Olive Bieringa is a dance, performance and visual artist working at the intersection of social and creative practice, pedagogy, and healing. She holds a BA in dance from  European Dance Development Center in the Netherlands and completed her MFA in Performance and New Media at Long Island University in Brooklyn, NY.  She is a Registered ISMETA Somatic Movement Therapist, Somatic Movement Dance Therapist and a Certified Teacher of Body-Mind Centering®, Shiatsu practitioner and DanceAbility teacher, working with performers of all abilities. She is the Program Director for Somatic Education Australasia’s Body-Mind Centering® program in Melbourne, Australia and currently a Doctoral Candidate in Dance at UniArts, Helsinki. She has curated art and science projects for Public Art St. Paul, and Earthdance in Massachusetts. She is part of team that runs PRAXIS Oslo, a laboratory for the study of dance and movement-based forms in Oslo, Norway and collaborates with Otto Ramstad as the BodyCartography Project.