Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have been collaborating as BodyCartography Project since 1998.

We engage with the vital materiality of our bodies and minds to create live performance that facilitates a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship, and presence. Our research questions how tools from dance, choreography and somatics can support our collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis.

In 2020-2022 we have been artists in residence at the Norsk Teknisk Museum in Oslo with “a collection of fluid spaces”  and in 2022 at SITE in Sweden with “Resisting Extinction”. Coinciding with our twenty year anniversary in 2018 our work Follow was acquired by Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand , the first intangible dance acquisition for their permanent collection. felt roomLineage and action movie were presented at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Over the past twenty five years BodyCartography’s offerings have functioned to deepen the conversation in dance and somatic practice, to give value to other ways of experiencing and making dance. Together through workshops, choreographies and performances we have been invested in cultivating an inner life for performers, makers and audiences.

Movement research, somatic and improvisational practice inform the ground of our dance-making and teaching practice. Somatic practice, specifically Body-Mind Centering®, is an integrated and embodied approach to movement, the body and consciousness. We are certified teachers of Body-Mind Centering® working internationally.

Our work is featured in many publications including the first two books about site dance internationally: Site Dance, the Lure of Alternative Spaces and Moving Sites: Investigating Site-Specific Dance Performance published by Routledge.

Our work has been commissioned, presented and supported by SITE, Sweden, Norsk Teknisk Museum, DansiT, Trondheim, Oslo International Teater Festival, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis International Film Festival, Minnesota Public Television, Minneapolis; American Realness, Dance Theater Workshop, Movement Research, Dance on Camera Festival, NYC; TBA/Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts; Anti-Festival, Finland; Stromereien Festival, Zurich; Lyon Opera Ballet, Lyon; South East Dance, Cheshire Dance, UK; NZ International Film Festival, New Zealand; Cinedans, Amsterdam; Polish Public Television, Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography, Tallahassee; Headlands Center for the Arts, Marin; K3, Hamburg; Les Subsistances, Lyon; amongst others.