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 –…
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…
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…
Immediate, personal, physical – this immersive movement tour will transform the way you experience art. Next dates October 20, 27 and November 3, 2018. Learn more and book now
Upcoming weekly BMC class in Oslo, and workshops in Tuscania, Copenhagen, Oslo, London, Berlin and more. Read more.
Praxis Conversations is s new intimate conversation series facilitated by Olive Bieringa and presented with a new topic every eight weeks in Oslo. Learn more.
BodyCartography Project celebrated its twentieth anniversary with a tour that included the National Museum of New Zealand, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and concluded at the Weisman Art Museum in the summer of 2018 with works felt room, Lineage, action movie, The Place of Space and a BodyCartography archive installation.
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