Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle: Workshop for Professional Dancers

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. 

The dance follows the story, the „muteology", of the mythological character of the Middle Aged Mutant Ninja Turtle and explores its physicality. This particular workshop, which is part choreography, part somatic exploration is aimed at professional dancers. Sindri Runudde leads this practice in how to engage with the heart and its quality to communicate with our surroundings, our own limbs, objects and thoughts. How can we listen to and generate movements from the heart?

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 explores ways to step out of its shell and meet the world as a soft, humble warrior.