The BodyCartography Project was founded in 1998 and is co-directed by dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. Our work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work. We engage and provoke audiences in diverse contexts working with independent artists, communities, organizations and scientists. Our work has been presented in Minneapolis, San Francisco, NYC, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America.

Our site-specific work invites participants to enter their animal-like appetites and childlike curiosities for physical investigation through engagement of the sensorial body. We activate space and challenge social and perceptual limitations of physical freedom and imagination.

Our work for the stage or gallery questions the space between the real materials of the body, the architecture, and the hyper real designed materials of video, light, sound and new technologies.

Our work is rooted in the performative, choreographic, filmic and conceptual practices that have emerged over the past century but in particular since the 1960’s. Our work is fed by Body-Mind Centering®, a somatic form of movement research that address’ the anatomy and physiology of the body in an experiential way.  This work puts guts in our dancing and puts our minds in our bodies.

2010 upcoming highlights include two new evening length works and a commission with the Lyon Opera Ballet.