SYMPTOM
Co-presented with The Body Cartography Project
PERFORMANCES: Thursday-Sunday, November 11-14 at 7:30PM
Symptom is a new dance work featuring twin siblings dancer Otto Ramstad and visual artist Emmett Ramstad. Join them as they examine the human body, as both an object of study and as a producer of knowledge, investigate notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, tease out dynamics of sibling rivalry, and explore the gaps between seeing, knowing and empathy. Symptom inspects the slippage between subjective and objective understandings of the human body, where a symptom acts as an indicator, trait, feature, mark or sign that is open for interpretation.
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$10 advance, students, seniors | $12 door
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by calling (612) 871-4444.
Pre-sold tickets are available for pick-up through will call at Intermedia Arts on each performance evening. If tickets are not claimed 15 minutes after the scheduled start time of the performance, the unclaimed tickets may be released to a waiting list.
ABOUT THE BODY CARTOGRAPHY PROJECT
The BodyCartography Project was founded in 1998 and is co-directed by dance and video artists Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad. Our work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work. We engage and provoke audiences in diverse contexts working with independent artists, communities, organizations and scientists. Our work has been presented in Minneapolis, San Francisco, NYC, Canada, New Zealand, Japan, Europe, Russia and South America.
Our site-specific work invites participants to enter their animal-like appetites and childlike curiosities for physical investigation through engagement of the sensorial body. We activate space and challenge social and perceptual limitations of physical freedom and imagination. Our work for the stage or gallery questions the space between the real materials of the body, the architecture, and the hyper real designed materials of video, light, sound and new technologies.
Our work is rooted in the performative, choreographic, filmic and conceptual practices that have emerged over the past century but in particular since the 1960’s. Our work is fed by Body-Mind Centering®, a somatic form of movement research that address’ the anatomy and physiology of the body in an experiential way. This work puts guts in our dancing and puts our minds in our bodies.
