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with Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad and Gry Kipperberg

PRAXIS Oslo in Hausmania, 34 Hausmans gate
Entrance through then back gate behind Vega Scene
Pre-registration and commitment for the whole series is encouraged to build our collective learning power.
6 class series 1000 kr. Drop in 200 kr

Utilizing movement, touch, voice and mind we will explore our nervous system and deepen our understandng of how how it supports different ways of being, moving, perceiving, breathing, behaving expressing and thinking.

Experience first occurs on the cellular level. Our nervous system is the recording system of our body. It records our experiences and organizes them into patterns. It can then recall the experience and modify it by integrating it with patterns of other systems and previous experiences. Our nervous system is the last to know, but, once knowing, it becomes a major control center of psychophysical processes. It can initiate the learning of new experience through creativity and play. Our nervous system underlies alertness, thought, and precision of coordination and establishes the perceptual base from which we view and interact with our internal and external worlds.

This class series is for movers, dancers, performers, yoga practitioners, bodyworkers, occupational and physical therapists, somatic psychotherapists, infant/child educators, and those from other body-mind disciplines interested in cellular consciousness, movement, and mindfulness. No prior experience with Body-Mind Centering® is necessary.

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