stromereien 09 - Artists
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BodyCartography Project (Minneapolis/USA): GO
In “GO”, the audience are encouraged to explore their interactions with the outside world. They are divided into groups and taken on a surprising, unusual journey through the surrounding area.
GO is an investigation into the ongoing journey between our inner and outer landscapes and the ecological entwinement of self, other, and environment. The work is an investigation of physical freedom and kinesthetic empathy with the urban environment and its inhabitants.
Concept, Direction: Olive Bieringa
Performance: Olive Bieringa, Otto Ramstad, Kristin Van Loon
Kristin Van Loon is a dance artist based in Minneapolis, USA. Formative are a decade of compeditive figure skating and an education in Geology. Since 1993, she has choreographed in collaboration with Arwen Wilder as HIJACK. Van Loon also teaches Contact Improvisation, is Artistic Director of the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater, and a founder of the Minneapolis Tuning Club, fART fEST video nights, and SFP&FOSFP.
Otto Ramstad has an insatiable interest in the process of creating kinaesthetic visual images with movement. He is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering® and holds a BA in Dance, Improvisation, and the Moving Image. He has been featured in the work of D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Lisa Schmitt, Jennifer Monson, Scott Wells, and Kitt Johnson from Denmark. Ramstad has performed solo works in Denmark, Finland, England, New Zealand, Italy, NYC and around the USA. He was an Archibald Bush Fellowship Artist 2006-2008, and a Rolex Protegé Nominee in 2008.
Olive Bieringa’s current interest includes the interplay between embodiment and ecosystems. She is a certified Body-Mind Centering® practitioner and a curator of the Kinesthetic Kino Dance Cinema and SEEDS Festival, which takes place at Earthdance in Massachussets. She teaches at Impulstanz, Vienna as well as many other festivals and schools internationally.
BodyCartography Project (Olive Bieringa und Otto Ramstad)
Since 1998 the project has been creating dance and video work which investigate the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic and social landscapes. Their work has been presented to critical acclaim in Minneapolis, San Francisco, NYC, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. In 2010 they will develop a new work for the Lyon Opera Ballet.
Supported by the Embassy of the United States, Bern.
Performance Walk B - Sun 2nd und Mon 3rd August, 20.00