At Dance Place on Saturday, May 16 at 8pm and Sunday, May 17 at 7pm, BodyCarography Project provokes empathetic reactions with their visceral dance theater. Full of artifice and animal appetites, Super Nature engages the wild, the domestic and the civilized aspects of human nature to create a radical ecological melodrama. Artistic Directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad are joined by Bessie award winning composer Zeena Parkins and visual artist Emmett Ramstad. The performance cast includes local DC dancers.
About BodyCartography Project
The mission of BodyCartography Project is to investigate embodiment and empathy and to provoke aliveness as part of our everyday experience. They create dance for performance, film and installation in urban, domestic, wild and social landscapes. Their work is rooted in contemporary dance, somatic technique, education, socially-engaged practice and public art. They are deeply invested in the power of live performance to facilitate a re-enchantment of embodiment, relationship and presence.
About Olive Bieringa
Olive Bieringa grew up in New Zealand, studied with first and second generation Judson Church choreographers at the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and moved to the USA in 1996. She completed her MFA in Performance and New Media from Long Island University in 2011. She has collaborated with numerous artists and appeared in the work of choreographers Deborah Hay, Yoshiko Chuma, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Jennifer Monson, Eva Karczag and Stephanie Skura. She founded the BodyCartography Project in 1998. Olive teaches internationally in university contexts, and public contexts such as Impulstanz, Vienna, Movement Research, NYC, TanzLaboratorium, Kiev and dance companies, such as Lyon Opera Ballet, Footnote Dance and Touch Compass, New Zealand, Axis Dance Company, California and Young Dance, Minneapolis.
About Otto Ramstad
Otto Ramstad has an insatiable interest in the process of creating kinesthetic visual images with movement. He has been investigating improvisational movement formally since the age of six starting with master dance teacher and Body-Mind Centering® (BMC) practitioner Suzanne River and since via skateboarding and snowboarding, Capoiera Angola, Butoh, Tai Chi, contact improvisation and Tuning Scores. He is a certified teacher of BMC and holds a BA in Dance, Improvisation and the Moving Image. He has been featured in the work of D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Morgan Thorson, Sara Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Lisa Schmitt and Kitt Johnson from Denmark. Ramstad has performed solo works in Denmark, Finland, England, New Zealand, Italy, NYC and around the USA. His current solo Hello Nervous System was seen in Fresh Tracks at DTW, NYC, The Ritz Theater, Minneapolis and PanCreas Festival in Denmark.
WHAT: BodyCartography Project
WHEN: Saturday, May 16 at 8pm and Sunday, May 17 at 7pm
WHERE: Dance Place, 3225 8th Street NE, Washington, DC 20017; two blocks from Redline Brookland/CUA Metro station; free and convenient parking
TICKETS: $30 Admission At the Door; $25 Admission (Advance Sales only)*; $20 Dance Place Members, Seniors (55+), Artists (Advance Sales only)*; $15 College Students and Children (17 & under)
*Advance Sales end 4 hours prior to performance start time.
To purchase tickets, visit danceplace.org or call 202.269.1600
