Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle: Dance workshop for individuals with visual impairment or blindness

The workshop takes place according to the principle of Disabled Leadership. The workshop is beeing held by a person who identifies as disabled.

Somewhere in the middle of your life, you have lived and gained information and experiences. You should be on your top: a strong, outgoing „Ninja-Turtle”. But all you feel is the opposite. You feel more lost and hesitant than ever, unable to reach out and move forwards, even though your body is full of lived experience. You hide yourself in your shell.


This workshop is about encouraging you, that there is always something to move and you do it in your own way. Instead of submitting to a uniform beat, the dance plays with varying rhythms, maybe staying with a movement too long, or doing something a bit too late. In other words: on your own terms or your own timing. Choosing sitting as the original position challenges the idea that dance has to be practiced standing up.

The dance tells the story, the „muteology", of the mythological character of the Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle and explores its physicality. In a somatic praxis you come to dancing trough the senses of touch and listening. The dance is moving from the heart and questions how one can listen and generate movements from here. 


The workshops practices a soft form of resistance, meeting the world with a strong back, soft front, wild heart. The Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle is looking for ways to step out of its shell and meet the world as a soft, humble warrior.