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Otto Ramstad (Director, Performer, Video Artist) has an insatiable interest in the process of creating kinesthetic visual images with movement. He has been investigating improvisational movement formally since the age of six starting with master dance teacher and BMC practitioner Suzanne River and since via skateboarding and snowboarding, Capoiera Angola, Butoh, Tai Chi, contact improvisation and Tuning Scores. He is a certified teacher of Body-Mind Centering® and holds a BA in Dance, Improvisation, and the Moving Image. He has been featured in the work of D.D. Dorvillier, Miguel Gutierrez, Morgan Thorson, Shelton Mann, Karen Nelson, Lisa Schmitt, and Kitt Johnson from Denmark. Ramstad has performed solo works in Denmark, Finland, England, New Zealand, Italy, NYC around the USA. His current solo Hello Nervous System was seen in Fresh Tracks at DTW, NYC, The Ritz Theatr, Minneapolis, and PanCreas Festival in Denmark. Ramstad received a DanceWeb scholarship at Impulstanz in Vienna 2005 & 2008. He was an Archibald Bush Fellowship Artist 2006-2008. He was a Rolex Protegé Nominee in 2008.
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