In the 17th episode of LIFE THAT SAID YES conversations Ivan is joined by Olive Bieringa in a lovely exchange about awakening the senses and opening the perception, new ways of learning, rewilding of the human spirit, performance art and resisting extinction through ecosomatic practices.Olive Bieringa is a dance maker, somatic movement therapist and cultural producer who grew up in Wellington, New Zealand. She is a Registered ISMETA Somatic Movement Therapist and Educator, a Certified Practitioner and Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Shiatsu practitioner and certified DanceAbility teacher, working with dancers of all abilities. She holds an MFA in Performance and New Media from Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY and a BA from the European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands. She is currently based in Oslo, Norway.Olive teaches internationally in Body-Mind Centering® trainings for Moveus/Germany, Leben nuova/Italy, Moving from Within/USA, Soma/France, Sonder/USA and in universities and festivals such as Oslo National Academy of the Arts, Praxis Festival/Oslo, Impulstanz Festival/Vienna, Movement Research/NYC, and for dance companies Lyon Opera Ballet, Footnote Dance, Touch Compass/New Zealand. As a curator & producer she has developed projects such as SEEDS Festival (Somatic Experiments in Earth, Dance and Science) at Earthdance/USA and Public Art St Paul’s City Art Collaboratory, bringing together artists and scientists.For twenty years she has been collaborating with Otto Ramstad as the BodyCartography Project creating dances, performances, films, installations, and festivals. BodyCartography’s offerings have functioned to deepen the conversation in experimental and somatic practice to give value to other ways of experiencing and making dance. Their work lives in the collection of Te Papa Tongarewa National Museum of New Zealand. Their performances have presented at the Walker Art Center/Minneapolis, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, PS 122 and American Realness/NYC, amongst other places. Together they run Embodied Performance intensives for performing artists.https://bodycartography.org/