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
Group works for touring
Solo works
Solo works ready to tour. Choreographed and perfomed by Olga.
Remembering the Farewells (Recordando los Adioses)
An awared dance theatre full lengh solo work.
Honorific mention, Colombian Ministry of Culture Awards 2004.
Other works
Independent selected works directed choreographed and produced by Olga
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.
LATITUDE-S COLLECTIVE
Collaboration by Olga Barrios and Edgardo Moreno.
In 2020 we started an artistic collaboration connected by video and online interactions, creating a series of experimental videos to be presented in diverse formats (screenings, online, exhibition, installation format). Starting with the connection of bodies in diverse landscapes and soundscapes, we aim to create an interdisciplinary dialogue between video, dance and sound design. Our questions are connected to shifted bodies in migration/displacement due to climate change and human impact.
Works:
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.
Memories of Water: Creation in Canada, Chile and Colombia. Series of 8 videos. Performance and installation in progress.
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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.
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