Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering® immersion

🌟 Join us for a transformative Two-Day Immersion in Contact Improvisation & Body-Mind Centering® with Olive Bieringa! Through embodied exploration, we will discover effortless, intentional, and vibrant partnering.

🤸 Contact Improvisation serves as our playground, a dance form grounded in the physical laws of motion: mass, gravity, momentum, and inertia. On the other hand, Body-Mind Centering® offers a pathway for embodied research, merging movement, perception, and consciousness. Together, we'll cultivate sensory awareness, enhance partnering skills, and refine our improvisational expression.

Day One: Inner Architectures

🔍 We’ll awaken anatomical and physiological precision, focusing on our structural support of skeleton and fascia while diving into the dimensionality of our organs. Through guided movement, touch, and awareness, we’ll identify and integrate our body’s tissues, exploring the unique movement qualities they present.

Day Two: Sensory Beings

👁️ Our senses evolve through stimulation and experience. We’ll explore how senses of touch and movement are distributed throughout our body and how vision, hearing, taste, and smell are centered in our head. Understanding how we perceive our internal and external environments helps us learn how to filter, modify, and fully embrace new choices.

✨ About Olive Bieringa: Olive is a seasoned artist and movement therapist, blending social practice with pedagogy. She holds certifications in movement therapy, infant developmental movement, and is a Body-Mind Centering® Teacher. Olive's rich educational background includes a BA in Dance from the Netherlands and an MFA from Long Island University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at the Theatre Academy, Uniarts Arts, Helsinki and has been instrumental in founding BodyCartography in 1997 with Otto Ramstad.

📅 Schedule:

• Saturday: 10:00 – 17:00
• Sunday: 10:00 – 17:00
  📍 Venue: Praxis Oslo
  🚀 Limited spots: Only 16 available, so make sure to book early!

🔗 For more information, visit BodyCartography.
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