Upcoming

  I offer a child and relationship-centered approach to observing and facilitating infants, and educating parents and caregivers about touch, movement and handling in the first year of life. I bring an approach which is gentle, non-intrusive, and playful rather than demanding. This approach is direct and highly specific to each individual child. My goal is to support a babies agency, comfort, curiosity and movement working together with the family in an interactive process. My intention is to meet each baby and family where they are.   “Olive is a really warm and playful human, who is really easy to…

June 22 18-20.00 Dansverkstæðið Hjarðarhagi 47 Reykjavik In this workshop we will focus on how our cellular structures and vitality support our whole body awareness, and physical capacity for dancing together. Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) as an approach to movement exploration and embodiment founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It is based on experiential learning and uses movement, touch, and voice to explore anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, embryology, and developmental movement. Olive Bieringa is a dance, performance and visual artist working at the intersection of social and creative practice, pedagogy, and healing. She is a teacher, and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a…

July 6-10 10-17:00 every day Østmarka, Oslo SOLD OUT Email everybody@bodycartography.org to get on the waiting list This workshop is an opportunity to center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you.  Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. Together, we will deepen our skills to listen, improvise, play, experiment,  grieve, dwell in the unknown, and…

Ärjän Art Festival 24-26.7.2026 The sixth Ärjän Art Festival will offer international and domestic art from theater and dance to music and contemporary art. The theme of the festival this year is “Light and Resistance”. The festival is organized by the Vaara collective from Kajaani. Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged Earth. Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis.  We must hone our skills, to be receptive, to improvise, to play, to experiment, to grieve, to metabolize,…

ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival This year, curators Deirdre Morris, Sylvia Scheidl, and pavleheidler, engage with embodied practitioners working across genres to explore themes commonly associated with the notion of the interstitial. The interest in the elusive, the tensegral, the emergent, and the relational arises spontaneously (some would say: organically) as we work towards the final instalment in a four-year-long arch dedicated to exploring a range of socio-political, professional, artistic, and therapeutic aspects of touch at the intersection of art, academia, and activism. The LACE Symposium is a practice-based symposium. At LACE Symposium we don’t simply invite artists researchers…