An artist talk and workshop with OLIVE BIERINGA & OTTO RAMSTAD 11 March 2019, 10:00am, Oslo Listen to the talk here: https://www.uks.no/archive/htp-7-olive-bieringa-otto-ramstad/ Considering collegial exchange, informal peer-to-peer/practice-to-practice learning, and attempts…
This publication of 30 experimental dance artists was launched alongside the performances, workshops and discussions that formulated Experimental Dance Week 2018, curated and produced by Alexa Wilson at Auckland Old…
action movie is a one-on –one performance that shows the body at once as tool and a vessel that makes present the feeling and corporeal understandng of how space can…
action movie found one dance and one spectator exploring the museum together. The dancer controlled the action, framing the experience for the viewer who, eyes closed, was led by the…
Collaboration is an act that requires an intentional willingness towards play and trust. BodyCartography Project’s Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have organized performances that breach the boundaries we create with…
Dance is an affective immigrant into the art museum. Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad’s collaborative dance company, BodyCartography Project, just completed a five week residency at the Weisman Art Museum,…
Weisman Art Museum website August 1, 2018 INTRODUCTION BodyCartography Project (BCP), a Minneapolis-based dance collective of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, celebrate their twentieth anniversary with a tour that concludes…
James Fleming Open Space March 30, 2018 Editors’ Note: We asked the writer and curator James Fleming to attend each of the live moments in the Limited Edition program and create short,…
Author: Hope Mohr Source: Open Space 1. action movie Before we began, I told Justin that I was writing about the work. Could I carry my notebook? He didn’t like the…
One of New Zealand’s most experimental dance companies, BodyCartography Project, is marking its 20th year with four ambitious works, one of them 13 hours long. The dancers are making history…
Source: Broadwayworld.com Author: Hannah Landsberger Sep. 19, 2017 excerpt closer(group), a production by the visiting BodyCartography Project, opened Dance Place’s 2017/2018 season on Saturday night. This bold, interactive performance made…
Auckland, April 2017 DANZ magazine By embodying the process of embryological development, we discover the primal roots of our structure, perception, the ability to respond and to be present” EMBRYOLOGICAL…
A review of our workshop showing and Otto’s solo Lineage in Norwegian. Read it here.
Author: Amelia Charter December 2016 1 The theatre and performance is in service to the audiences The performance is an offering, a gift As a performer, you bring…
Edited by Victoria Hunter Routledge 2015 More here
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…
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…
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…
Minnesota-based choreographer Olive Bieringa was back in New Zealand recently to work with Footnote Dance on their ‘Now’ series. She tells Eva Radich about her approach. Click to listen.
Author: Douglas Wolk Source: Wired.com Date: 09.13.13 ST. PAUL – The first sign of unusual life at tonight’s Station to Station show was parked outside Union Depot: Kate Casanova’s “Vivarium…
Contact Quarterly Summer/Fall 2000 Download the article
We have launched a new conversation series for dance and performance makers who have been creating and performing for intimate audiences in public space. Check out the documentation from our first conversations and stay tuned for more.
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. Read more.
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. Register now.
We are very excited to announce the first Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator program in Australia has begun. Our third module (yes our fingers are crossed) will unfold in September 2020. You can learn more about the program here.
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