OLGA BARRIOS, Choreographer and dancer- Artistic director Vanguardia Dance- Colaborator of multidisciplinary projects
ABOUT
Olga is a multi-award winner artist, she has collaborated with theater, musical and dance companies as well in multidisciplinary projects in Canada, USA and Colombia. She holds an MFA in dance at York University of Toronto. Olga is original from Bogotá- Colombia and currently working with exchange projects between Colombia and Canada.
“I consider the arts a basic link in the process of building community and society. As a choreographer and dancer that lives in a contemporary world I explore my personal reality as a woman whose life is affected by cultural heritage but also by global information, technology and all the movement in time, space. and energy.
The dialogue and contrast between movement, sound, music, gesture, voice and context are important elements in the development of my creations. I am interested in multidisciplinary works and I pursue the collaboration with artists from different cultural backgrounds that work with performing and visual arts.”
Olga
REPERTOIRE
Portafolio of works
From bizarre tangled dreams, to hairstyle escape routes, to dispossession, censorship and hair desires.
A dialogue of women throught the Americas.
A collaboration between Vanguardia Dance and Aanmitaagzi.
Directeb by Olga Barrios
A Vanguardia Dance production, it is a site-specific ritual. Premiered in 2020 at the Niff Fest. Presented at Impact theater fest 2023, Vanguardia Dance Fest 2021, Festa Bogotá 2022.
THE ECHOE OF A HAIR
Premiered as short piece in 2016, Toronto
and as full length work in 2018, Colombia
GENOVEVA
Inspirted in the book "Tejedora de Coronas". 2017
BLUE TRAWL
A contemporary dance work inspired by the Colombian Caribbean.
Creation Research Grant in Dance, Colombian Ministry of Culture 2014. Premiered in Santa Marta, Colombia.
THE CALL OF THE SHELLS
Site Specific at the comunity of Pozos colorados. 2014
A dance work for stage in collaboration with Oscar Leone 2006.
BLOOD- SERIES
A compilation of three works: Behind Window (solo work), Moving Earth (dance installation), and the Absent ones (work for 6 women). Created for the MFA at York University, 2010.
REMEMBERING THE FAREWELLS
A dance theatre solo work.
Honor mention, Colombian Ministry of Culture Awards 2004.
Dance is poetry in movement
COLLABORATIONS
Working with diverse projects
One important aspect of Olga´s work is sharing ideas and explorations with artists and projects of diverse geograpraghies and pulsions. Thus, here are the currently collaborations.
KEEPING THE DISTANCE
Collaboration by Olga Barrios and Edgardo Moreno.
“Keeping the distance: Sculpting image in a shifted body, is a series of experimental videos (6 vignettes) where the process departs from the notion of a body as the place where the vibrations of creation start, connecting with the idea of the present situation of Covid 19, where the bodies are sick and need to be isolated. All activities are asking for the distance of the bodies. That is how many of the life activities need to be transformed in a digital space for a while, and we need to surf into it to keep contact. Meeting with friends, working, going to an event, having parties, and of course to continue our space of artistic creation as an important way of constructing society. Many things are connected now through virtual spaces. That raises questions related with a political body and the frontiers.
.png)
PATAEGANSO PLATFORM
A performative space in Barranquilla, Colombia
Co-directed and created by Olga Barrios and Tania Iglesias, since august 2017 in Barranquilla, Colombia.
PATA E GANSO (goose leg) is a space open to impulse artistic scenic creation and production of works.
The colective has a constant open call for artists in different levels of thier career, and it is also a space open to present works in different moments of development.
TRIANGLE PROJECT COLLECTIVE
Interdisciplinary work
Choreographer Olga Barrios (Colombian/Canadian), performance artist/activist Coman Poon (Chinese-Canadian/Settler-immigrant) and musician/composer Edgardo Moreno developped The triangle project, a cross-disciplinary and polyaesthetic artistic conversation across physical and technologically mediated distance, where three artists from three different latitudes send signals to each other in order to transmute the space between.
CONTACT
