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.
Open rehearsal, Dansens Dager, Scenehuset, Oslo, April 26th. We propose to build a dance installation titled the museum of fluid spaces; a radical embryology laboratory. Using touch and movement as a doorway into our embryological history we will create a series of unfolding dances. Read more
Upcoming workshops in Oslo, Brussels, Lisbon, International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany and weekly Body-Mind Centering class in Oslo. Read more.
Steve Paxton developed “Material for the Spine” in 1986 as an exploration of the movement possibilities within the muscles surrounding the spine, as well as the connections between the head, pelvis, and vertebrae. This solo practice is supported by specific exercises, body puzzles and ideokinetic imagery. Read more
We are very excited to announce the first Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator program in Australia – beginning in Melbourne in October 2019 directed by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad in collaboration withKim Sargent-Wishart. You can learn more about the program here.
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