ON BODIES 2025 | Resisting Extinction | Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad

Resisting Extinction

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad

12+

Friday 23/5 17:00-19:30

Saturday 24/5 10:00-12:30 & 17:00-19:30

Sunday 25/5 10:00-12:30

At Athalassa Park*

Free entrance

Booking required: https://forms.gle/gFD3Gk8Ee1U199th9

For more information about the other events of On Bodies Festival: https://dancehouselefkosia.com/events-2/

Resisting Extinction offers practices for living and dying together on, in and with a damaged earth.

Resisting Extinction invites us to look around and notice what we are losing. Together our bodies live inside this ecological crisis. Recognizing grief as a legitimate response to this multi-species mass extinction. It is a vital step to expand our understanding of what it means to be alive in this swiftly transforming moment. We need to practice embodied knowing to repair our relational field with this more-than-human world. This is an opportunity to move collectively towards creating more ecologies of reciprocity. We must hone our skills. To improvise, to play, to experiment, to be receptive, to be in the unknown and trust we have resources in our bodies to negotiate, survive, and thrive.

Concept: Olive Bieringa

Direction & Choreography: Olive Bieringa & Otto Ramstad

Co-creating performers: Sigrid Marie Kittelsaa Vesaas, Ornilia Ubisse, Hanna Filomen Mjåvatn, Kristina Gjems, Otto Ramstad, Olive Bieringa, Nina Wollny, Daniel Persson, Oliver Connew, Uma Ramstad, Laressa Dickey, Kosta Bogoievski, Josie Archer, Rachel Ruckstuhl-Mann, Olivia McGregor, Amit Noy, Maria Lothe, Eline Selgis,  Helina Karvak, Laura Kvelstein, Nele Suisalu, Joanna Kalm

Performance in Cyprus: Belinda Papavasiliou, Melissa Garcia Carro, Maria Papageorgiou, Ioli Kaskani, Arianna Economou, Vasiliki Tsagkari, Maria Lothe, Otto Ramstad and Olive Bieringa

Writer: Olive Bieringa 

Writing assistant: Laressa Dickey

Costume design: Kristine Gjems

Made possible with support from Perform Europe, PAHN, Norway and Norwegian Embassy of Athens.

Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad have been collaborating as BodyCartography Project since 1998.

Our artistic practice cultivates approaches to support our collective evolution in this moment of planetary crisis. We engage with the vital materiality of bodies, minds, and the more than human world, co-creating live experiences to generate re-enchantment, relationship, and presence through somatics, dance, choreography and performance.

Over the past twenty-six years BodyCartography’s offerings have functioned to deepen the conversation in dance, somatic practice and site work, to give value to other ways of experiencing and making dance. Movement research, somatic and improvisational practice inform the ground of our dance-making and teaching practice.

* Behind Nicosia General Hospital. The exact meeting point will be sent after registration.