Calling all dancer folks,

Please forward to anyone you think maybe interested.

Seeking: The BodyCartography Project is looking for up to 5 dancers for a new project co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center, premiering spring 2012. We are looking for highly integrated super physical movers with the ability to go underneath known styles of dance to explore their animal body. A love for performing and experience required. Rehearsals will take place between Minneapolis and Europe beginning September 2011.

About the piece: The context of Nature (working title) is a group, a social choreography. By investigating how social structures operate we want to reveal, morph or amplify the behavioral and the reflexive actions between the performers and in the empathetic space between performers and audience. The work will investigate the space between the social body and the animal body and the microscopic unspoken dance of inner/outer attention. With this framework we will simultaneously ask questions about individuals and social groups and to unpack issues of nature, nurture, social and culture in "objective" and "subjective" ways.

About us: Since 1998 the BodyCartography Project’s co-directors Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have created numerous dance, film and installation works. Their work extends from intimate solos for the street or stage, to large community dance works in train stations, dance films in national parks, to highly complex works for site or stage amidst installations, video and sound. Their work has been produced across the USA, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America. Recent highlights include a commission for the Lyon Opera Ballet and the premiere of their work Symptom with visual artist Emmett Ramstad at COIL Festival, Performance Space 122, NYC and Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis and 1/2 Life with a physicist, composer Zeena Parkins and visual artist Emmett Ramstad at Performance Space 122, NYC, the Southern Theater and Art of This Gallery in Minneapolis. Their upcoming performance work Nature will be co-commissioned by the Walker Art Center in 2011-2012. They are featured artists in the first book about site dance in the USA published by University of Florida Press titled Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Spaces and are 2010 McKnight Fellows.


When: The audition is at PS 122 Jan 6th from 12-4pm in 45 min blocks, with call back Jan 9th, time TBA. Please come warmed up and ready to move.

If interested please send a short CV to otto@bodycartography.org and give us your preferred time on the hour.

Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Otto Ramstad + Olive Bieringa
The BodyCartography Project
http://www.bodycartography.org