Contact Quarterly features a new interview with Otto Ramstad in Vol. 44 no. 1 Winter/Spring 2019. Commonalities & Distinctions Body-Mind Centering® & Contact Improvisation, an interview with Otto Ramstad by Grégory Chevalier. Buy…
Contact Quarterly features an article about Olive Bieringa’s recent works felt room and action movie in Vol. 44 no. 1 Winter/Spring 2019 titled Under Seeing: An Approach to Feeling and Sensing Performance by…
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,…
JULY 17, 2018 Weisman Art Museum website Boris Oicherman REFLECTIONS ON THE PERFORMANCE FELT ROOM BY BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT The performance space is a stage-less, featureless, roomy white cube with only the functional…
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…
Sheila Regan Star Tribune JULY 13, 2018 BodyCartography Project launched its monthlong residency at the Weisman Art Museum on Wednesday with a performance installation called “Felt Room,” a sensory experience…
BodyCartography Project’s closer Michael J. Kramer Theatre Magazine June 2018 If I hold you any closer, I’ll be in back of you. — Groucho Marx I. “Can I Dance…
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…
Source: Te Papa website Date: March 14, 2018 Olive Bieringa from BodyCartography Project talks about her new Toi Art commission, Follow, with Te Papa’s Sarah Farrar, Senior Art Curator, and…
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…
Author: Judith Howard Source: Culturebot On October 21, 2016, I attended action movie by Olive Bieringa in the Vital Matters Dance Festival, held at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis, MN. This four-day festival was important…
A review of our workshop showing and Otto’s solo Lineage in Norwegian. Read it here.
25.10.2016 Venke Marie Sortland Scenekunst Praxisfestivalen 2016, ”Into the body into the wild” inviterte i begynnelsen av august – som en måte å pangoppstarte kroppen på – til tre ulike…
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…
Author: Matt de la Peña Source: Chicago Reader Date: November 3, 2016 Developed by the Minneapolis-based creative duo of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, closer is like nothing so much…
Author: Sheila Regan Source: Star Tribune Date: September 30, 2016 After a successful Kickstarter campaign raising more than $15,000, the new Vital Matters contemporary dance and performance festival is a…
Author: Camille LeFevre Source: City Pages Date: October, 2016 Minneapolis’ experimental dance scene explodes this weekend with four days of workshops, artist talks, and performances celebrating the myriad ways in…
Sheila Regan August 14, 2015 Star Tribune Review: Observers and the observed get “closer” in a BodyCartography work that shines a light on intimacy and human interaction. There’s breaking the…
Annabel Wilson Source: ON Cool Hunting Aotearoa Summer 2016 Along the waterfront, the annual Performance Arcade was well worth a look-see as a microcosm of creativity emerged from a series of shipping…
March 6, 2016 by Nick Duval-Smith Source: Nick’s blog It’s tricky, with arts festivals. The acts you heard of are mostly pretty expensive (and for good reason -they’ve come from…
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…
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 –…
Learn about our residency at the Norsk Teknisk Museum and our current project we are develioping for the new medical galleries for April 2021. Read more.
TanzFabrik offers an online workshop and research opportunity with Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad.
We are looking for dancers who are interested in a process which will begin as a workshop and will evolve into a series of site based investigations. We will research how embodied embryological knowledge can grow a dance that transforms the way we, performers and audience alike, experience our own bodies/selves/environment. Interested individual participants or pods please apply by 8th of January. The spaces are limited to 25. Read more.
closer lays bare the power of physicality and presence through a series of one-on-one performances, for one dancer and one audience, in public space. Together we play with how the meeting between performer and audience generates the possibility for something new. The work will be mounted with performers Josie Archer, Kosta Bogoievski and Footnote for the tenth anniversary of the Performance Arcade.
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