Author: Bernadette Rae Source: New Zealand Herald 5:00 AM Friday Aug 8, 2014 The opening work in this most mesmerising of programmes begins with a filmed section projected on to a…
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Source: Theaterreview.org.nz Author: Dr Linda Ashley Date: August 7, 2014 Undertide, by NZ/USA Minnesota-based directors of the BodyCartography Project Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, is a sepia study of dynamic sustainment and…
Source: mn.artists blog July 17, 2014 BodyCartography co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad speak with HIJACK collaborators Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder about some of the many behind-the-scenes variables that go into…
Author: Karl Cronin Date: June 20, 2014 I sat in the audience. I didn’t know where to begin. He was stretching his arms up, and then gathering them in again. There…
Author: Julia MilsomSource: Theater ReviewDate: June 7 2014 Should dance be a consumer product spoon fed to us to brighten up our day like soft serve television? Or, can dance be something that…
Author: Val SmithSource: Theater ReviewDate: June 6 2014 At the opening of Footnote New Zealand Dance’s new season of original works by New Zealand choreographers at the Herald Theatre in Auckland, NOW 2014,…
Author: Sam TrubridgeSource: Theater ReviewDate: May 30 2014 The new Hannah Playhouse opened its doors last night for the first ever Footnote New Zealand Dance NOW season. While this mixed bill format has been…
Minnesota-based choreographer Olive Bieringa was back in New Zealand recently to work with Footnote Dance on their ‘Now’ series. She tells Eva Radich about her approach. Click to listen.
Source: Critical Correspondence March 12, 2014 BodyCartography co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad speak with HIJACK collaborators Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder about the premiere of HIJACK’s premiere of…
Author: Nichole Jankowski Source: V Magazine Date: October 2013 There is no journey that grips the imagination of the American people more profoundly that the trip from east to west….
Author: Sheila Regan, Behind the Story Source: TC Daily Planet Date: June 23, 2013 After Outlet, I headed over to the I-94 underpass near the Basilica to see BodyCartography Project,…
Author: Michael J. Kramer Source: CULTURE ROVER: PROMISCUOUS CULTURAL CRITICISM Date: October 2013 “And all I gotta do is act naturally.” — written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, sung…
Author: Camille Le Fevre Source: MNartists.blog Laurie Van Wieren has done something wonderful and original with her newest curatorial project, Monday Live Arts: She’s made the making of performance fun, enlightening,…
Author: Douglas Wolk Source: Wired.com Date: 09.13.13 ST. PAUL – The first sign of unusual life at tonight’s Station to Station show was parked outside Union Depot: Kate Casanova’s “Vivarium…
Author: Sheila Regan Source: City Pages Date: August 21, 2013 The Soap Factory has a history of including dance and performance art as part of its programming. There’s the WorkHorse…
Author: Lightsey Darst Source: MNartists.org Date: July 1, 2013 The template – beautiful people, beautifully filmed with a sketch of a story or character – is identical. In feature films,…
Author: Michele Steinwald Source: walkerart.org Date: June 10, 2013 When I asked a room filled with my peers to imagine an ideal future for presenting contemporary dance performances, they agreed…
Source: Bachtrack Author: Ivan Talijancic Date: January 23rd, 2013 I promise I am not late – the house lights are up and the performance has not formally begun. And yet, the…
Source: CulturebotAuthor: Jeremy M. BarkerJanuary 8, 2013 “We had another show we did in New York at the COIL Festival in 2009, called Holiday House,” Otto Ramstad, half of the core…
Author: Jessica Fiala Source:blogs.walkerart.org Date: October 29, 2012 A SpeakEasy is an informal audience discussion facilitated by a Walker tour guide and a local performer or choreographer. Today’s edition highlights themes…
Source: The Green Room, Walker Art Center blog Author: Michele Steinwald Cutting-edge dance artists “tend to explore anything that transports them closer to the inside, closer to an understanding of…
BodyCartography, with a premiere at the Walker this weekend, boldly explores both inner and outer landscapes. Article by: Kristin Tillotson Source: Star Tribune Even while recoiling in distaste, professional dancers exude grace….
Author: Peter WitrakDate: January, 22, 2009Source: danceonpaper.com Holiday House is a playful performance that rarely lets go of your attention, like a wayward toddler whose silly antics turn the living…
In this somatic/improvisation/site workshop taught by Otto Ramstad we invite participants to enter their animal-like appetites and childlike curiosities for physical investigation through engagement of the sensing and feeling body in action. 
Are you interested in unraveling the mystery of our embryological development as it relates to cellular consciousness, movement, mind and spirit? Certified Teachers of Body-Mind Centering® Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad will lead Thursday afternoon Embryology classes in Minneapolis through July.
Spiral & Spine with Otto Ramstad at Tanzfabrik, Berlin. This workshop explores the manifold manifestations of spirals and spiraling motion in our body, in particular the movement possibilities of the spine. It brings together a range of practices: Body-Mind Centering®, Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, and Improvisation.
The second phase of Olive's performance installation "felt room" will take place at the White Page Gallery in Minneapolis, June 29 + 30th.