Interview Anna Freeman for Odyssey Works March 7th 2016 Odyssey Works: How did you come up with the concept of closer, and how did the idea develop from there? What are…
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Mary Amery March 9th, 2016 Source:The Big Idea Excerpt: It can be a penny arcade, a video arcade or a shopping arcade. It can be a series of arches –…
Reviewed by Anna Bate 10 Mar 2016 Source: Theatreview BodyCartography’s (NZ/USA) Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad share their project closer(solo) with the Wellington public, as a part of the waterfront’s temporary shipping…
Twin Cities dance scene stepped outside the usual stages in a superlative year. By Sheila Regan Source: Star Tribune December 20, 2015 excerpt: Fresh spaces: There was plenty of dance…
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Source: mnartists.org August 12, 2015 Susannah Schouweiler reports back from her discombobulating, one-on-one performance of “closer” by BodyCartography Project in Minneapolis’ City Hall. For the past couple of months, the…
September 11, 2015 Source: mnartists.org Emily Gastineau unpacks the ways BodyCartography Project is using real dance skills of sensing, paying attention, and examining perspective to redefine the textures and…
Author: Chris Martin Your neck begins to sweat; the muscles of your chest imperceptibly pull back; you brace yourself against a wall, arms folded. Public art promises embarrassment as it…
Source: Condo Magazine Founded in 1997 in San Francisco, the BodyCartography Project uses dance to explore embodiment and stimulate aliveness. From performances to installations, from films to curatorial projects Olive Bieringa and…
DANZ Magazine Reviewed by Sue Cheesman September 1, 2015 The first work Undertide choreographed by Olive Beiringa and Otto Ramstad (Body Cartography) is introspective. We as an audience are invited to contemplate…
Reviewed by Dr Linda Ashley, 7 Aug 2014 Theaterview.org Undertide, by NZ/USA Minnesota-based directors of the BodyCartography Project Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, is a sepia study of dynamic sustainment and…
Dominion Post Review by Ann Hunt Te Whaea Theatre, Wellington, until August 29 Touch Compass is a contemporary dance company comprised of disabled and non-disabled dancers and is based in…
PBS Newshour May 27, 2015 In Minneapolis, the Walker Art Center is offering art lovers a new thing to collect: intangible experience, direct from artist to consumer. Jeffrey Brown reports…
by Chris Hewitt Pioneer Press July 16 2015 A dance performance by Body Cartography Project can be intimate. Very intimate. “Closer,” the two-part piece Body Cartography is performing this summer,…
Ashley Duffalo mnartists.org December 10, 2014 an excerpt I had another one-on-one interaction on that same visit with dancer Dolo McComb, who is a collaborator with BodyCartography Project, a Minneapolis-based…
by John Townsend Lavender Magazine July 8 2015 You may have noticed that in recent years dance and theater have been presented in public locations other than traditional theater spaces….
by Euan Kerr Minnesota Public Radio August 13, 2015 Dancer Elayna Waxse performed as her audience, Anat Shinar, watched during a performance of “Closer” in Mill Ruins Park in Minneapolis….
Review: Observers and the observed get “closer” in a BodyCartography work that shines a light on intimacy and human interaction. by Sheila Regan Star Tribune August 14, 2015 There’s breaking…
Maxe Crandalla & Selby Wynn Schwartzb Columbia University b St. Mary’s College of California Published online: 28 Nov 2014 Routledge Informa Ltd Registered in England and Wales PERFORMANCE REVIEW Symptom,…
BodyCartography Project’s Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad interview master improviser, Lisa Nelson, who recently performed with Steve Paxton at the Walker Art Center. By Olive Bieringa for mn.artists.org November 24,…
Source: pica.org Author: Roz Crews Typically, my favorite parts of a dance performance are the costumes, the sleek bodies and the elegant presentation of precision. I appreciate the way the body…
Author Claire Crofts Source: pica.org Over the course of the TBA:14 festival, 400 people will have the opportunity to be one-on-one with the members of BodyCartography in the intimate performance…
Author: Rebecca Jacobson Source: Willamette Week Date: September 9, 2014 BodyCartography Project’s Super Nature At many shows, there’s a firm line between audience and performers. That’s not the case in…
Author: Bernadette Rae Source: New Zealand Herald 5:00 AM Friday Aug 8, 2014 The opening work in this most mesmerising of programmes begins with a filmed section projected on to a…
Source: Theaterreview.org.nz Author: Dr Linda Ashley Date: August 7, 2014 Undertide, by NZ/USA Minnesota-based directors of the BodyCartography Project Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, is a sepia study of dynamic sustainment and…
Source: mn.artists blog July 17, 2014 BodyCartography co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad speak with HIJACK collaborators Kristin Van Loon and Arwen Wilder about some of the many behind-the-scenes variables that go into…
Author: Karl Cronin Date: June 20, 2014 I sat in the audience. I didn’t know where to begin. He was stretching his arms up, and then gathering them in again. There…
Author: Julia MilsomSource: Theater ReviewDate: June 7 2014 Should dance be a consumer product spoon fed to us to brighten up our day like soft serve television? Or, can dance be something that…
Author: Val SmithSource: Theater ReviewDate: June 6 2014 At the opening of Footnote New Zealand Dance’s new season of original works by New Zealand choreographers at the Herald Theatre in Auckland, NOW 2014,…
Author: Sam TrubridgeSource: Theater ReviewDate: May 30 2014 The new Hannah Playhouse opened its doors last night for the first ever Footnote New Zealand Dance NOW season. While this mixed bill format has been…
We have launched a new conversation series for dance and performance makers who have been creating and performing for intimate audiences in public space. 
Body-Mind Centering classes online on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays with certified practitioners and teachers of Body-Mind Centering Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. 
Otto will offer an online Material for the Spine class as a 4 part series May 19, 21, 26, 28. He will teach 2 classes a day to reach you all in different time zones. 
We are very excited to announce the first Body-Mind Centering®