Events

Tuesdays 18.00-20.00
5 week series January 14 – February 11, 2025
with Certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioners Otto Ramstad, Gry Kipperberg and Olive Bieringa

“Our organs are vital and alive. They provide us with our sense of self, full-bodiedness, and organic authenticity. Organs are the contents within the skeletal-flesh container and carry on the functions of our internal survival — breathing, nourishment and elimination. Organs are the primary habitats or natural environments of our emotions, aspirations, and the memories of our inner reactions to our personal and social histories. They support our postural tone and our feelings, and give volume to our movement.” Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, founder of Body-Mind Centering®

In this course we will explore:

• Initiating breath, voice, movement and touch from the organs.
• Techniques to facilitate access to and balance in the organs.

Somatic practice is an integrated and embodied approach to movement and consciousness which can be practiced by anybody irregardless of age, ability, disability, or gender. Together we will create a generative place for touch, movement exploration, evolution and dancing.

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad collaborate as the BodyCartography Project making performances, films, installations, festivals and workshops internationally. As certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® and movement therapists they run the Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Education certification in Melbourne at Somatic Education Australia. They teach internationally for Carte Blanche, Bergen, New Zealand School of Dance,  Dansehallerne, The Danish National School of Performing Arts, Copenhagen, Cullberg Ballet, Stockholm, TanzFabrik, Berlin, Tanzquartier, Vienna, Uniarts, Stockholm, Norwegian Theater Academy, Fredrikstad, Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Praxis, Oslo, Impulstanz, Vienna, Movement Research, NYC, Independent Dance, London, Contradanse, Brussels amongst others.

Gry Kipperberg is a dance artist based in Oslo. She studied at Khio and Merce Cunningham Studio in New York and has worked with several companies, choreographers, and other dancers since 1990. In 1999 she established the company Wee together with Francesco Scavetta, with whom she has worked and toured extensively internationally. Throughout her career Gry has studied and practiced various somatic practices and was certified as a BMC Practitioner in 2022. As a dancer she has received several grants, was awarded the Rolf Gamlengprisen in 2012 and is employed by Skuespiller-og Danseralliansen since December 2012.

Pre-registration and commitment for the whole series is encouraged to build our collective learning power.

Body-Mind Centering® is a registered service mark of Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen.