source: mnartists.org
authour: Lightsey Darst
date: June 7th 2012
Lightsey Darst describes the experience of engaging BodyCartography Project’s recent installation/work-in-progress at the Walker – “Super Nature” – which explores the nuance of interpersonal relation, attempting to “choreograph empathy.”
author: Tony Wagner
source: MN Daily
date: June 2 2012
When I talked to Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad about their performance installation at the Walker Art Center, they told me the basics but kept the details a secret. The duo that makes up the BodyCartography project would only divulge that the installation was an experiment for their upcoming “Super Nature” show, and that the performance would involve a ten-minute, one-on-one interaction between a performer and an audience member in an empty gallery.
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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