Source: City Pages
Author: Sheila Regan
Date: February 23, 2011
Science meets art on Thursday for a unique installation at the Bell Museum led by choreographer Olive Bieringa ofBodyCartography Project. Part of an artist-in-residence program at the museum, Bieringa has spent the last month talking to scientists and developing an installation called Proximity that explores social boundaries, personal space, and animal behavior.
Source: MPR
February 23, 2011
Author Euan Kerr
Olive Bieringa doesn’t pull her punches when it comes to the local audience. “People in Minnesota are nice, but I think there is a little anxiety about proximity and intimacy,” she says. Bieringa, (shown here in a previous work) is co-director of the Body Cartography Project will be looking to pokeat some of those anxieties with an evening called “Proximity” at the Bell Museum at the U of M’s Minneapolis campus tomorrow night. It’s the latest Bell Museum Social, which presents an artist in residence in the context ofthe Bell’s natural history displays.
Learn about our residency at the Norsk Teknisk Museum and our current project we are develioping for the new medical galleries for April 2021. Read more.
TanzFabrik offers an online workshop and research opportunity with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad.
We are looking for dancers who are interested in a process which will begin as a workshop and will evolve into a series of site based investigations. We will research how embodied embryological knowledge can grow a dance that transforms the way we, performers and audience alike, experience our own bodies/selves/environment. Interested individual participants or pods please apply by 8th of January. The spaces are limited to 25. Read more.
closer lays bare the power of physicality and presence through a series of one-on-one performances, for one dancer and one audience, in public space. Together we play with how the meeting between performer and audience generates the possibility for something new. The work will be mounted with performers Josie Archer, Kosta Bogoievski and Footnote for the tenth anniversary of the Performance Arcade.
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