All films are available for $20 for individuals and $50 for institutions. Compilations are available on request. International orders please add international shipping fee of $5 for postage on one dvd. This should cover your entire order if ordering more than one DVD.
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A collaboratve dance film and installation project with choreographer Marila Velloso. A physical investigation of three south American landscapes: the salt flats of northern Argentina, a neighborhood of Salvador and the modern streets of Curitiba.
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Holiday House Triology
113.5 min, USA, 2008
The DVD includes the dance film Holiday House (2005), documentation from the award winning stage (2006) and site specific show (2007).
"The pleasure of viewing is so intense here, so fun as to be nearly guilty...what you see is at once brilliantly planned - lighting, angles, perspectives clear as cinema - and breakneck. The movement feels dangerously unhinged." mspmag.com
“These performers could just as easily run rampant through your house, upending your best-laid plans, haunting your dreams… With sly wit and subtle socio-political commentary, the BodyCartography Project revealed the teeming chaos within the shadows of even the happiest home.” City Pages
"Hoilday House," however, is in a class by itself as the sort of gift that comes not once a year but rarely” minnpost.com
13.5 min, USA, 2007 On holiday the normal sequence of time unravels. Regular activities, chores and spatial awareness of ordinary places are deconstructed or completely altered. In this space of relaxing (or trying to), perception bends. Reality shifts. Apply this condition to your house and home becomes a holiday house.
A film with dance artist and creator of the small dance Steve Paxton. In the midst of standing still something else is occurring. Directed by Olive Bieringa.
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Nicollet Avenue
14 min, USA, 2007 Nicollet Avenue investigates the ecological entwinement of self, other and environment. Two pedestrians travel to the main street of Minneapolis working with live improvised sonic and physical action, interaction and response to several blocks of real estate and real people. Performer Olive Bieringa is joined by multidisciplinary artist Bryce Beverlyn II.
10 min, USA, 2007 Like an alternative music video where the music consists of a bullet rolling across broken cement, three men engage in acts of quiet violence and noisy interaction. plant engages us in a visceral hallucination amidst the ruins of an abandoned munitions factory in Minnesota. This abandoned military facility was designed to manufacture smokeless gunpowder and propellant in 1945. It was in operation for three months before the war came to an end.
21 min + 10 min, USA, 2006 Dry Wash investigates the bodies’ relationship to the sonic, physical and social landscapes of Joshua Tree taking an improvisational approach to pursue both the creation of a dance and a domestic language born of desert living. Played out between the earth and the sky the language of the film is social, gestural and deeply physical, somewhere between a rough cowboy arrogance and a fluid multiplicity that is charged with animal curiosity and reflexivity.
20 min, USA, 2004 Winner of the Merit of Distinction from American Dance Festival Dancing on Camera Festival in 2004! Seawall is a physical and sensorial investigation of the breakwall, water and rocky shore of Lake Superior, the world’s largest fresh water lake in Grand Marais, northern Minnesota. Featuring dancers Morgan Thorson, Kristin Van Loon, Colin Rusch, Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad and musicians Jonathan Zorn and Alan Ernst.
30 min, New Zealand, 2003 A dance film shot in the stunning wilderness of Kahurangi National Park in New Zealand. The mountain is Wharepapa translating from Maori to "house of the mother”. Wharepapa's limestone rockscape, sinkholes, ceaseless wind, snow and grasslands engage us in a physical and sensorial journey that is bold, painterly, elemental and humorous. The dancers are at once animal and everyday people, becoming the mountain's weather, revealing and transforming each crevice, tussock, tarn and boulder.
5 min, USA, 2003 Highly Commended at Kerry Film Festival in 2003!
The kinaesthetic play of light, sound and movement reveal the beauty of a room in an abandoned military bunker. Featuring dancers Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad and musician Shelly Smith.
