Auckland, April 2017 DANZ magazine By embodying the process of embryological development, we discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, the ability to respond and to be present” EMBRYOLOGICAL…
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Interview Anna Freeman for Odyssey Works March 7th 2016 Odyssey Works: How did you come up with the concept of closer, and how did the idea develop from there? What are…
Source: Condo Magazine Founded in 1997 in San Francisco, the BodyCartography Project uses dance to explore embodiment and stimulate aliveness. From performances to installations, from films to curatorial projects Olive Bieringa and…
BodyCartography Project’s Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad interview master improviser, Lisa Nelson, who recently performed with Steve Paxton at the Walker Art Center. By Olive Bieringa for mn.artists.org November 24,…
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…
Contact Quarterly Summer/Fall 2000 Download the article
Forward 110: Architecture and the Body
author: Olive Bieringa
An article about our works relationship to space and architecture citing examples 1/2 Life, GO, Holiday House and new work Closer. Check out the cover featuring the 1/2 Life installation constructed by Emmett Ramstad.
Texts from participants of the “Special Places and Choreography” Choreography Conference which took place at the University for Music and Dance Cologne, Germany in June 2009 and available from Amazon….
New book on site dance featuring writing from the BodyCartography Project
Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces
author: Otto Ramstad
date: 03/25/06
source: Contact Quarterly
The senses develop in sequence: kinesthetic, touch, smell and taste, and then vision. When our vision is developing we associate it with all the other sensations that we have that have more fully developed.
author: Olive Bieringa with Otto Ramstaddate: June 2004source: Contact Quarterly This article was published in Contact Quarterly in 2004, Vol 29, Number 2 and appears on behalf of CQ I…
Te Papa’s commission Walk With Me
Immediate, personal, physical – this immersive movement tour will transform the way you experience art. Learn more and book
performances on tour
Weisman Art Museum will present action movie, felt room and Lineage in July and August 2018. Read more
Vital Contact workshop in Philadelphia June 23rd & June 24th
This workshop will focus on how bodies move while in physical contact with each other while focusing on the physical laws that govern motion: mass, gravity, momentum and inertia. Together we will gather deep support from our organs. which provide us with our sense of vitality, full-bodiedness, and organic authenticity. They support our survival, our postural tone and our feelings, and give volume to our movement. Together we will initiate breath, voice, movement and touch from our organs to explore dancing together that is both meditative and acrobatic. Read more here
the place of space (working title)
Will use movement and touch as the doorways into our collective embryological history. Research towards a new dance work began as part of Mind the Gap in Oslo and will continue at the Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota in 2018. We are seeking University of Minnesota pre-med or medical student with interest in embryology. Read more.
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