, and performance artist Doris Uhlich and dancer, choreographer, and philosopher Michael Turinsky, the interplay between human and machine, ecstasy and form, charge and discharge comes alive on stage. In sampling the sounds of her partner’s electric wheelchair, and amplifying and translating them into thumping techno beats, Uhlich generates energy that seizes Turnisky and throws him further into dance. Energy from humans and machines are transferred and transformed into a perpetual dance.
Ravemachine is a project in which two different bodies meet and mutually influence each other, exchanging impulses and expanding their own physical biographies.
We shape the dynamics of energy - Michael Turinsky
We search for movements loading the body up like a battery. Theatre is all about sharing, transforming and exchanging energies between all elements – performers, audience, machines and sounds – Doris Uhlich
Ravemachine is a high-powered, entertaining, and intriguing dance performance that challenges our prevailing associations linked to people with physical impairments. These individuals are rarely identified with the ecstatic release of energy. They are associated with implosion rather than explosion, stagnation rather than progress.
In this collaboration between choreographer, dancer, and performance artist Doris Uhlich and dancer, choreographer, and philosopher Michael Turinsky, the interplay between human and machine, ecstasy and form, charge and discharge comes alive on stage. In sampling the sounds of her partner’s electric wheelchair, and amplifying and translating them into thumping techno beats, Uhlich generates energy that seizes Turnisky and throws him further into dance. Energy from humans and machines are transferred and transformed into a perpetual dance.
Ravemachine is a project in which two different bodies meet and mutually influence each other, exchanging impulses and expanding their own physical biographies.
We shape the dynamics of energy - Michael Turinsky
We search for movements loading the body up like a battery. Theatre is all about sharing, transforming and exchanging energies between all elements – performers, audience, machines and sounds – Doris Uhlich
CREDITS
Choreography
Doris Uhlich
Performance
Michael Turinsky & Doris Uhlich
Light
Gerald Pappenberger
Sound advisor
Boris Kopeinig
Production
insert Theaterverein
Co-production
brut
WUK performing arts
insert Theaterverein
Distribution
Something Great
insert (Theaterverein) is funded by the Cultural Department of the City of Vienna.