author: Claudia La Rocco
date: 12/31/07
source: New York Times
This article discusses DTW’s Fresh Tracks performance series and features Otto Ramstad discussing is participation in Fresh Tracks in January 2008. For full article click on the New York Times link above.
author: Justin Jones
date: 10/08/07
source: Movement Research
Justin Jones recently interviewed Olive and Otto about their new show Holiday House. You can listen to a longer version at the above link for Critical Correspondence.
author: Lightsey Darst
date: 09/19/07
source: mspmag.com
There’s a lot to be said about BodyCartography’s remount of its 2006 Momentum show, this time staged in the holiday house itself—the duo’s own south Minneapolis home.
author: Sue Cheesman
date: 07/01/07
source: DANZ QUARTERLY
Olive Bieringa, a first generation New Zealander, and Otto Ramstad, a third generation American, travel the globe by desire and necessity in order to connect with land, family, explore new cultural contexts and sustain their work practices in dance.
author: Lightsey Darst
date: 02/03/07
source: www.mnartists.org
Lightsey Darst previews the great dance film event that’s happening at Rogue Buddha Gallery in Northeast Minneapolis: Kinesthetic Kino will screen a number of films starting at 7 pm on
Friday, February 16. Go see! You’ll see.
author: Jeffrey Kalstrom
date: 08/12/06
source: mnartists.org
Body Cartography (the partnership of Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstead) uses a dance discipline that attempts to integrate contact improvisation with mind-body mediation techniques.
author: Mandy Morrison
date: 05/01/06
source: New York Arts Magazine
Mandy Morrison: What influenced your decision to create (performative) work that would interact in a public sphere?
author: Alys Longley
date: 05/01/06
source: Proximity
Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad’s BodyCartography Project has played an important role in the New Zealand improvisation community, through their regular visits here for the development of award winning site specific performances for the Wellington Fringe Festival,
The senses develop in sequence: kinesthetic, touch, smell and taste, and then vision. When our vision is developing we associate it with all the other sensations that we have that have more fully developed.
author: Olive Bieringa with Otto Ramstaddate: June 2004source: Contact Quarterly This article was published in Contact Quarterly in 2004, Vol 29, Number 2 and appears on behalf of CQ I…
date: 03/18/03
source: Evening Post
It was an afternoon of glitz and glamour for Wellington theatre as the Fringe New Zealand Stellar Awards were handed out last Sunday. Big Congratulations!!! to the BodyCartography Project who were the overall winners at Fringe 2003 with their dance and music ensemble, LAGOON.
author: Jenny Stevenson
date: 03/10/03
source: The Domion Post
A huge crowd packed into the Frank Kitts Lagoon surrounds on a perfect Saturday night to view what has become for many the definitive Fringe event- the annual charting of a public place by the BodyCartography Project.
author: Sherri Cruz
date: 11/29/02
source: Star Tribune
Today, one of the busiest shopping days of the year, several people plan to go to Nicollet Mall and gleefully dance down store aisles with shopping carts. But their carts will be empty. Gasp!
author: Jenny Stevenson
date: 03/05/01
source: Dominion Newspaper
Olive Bieringa and her BodyCartography Project have returned for two performances only in Wellington, with their unique performance idiom – the charting of public spaces through dance.
author: Jenny Stevenson, New Zealand
date: 04/10/98
source: unpublished
During the 1998 International Festival Of the Arts, Olive Bieringa and her collective of dancers, staged a month long performance project, The BodyCartography Project as one of the headline acts of the Fringe Festival.
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 Ramstad will present “A study in anarchy. A study in gravity” as part of INTERIOR TECHNIQUES STUDIES. SEMINAR ABOUT STEVE PAXTON from April 24, 2020 to April 25, 2020 in Bilbao. Read more
We are very excited to announce the first Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator program in Australia has begun. Our second module will unfold with the Organ System and Basic Neurocellular Patterns February 14-March 2, 2020 with teachers Amy Mathews, Mary-Lou Seereiter and Olive Bieringa. You can learn more about the program here.
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