Workshops

Tuesdays 18.00-20.00 5 week series January 14 – February 11, 2025 with Certified Body-Mind Centering® Practitioners Otto Ramstad, Gry Kipperberg and Olive Bieringa “Our organs are vital and alive. They provide us with our sense of self, full-bodiedness, and organic authenticity. Organs are the contents within the skeletal-flesh container and carry on the functions of our internal survival — breathing, nourishment and elimination. Organs are the primary habitats or natural environments of our emotions, aspirations, and the memories of our inner reactions to our personal and social histories. They support our postural tone and our feelings, and give volume to…

Ecosomatic Practices for living and dying with a damaged earth with Olive Bieringa 9.30-11.30 EST/ 15.30-17.30 CET Fee: 100-200 Euros sliding scale To register please email everybody@bodycartography.org Olive Bieringa will offer an online workshop series for returning students who have engaged with BodyCartography’s prior ecosomatic offerings. Participants are invited to practice out on the land or in their homes or studios. In this series we will engage with practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth. Together we will practice living, breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of the…

Movement Research presents Material for the Spine with Otto Ramstad Mon-Fri, Jan 20 – 24, 2025 | 11:30AM-1:30PM EST/ 17.30-19.30 CET “With Material For the Spine, I was interested in alloying a technical approach to improvisational results. It is a system for exploring the interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring the light of consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations to the mind for consideration.” – Steve Paxton Material For the Spine concentrates accumulated knowledges from Paxton’s study of walking, Contact Improvisation and…

Material For the Spine concentrates accumulated knowledges from Paxton’s study of walking, Contact Improvisation and Aikido practice to explore the movement possibilities in the spine and the connections between the head, pelvis, and vertebrae. “With Material For the Spine, I was interested in alloying a technical approach to improvisational results. It is a system for exploring the interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring the light of consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations to the mind for consideration.” Steve Paxton Note: the class series…

a 2-day workshop with Olive Bieringa February 1 +2 10:00-16:00 at Dancehouse Lefkosia, Cyprus Ecosomatics is a dynamic approach to living and learning which engages us in embodied practices to bring us into deeper relations with the world in which we live. We will work with tools from somatics, dance and improvisation. In this workshop we will engage with practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth. Together we will practice living, breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences with…