Our artistic and educational work cultivates tools for collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis. Through somatic, dance, choreographic and curatorial practice we work with resonant, relational and regenerative approaches that support the vital materiality of bodies, minds, and the more-than-human world.
Resisting Extinction is presented by Reality Research Center and the University of the Arts and performed at Mustavuori Forest, Helsinki, Hellebæk Skov for Passage Festival, Helsingør, Denmark, Athalassa Park for On Bodies Festival, Dancehouse Lefkosia, Cyprus, and presented by Nurt Foundation in the Valley of the Seven Mills, Szczecin, and along the Vistula River, Warsaw, Poland. The audio version is also presented at the Kaatsbaan Annual Festival, Tivoli, New York.
Blikkfanger, a movement based tour for class groups is commissioned for the National Museum in Oslo through DKS.
TOGETHERING is performed at St. Hanshaugen Sommerbibliotek, Knud Knudsens Plass, Oslo.
The second Østmarka Ecosomatics Immersion takes place in Oslo.
Resisting Extinction selected by Perform Europe as one of 42 touring project focused on green touring and accessibility.
weather walk is presented at Kehä Festival, Oulu, Finland.
Circling the Line (work in progress) is shown at Tanzhaus Temporär, Kassel, and at Black Box during Oktoberdans, BIT Teatergarasjen, Bergen.
Resisting Extinction is pitched at Norway Now, presented by the Royal Norwegian Consulate General and Performing Arts Hub Norway, New York City.
The first Østmarka Ecosomatics Immersion takes place in Oslo.
Resisting Extinction is presented at the Performance Arcade, Central Park, Wellington, New Zealand, and at Merimetsa, Tallinn, Estonia, in collaboration with Tantsuruum.
Resisting Extinction undertakes a Nordic Residency at SITE, Sweden, followed by performances at Bærum Kulturhus and Bygdøy, Oslo.
a collection of fluid spaces premieres at the Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo.
closer (solo) is remounted for the 10th anniversary of the Performance Arcade, Wellington, New Zealand.
Resisting Extinction premieres in Trondheim with DansiT and is presented in Bygdøy, Oslo, and at DanseFestival Barents, Hammerfest.
a collection of fluid spaces continues in residency at the Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo.
Lineage is presented at Oslo International Theatre Festival.
a collection of fluid spaces continues in residence at the Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo.
TOGETHERING is commissioned by the Oslo Art Council for Schous Plass, Oslo.
Lineage is presented at KHiO, Oslo.
felt room is created for Carle Lange’s Live ReMake, KHiO, Oslo.
Follow is loaned to Auckland Art Gallery and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery / Len Lye Centre, New Plymouth, New Zealand.
Somatic Education Australia launches the first professional Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator certification in Australasia.
Follow is developed and acquired for Te Papa Tongarewa, the National Museum of New Zealand, its first intangible dance work for the permanent collection.
felt room, Lineage, and action movie are presented at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Weisman Art Museum.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen’s Embryological Foundations of Movement workshop is hosted in Auckland, New Zealand.
felt room and Lineage are in residence at the Perlman Teaching Museum, Carleton College.
action movie is presented at Art Shanty Projects and the Performance Arcade, New Zealand.
Dark Ecology and Conjuring Space, Conjuring Love are commissioned for Carleton College students.
BodyCartography is in residence at Carleton College.
Vital Matters Dance Festival launches in Minneapolis, premiering ten new works alongside workshops and public programming.
action movie premieres at Vital Matters Dance Festival.
Lineage work-in-progress showings take place in Norway and Minnesota.
Vital Matters is commissioned by Wayne State University students
Something for Myself is commissioned Young Dance.
SEEDS Festival is reignited at Earthdance.
Headlands Center for the Arts alumni residency
closer tours to the Performance Arcade, New Zealand with Footnote, and the Chicago Cultural Center.
Embodied Performance Intensives begin in Minneapolis and Berlin.
closer premieres in Minneapolis and is featured on PBS NewsHour, in partnership with Northern Lights, Minnesota Museum of American Art, Walker Art Center, Loring Alley Rally, Minneapolis City Hall, and the Red Eye Theater.
Super Nature tours to Kelly Strayhorn Theatre’s New Moves Festival, Pittsburgh, and Dance Place, Washington, DC.
Future Interstates performance series is established at the Cowles Center for Dance & the Performing Arts in collaboration with Hijack.
Super Nature tours to TBA Festival, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art.
Undertide, a short film and performance, is commissioned by Touch Compass
Low is commissioned by Footnote New Zealand
Residencies take place at War<so>Vie Festival, Warsaw, and Nash Gallery, Minneapolis.
Softening the Curves of the City is commissioned by Bedlam, St Paul.
City Pages names BodyCartography “Best Dance Company of the Twin Cities.”
Residency at the Soap Factory, Minneapolis.
Underpass is commissioned by The City of Minneapolis.
Symptom tours to CounterPulse, San Francisco.
Super Nature tours to American Realness and COIL Festival at Performance Space 122, NYC, and is presented by the City of Chicago’s Department of Cultural Affairs.
Something for Myself screens on MNTV.
Super Nature residency and installation at the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis.
Super Nature is presented by TanzLaboratorium at Karas Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Something for Myself, a short film, is commissioned by Young Dance, Minneapolis.
Super Nature residencies at ImPulsTanz, Vienna), Lilyspring, Wisconsin, and Studio 206, Minneapolis.
Symptom premieres in New York City at COIL Festival, Performance Space 122.
Symptom premieres at Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, followed by a residency at MANCC, Florida.
BodyCartography is awarded a McKnight Fellowship.
Mammal, commissioned by Lyon Opera Ballet, premieres at Les Subsistances, Lyon, France.
1/2 Life premieres at the Southern Theater, Minneapolis, and tours to Performance Space 122, NYC.
Holiday House tours to COIL Festival, Performance Space 122, NYC.
Residency at K3 Zentrum für Choreographie, Hamburg, Germany.
Curators for the Walker Art Center’s Choreographer’s Evening.
Performance tour for Dan Graham: Beyond at the Walker Art Center.
1/2 Life installation opens at Art of This Gallery, Minneapolis.
Hello Nervous System is presented at PanCreas Festival, Copenhagen and Aarhus, Denmark.
GO tours to Anti-Festival, Finland, and Strømmerien, Zurich.
Named Artists of the Year by City Pages.
Station/Stationary commissioned Cheshire Dance for Crewe Train Station, UK.
Entreterritorios, a dance film and installation made with Marila Velloso, is filmed in northern Argentina and Brazil.
Named Sustainable Art Making Fellows by Public Art Saint Paul.
Hello Nervous System is presented at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC.
Holiday House (site version) receives an Outstanding Performance Award from the Minnesota Sage Awards.
1/2 Life residency at Kyoto Art Center, Japan.
GO, Modern Efficiency, and Hello Nervous System are presented at Gare au Théâtre, Paris.
Holiday House and Plant screen on MNTV, Minnesota.
Holiday House is commissioned by the Walker Art Center’s Momentum Series and wins the People’s Choice Award at the Minnesota Sage Dance Awards.
Residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin County, California.
Seawall receives a Certificate of Distinction from the American Dance Festival’s Dancing for the Camera Festival.
ROOM is highly commended in the Experimental Category at the Kerry Film Festival, Ireland.
Wharepapa screens on MNTV, Minnesota.
Wharepapa is filmed in the South Island wilderness of Aotearoa New Zealand.
LAGOON commissioned by Lambton Harbour Management which wins the Pelorous Trust Creativity Award at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.
LAGOON wins Best Outdoor Performance at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.
ROOM, a dance film work is created during a residency at Centrum near Port Townsend, Washington,
Chaffers Marina performance receives the Best Outdoor Performance Award at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.
Burning Man funds the BodyCartography Project to create a seven-day interactive performance event in the Nevada desert.
Otto Ramstad joins Olive Bieringa as Co-Director.
The first large-scale BodyCartography Intensive takes place in Wellington, New Zealand, as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival, comprising twenty-three site-based performance events and functioning as an open laboratory for performers of all abilities.
Olive Bieringa founds the BodyCartography Project in San Francisco. The project begins with free weekly improvisational laboratories led by Tom Sepe, Samantha Beers, Tracy Vogel, and Olive Bieringa, laying the groundwork for ongoing outdoor performance events during residencies at CELL Space and 848 Community Space.