Otto Ramstad

The senses in the field of perception
Our senses begin as potential and develop in response to stimulation and experience.  The senses of movement and touch are the first to develop and are located throughout the tissues of the body and in every cell.  The senses of smell, hearing, taste and vision are located in the head.  All the senses are a conduits of information between our internal environment and the external environment. How we use that conduit to interact with information is part of the holographic action of perceiving. This workshop will cover all the senses and the perceptual process with a special attention to how the senses interact with the nervous system.  We will work with noticing the patterns of how we use our senses and play with manipulating our sensory organs to create new ways of gathering information and creating new movement.  

Otto Ramstad (Minneapolis MN) 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 bodies' 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. Ramstad 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. Ramstad has taught at a long list of companies, schools and festivals since 1994.

www.bodycartography.org

Price: 850 kr. (115 EURO)

Max. participants: 12

Time and place - Copenhagen
18-19/4 2009 10.00-16.00
X-act’s studio, Struenseegade 15A, 3. th., 2200 Copenhagen N

Time and place - Aarhus
2-3/5 2009 10.00-16.00     
Brobjergskolen, Frederiks Allé 20, 8000 Aarhus C