1997

Olive Bieringa founded the BodyCartography Project in San Francisco.

The first large-scale BodyCartography intensive took place in Wellington, New Zealand in 1998 with twenty-three site-specific community events as part of the New Zealand Fringe Festival. The events became an open laboratory in which up to twenty performers of all skill levels and physical ability participated.

The BodyCartography Project began to work in San Francisco with Olive Bieringa, Tom Sepe, Samantha Beers and Tracy Vogel as facilitators. As artists in residence at CELL Space and 848 Community Space BodyCartography offered free weekly laboratories for improvisational practice that planted the seeds for ongoing outdoor performance events.

1999

Otto Ramstad became the Project's co-director alongside Olive Bieringa.

2000

Burning Man funded the project to create a seven day interactive performance event in the desert of Nevada.

2001

Chaffers Marina performance was awarded Best Outdoor Performance award of the New Zealand Fringe Festival.

2002

The first Lagoon performance won Best Outdoor Performance award at the New Zealand Fringe Festival.

From a desire to extend our site work beyond urban centers and explore isolated and wilderness locations we began to work create our first video work ROOM during a residency at Centrum, just outside of Port Townsend, Washington.

2003

Our second dance film Wharepapa, was shot in the South Island wilderness of New Zealand. The film has gone onto screen internationally and on public TV in Minnesota and Poland.

Lambton Harbour Management commissions the performance work Lagoon again and the work becomes the  winner of the prestigious Perlorus Trust Creativity award at the NZ Fringe Festival. Lagoon was seen by an audience of over two and half thousand people over three nights.

2004

Dance film ROOM was highly commended in the experimental category at the Kerry Film Festival in Ireland.

2005

Dance film Seawall won a Certificate of Distinction from American Dance Festival Dancing for the Camera Festival.

2006

Performance Holiday House was commissioned by the Walker Art Center's Momentum series and won the People's Choice at the Minnesota Sage Dance Awards.

We were awarded a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Marin, California.

2007

The site version of Holiday House wins an Outstanding Performance award from the Minnesota Sage Awards.

We begin work on 1/2 Life as artists in residence in Kyoto, Japan working with Japanese dancer Tamami Yamada and physicist Bryce Beverelin II.

An evening of our solo work is presented at Gare Au Theater, Paris.

Our dance films Holiday House and Plant screen on MNTV on Minnesota Public TV.

2008

We were named Artists of the Year by the the Twin Cities City Pages!

Cheshire Dance commissions Station/Stationary, a large community performance and video work for Crewe Train Station, UK.

Entreterritorios a dance film and installation, initiated  and made in collaboration with Marila Veloso, was shot in incredible landscapes of northern Argentina and Brazil. The work premiered in Curitiba, Brazil.

We were named Sustainable Art Making Fellows by Public Art St Paul to examine our working practices in relationship to the state of the environment.

The Holiday House Triology DVD was released containing the original dance film Holiday House and documentation from the award winning stage and site versions.

2009

Holiday House tours to Performance Space 122, NYC as part of COIL Festival to critical acclaim.

We were awarded a residency at K3 Zentrum für Choreographie in Hamburg, Germany.

Curators for the Walker Art Center's Choreographer's Evening.

Performance tour for Dan Graham: Beyond exhibit at the Walker Art Center.

1/2 Life installation and events open at Art of This Gallery in Minneapolis.

2010

1/2 Life opens at the Southern Theater in Minneapolis and tours to Performance Space122, NYC!