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15 – 25 April 2009

Archauz/Aarhus
27 April – 6 May 2009
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Otto Ramstad (USA): Hello Nervous System
Playing in between scientific observer and empathetic participant, Ramstad teases out distinctions between the nervous system and his nervous system. He is researching how the nervous system spreads a net of attention throughout the body, physically touches all of its substance, and functions as an aggregate of processes. Hello Nervous System is not an anatomical study, but the insistent position that the dancer you see in front of you is first and foremost a person.

Choreography/Performance: Otto Ramstad
Music: Tim Glenn
Lighting Design: Olive Bieringa
Film: Josie Winship
Film Editing: Otto Ramstad

Otto Ramstad is a dance and video artist with an insatiable interest in the process of creating kinesthetic visual images with movement. He is a practitioner of Body-Mind Centering. Ramstad co-directs, with Olive Bieringa, The BodyCartography Project. They build dance, video and installation works that investigate the body’s relationship to the physical, architectural, climatic, technological and social landscapes in urban/wilderness and private/public contexts. Their award winning works have been presented in the US, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, and Russia. He was a scholarship student at Impulstanz in Vienna in 2005 and 2008 and received a two-year fellowship from the Archibald Bush Foundation in 2006. He has danced in the work of Morgan Thorson, Sara Shelton Mann, DD Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, and Kitt Johnson, amongst others. Work in progress versions of Hello Nervous System have been seen in Fresh Tracks at Dance Theater Workshop, NYC, Gare au Theatre, Paris and at the Ritz Theater, Minneapolis.

www.bodycartography.org
 
COPENHAGEN
wed 15/4 Aortas Partitur 20.00 (K2)
thu 16/4 Aortas Partitur 20.00 (K2)
fri 17/4 Rankefod 20.00 (K2)
sat 18/4 BMC-Workshop Otto Ramstad
2 days: sat 10-16, sun 10-16
(X-act studio, Cph)
sat 18/4 Rankefod 20.00 (K2)
sun 19/4 BMC-Workshop Otto Ramstad
2 days: sat 10-16, sun 10-16
(X-act studio, Cph)
tue 21/4 Palimpsest 20.00 (K2)
wed 22/4 BMC-workshop Regina Biermann
3 days: wed 13-19, thu 10-16, fri 10-16 (X-act studio, Cph)
wed 22/4 Palimpsest 20.00 (K2)
Artist Talk after the performance
Moderator: Monna Dithmer
thu 23/4 BMC-workshop Regina Biermann
3 days: wed 13-19, thu 10-16, fri 10-16 (X-act studio, Cph)
fri 24/4 BMC-workshop Regina Biermann
3 days: wed 13-19, thu 10-16, fri 10-16 (X-act studio, Cph)
fri 24/4 Tripple-programme with Mossoux-Bonté, Otto Ramstad, Anders Christiansen 20.00 (K2)
sat 25/4 Seminar 10.00-17.00 (K2 foyer)
sat 25/4 Tripple-programme with Mossoux-Bonté, Otto Ramstad, Anders Christiansen 20.00 (K2)
Artist Talk after the performance
Moderator: Monna Dithmer
AARHUS
mon 27/4 Tripple-programme with Mossoux-Bonté, Otto Ramstad, Anders Christiansen
20.00 (Archauz)
tue 28/4 Tripple-programme with Mossoux-Bonté, Otto Ramstad, Anders Christiansen
20.00 (Archauz)
Artist Talk after the performance
Moderator: Camilla Grunnet
thu 30/4 Aortas Partitur 20.00 (Archauz)
fri 1/5 Aortas Partitur 20.00 (Archauz)
sat 2/5 BMC-Workshop Otto Ramstad
2 days: sat 10-16, sun 10-16
(Brobjergskolen, Aarhus)
sat 2/5 Rankefod 17.00 (Archauz)
Please note early performance
sun 3/5 BMC-Workshop Otto Ramstad
2 days: sat 10-16, sun 10-16
(Brobjergskolen, Aarhus)
sun 3/5 Rankefod 20.00 (Archauz)
tue 5/5 Palimpsest 20.00 (Archauz)
wed 6/5 Palimpsest 20.00 (Archauz)
Artist Talk after the performance
Moderator: Camilla Grunnet
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The PanCreas project is co-produced with the venues Kaleidoskop and Archauz.
Kitt Johnson X-act receives funding from the Danish Arts Council for the period 2006-09.
PanCreas is also supported by Wilhelm Hansen Fonden, Augustinus Fonden and Statens Teaterskoles Efteruddannelse.		 www.kittjohnson.dk