Author: Nichole Jankowski Source: V Magazine Date: October 2013 There is no journey that grips the imagination of the American people more profoundly that the trip from east to west….
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Author: Sheila Regan, Behind the Story Source: TC Daily Planet Date: June 23, 2013 After Outlet, I headed over to the I-94 underpass near the Basilica to see BodyCartography Project,…
Author: Michael J. Kramer Source: CULTURE ROVER: PROMISCUOUS CULTURAL CRITICISM Date: October 2013 “And all I gotta do is act naturally.” — written by Johnny Russell and Voni Morrison, sung…
Author: Camille Le Fevre Source: MNartists.blog Laurie Van Wieren has done something wonderful and original with her newest curatorial project, Monday Live Arts: She’s made the making of performance fun, enlightening,…
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…
Author: Sheila Regan Source: City Pages Date: August 21, 2013 The Soap Factory has a history of including dance and performance art as part of its programming. There’s the WorkHorse…
Author: Lightsey Darst Source: MNartists.org Date: July 1, 2013 The template – beautiful people, beautifully filmed with a sketch of a story or character – is identical. In feature films,…
Author: Michele Steinwald Source: walkerart.org Date: June 10, 2013 When I asked a room filled with my peers to imagine an ideal future for presenting contemporary dance performances, they agreed…
Source: City Pages This year we celebrate the choreographic duo of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, who together lead the BodyCartography Project. Their latest endeavor, Super Nature, which premiered at the…
Source: mnartists.org
Author: Lightsey Darst
Date: February 7, 2013
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But a contrast might illuminate something. The other piece on Outlet’s double bill was a solo in which BodyCartography’s Otto Ramstad gave the audience not so much something to see as something to witness—a transformation, an embodiment, that we take in with our whole social and physical being.
Source: Cupertino Inn NEWSLETTER
February 15th, 2013
The Real Thing
The benefit of writing a blog is that I can that I can write about things that are happening right now. The downside, of course, to writing a blog for a hotel, and so knowing that of the very few people who will read this, an even smaller number will actually be in town, is that telling you about things that are happening right now might only be frustrating for everyone.
Source: Bachtrack Author: Ivan Talijancic Date: January 23rd, 2013 I promise I am not late – the house lights are up and the performance has not formally begun. And yet, the…
Source: CulturebotAuthor: Jeremy M. BarkerJanuary 8, 2013 “We had another show we did in New York at the COIL Festival in 2009, called Holiday House,” Otto Ramstad, half of the core…
Twin Cities dance troupe explores human behavior and the psyche in a bold, smart world premiere.
Author: Caroline Palmer
Source: Star Tribune
Date: October 26, 2012
You might worry about a show that first requires you to avoid running over a performer darting about the cavernous Walker Art Center parking ramp. It’s like he broke loose from his pack. But that’s the sort of unexpected wildness that defines “Super Nature,” a sneaky-smart world premiere conceived and directed by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad of Minneapolis-based BodyCartography Project, with music by Zeena Parkins.
Author: Jessica Fiala Source:blogs.walkerart.org Date: October 29, 2012 A SpeakEasy is an informal audience discussion facilitated by a Walker tour guide and a local performer or choreographer. Today’s edition highlights themes…
Source: the Green Room blog, Walker Arts Center
Author: Pemelope Freeh
Date: October 26th, 2012
To spark discussion, the Walker invites local artists and critics to write overnight reviews of ourperformances. The ongoing Re:View series shares a diverse array of independent voices andopinions; it doesn’t reflect the views or opinions of the Walker or its curators. Today, PenelopeFreeh shares her perspective on Thursday night’s performance of Super Nature by theBodyCartography Project with Zeena Parkins.
Source: The Green Room, Walker Art Center blog Author: Michele Steinwald Cutting-edge dance artists “tend to explore anything that transports them closer to the inside, closer to an understanding of…
Source: City Pages
Author: Sheila Regan
Date: October 23, 2012
Last spring, BodyCartography Project set up an unusual installation at the Walker Art Center. Participants signed up for individual oneonone sessions with BC dancers in small, empty gallery rooms surrounded by curtains. What happened during those time slots varied wildly depending on the interactions between the audience member and the dancer. The installation was part of an investigation of empathy that feeds into this weekend’s performance of “Super Nature.”
BodyCartography, with a premiere at the Walker this weekend, boldly explores both inner and outer landscapes. Article by: Kristin Tillotson Source: Star Tribune Even while recoiling in distaste, professional dancers exude grace….
source: mnartists.org
authour: Lightsey Darst
date: June 7th 2012
Lightsey Darst describes the experience of engaging BodyCartography Project’s recent installation/work-in-progress at the Walker – “Super Nature” – which explores the nuance of interpersonal relation, attempting to “choreograph empathy.”
author: Tony Wagner
source: MN Daily
date: June 2 2012
When I talked to Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad about their performance installation at the Walker Art Center, they told me the basics but kept the details a secret. The duo that makes up the BodyCartography project would only divulge that the installation was an experiment for their upcoming “Super Nature” show, and that the performance would involve a ten-minute, one-on-one interaction between a performer and an audience member in an empty gallery.
Source: MN Daily
Author: Tony Wagner
Date: May 30, 2012
The BodyCartography project wants to experiment on you at the Walker this weekend.
Source: City Pages
Author: Sheila Regan
Date: February 23, 2011
Science meets art on Thursday for a unique installation at the Bell Museum led by choreographer Olive Bieringa ofBodyCartography Project. Part of an artist-in-residence program at the museum, Bieringa has spent the last month talking to scientists and developing an installation called Proximity that explores social boundaries, personal space, and animal behavior.
Source: MPR
February 23, 2011
Author Euan Kerr
Olive Bieringa doesn’t pull her punches when it comes to the local audience. “People in Minnesota are nice, but I think there is a little anxiety about proximity and intimacy,” she says. Bieringa, (shown here in a previous work) is co-director of the Body Cartography Project will be looking to pokeat some of those anxieties with an evening called “Proximity” at the Bell Museum at the U of M’s Minneapolis campus tomorrow night. It’s the latest Bell Museum Social, which presents an artist in residence in the context ofthe Bell’s natural history displays.
Author: Sheila Regan Source: SouthWest Minneapolis Patch Date: January 3rd, 2011 We look back at some great theater and dance shows that happened this year… Symptom Another presentation of Intermedia…
BY SHEILA REGAN, TC DAILY PLANET
November 13, 2010
Symptom confused me. I loved it, but it confused me. And then when I went home and read the program, and then read the other program, I was confused even more (yes, there are two programs).
Source: Star Tribune Author: Caroline Palmer Date: November 12, 2010 Twins never fail to stir curiosity. Who was born first? Do they share a secret language? Do they have a…
Source: Critical CorresponenceInterview date: October 30, 2010 Laurie Van Wieren: Let’s talk about the piece you just did in France,Mammal. How did that project become what it was? Otto Ramstad: I…
Source: Quodlibetica 10 – Cartographies Author: Lightsey Darst Date: 10.1.10 Poet and dance reviewer Lightsey Darst writes about BodyCartography in Quodlibetica. “Let’s look at a dance. Let’s look at you…
Open rehearsal, Dansens Dager, Scenehuset, Oslo, April 26th. We propose to build a dance installation titled the museum of fluid spaces; a radical embryology laboratory. Using touch and movement as a doorway into our embryological history we will create a series of unfolding dances. 
Upcoming workshops in Oslo, Brussels, Lisbon, International Contact Festival Freiburg, Germany and weekly Body-Mind Centering class in Oslo. 
Steve Paxton developed “Material for the Spine” in 1986 as an exploration of the movement possibilities within the muscles surrounding the spine, as well as the connections between the head, pelvis, and vertebrae. This solo practice is supported by specific exercises, body puzzles and ideokinetic imagery. 
We are very excited to announce the first Body-Mind Centering®