Workshops

June 22 18-20.00 Dansverkstæðið Hjarðarhagi 47 Reykjavik In this workshop we will focus on how our cellular structures and vitality support our whole body awareness, and physical capacity for dancing together. Body-Mind Centering® (BMC®) as an approach to movement exploration and embodiment founded by Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. It is based on experiential learning and uses movement, touch, and voice to explore anatomy, kinesiology, physiology, embryology, and developmental movement. Olive Bieringa is a dance, performance and visual artist working at the intersection of social and creative practice, pedagogy, and healing. She is a teacher, and practitioner of Body-Mind Centering and a…

July 6-10 10-17:00 every day Østmarka, Oslo SOLD OUT Email everybody@bodycartography.org to get on the waiting list This workshop is an opportunity to center yourself and reawaken your innate capacity for connection with what is going on inside and around you.  Together we will practice breathing, moving, sensing, perceiving, digesting, dying, and decomposing to help us perceive more of our living and the whole scale of the sensitivities and intelligences within us, the human and non-human, the transforming spaces, the before and after. Together, we will deepen our skills to listen, improvise, play, experiment,  grieve, dwell in the unknown, and…

ImPulsTanz – Vienna International Dance Festival This year, curators Deirdre Morris, Sylvia Scheidl, and pavleheidler, engage with embodied practitioners working across genres to explore themes commonly associated with the notion of the interstitial. The interest in the elusive, the tensegral, the emergent, and the relational arises spontaneously (some would say: organically) as we work towards the final instalment in a four-year-long arch dedicated to exploring a range of socio-political, professional, artistic, and therapeutic aspects of touch at the intersection of art, academia, and activism. The LACE Symposium is a practice-based symposium. At LACE Symposium we don’t simply invite artists researchers…

A Two-Day immersion in Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering® Through embodied exploration we will discover partnering that is effortless, intentional, and alive. Contact Improvisation will be our playground, a dance form rooted in physical laws of motion; mass, gravity, momentum, inertia. Body-Mind Centering® will offer an approach for embodied research where movement, perception, and consciousness meet. Together we will develop our sensory awareness, partnering skills, and improvisational expression. Day One: Inner Architectures We will begin by awakening anatomical and physiological precision, embodying our structural support of skeleton and fascia, and dropping into the dimensionality and metabolic power of our organs.…

The second round of the Somatic Movement Educator program began in February 2025. Courses can be taken individually for personal & professional development, or as part of the full 500+ hours Body-Mind Centering® Somatic Movement Educator certification. The four starred courses below are also part of the Infant Developmental Movement Educator (IDME) Program which will take place in 2028-2029. Module 3: Fluid System 10-16 February 2026 (6 days, day off 13/2) Nervous System 19-26 February 2026 (7 days, day off 23/2) Module 4: Ligamentous and Fascial System 4-11 September 2026 (7 days, day off 8/9) Endocrine System 14-18 September 2026 (5…