OLGA BARRIOS
Choreographer and dancer- Artistic director Vanguardia Dance- Colaborator of multidisciplinary projects
ABOUT
Olga es una artista con varios reconocimientos, ha colaborado con compañías de teatro, musicales y de danza así como en proyectos multidisciplinarios en Canadá, Estados Unidos y Colombia. Tiene una maestría en danza en la Universidad York de Toronto. Olga es originaria de Bogotá- Colombia y actualmente trabaja con proyectos de intercambio entre Colombia y Canadá.
“Considero las artes un eslabón básico en el proceso de construcción de comunidad y sociedad. Como coreógrafa y bailarina que vive en un mundo contemporáneo, exploro mi realidad personal como mujer cuya vida se ve afectada por la herencia cultural pero también por la información global, la tecnología y todo el movimiento en el tiempo, el espacio. y energía.
El diálogo y contraste entre movimiento, sonido, música, gesto, voz y contexto son elementos importantes en el desarrollo de mis creaciones. Me interesan los trabajos multidisciplinarios y busco la colaboración con artistas de diferentes orígenes culturales que trabajan con artes escénicas y visuales”.
Olga
REPERTOIRE
Portafolio of works
GENOVEVA
Inspirted in the book "Tejedora de Coronas". 2017
PETUNIA
A rhythmic and rebel "comun" flower. Powerful solo by Olga.
ARRASTRE AZUL
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.
SERIE: SANGRE
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.
CALENDAR
jue, 09 eneToronto09 ene 2025, 11:50Toronto, citadel toronto
sáb, 17 febSanta Marta17 feb 2024, 17:00 – 17:30Santa Marta, Carrera 2 Parque Simón Bolívar, Comuna 2, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
sáb, 27 eneMinca27 ene 2024, 18:00 – 19:00Minca, Minca, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
mié, 08 abrSala Otto de Greiff08 abr 2020, 17:00 – 21:00Sala Otto de Greiff, Cl. 39 Bis #14-57, Bogotá, Colombia
jue, 13 febResidencia Canibal13 feb 2020, 17:00 – 13 mar 2020, 21:00Residencia Canibal, Barrio abajo, Barranquilla, Atlántico, Colombia13 feb 2020, 17:00 – 13 mar 2020, 21:00Residencia Canibal, Barrio abajo, Barranquilla, Atlántico, ColombiaCome to Barranquilla for Carnivals, at the Canibal Residency. You can join Olga experimenting with in the work Cabaret Carnaval, or you can just explore any aspect of the Carnivals. Call open to artists of diverse disciplines: Visual artists, writers, photographers, sound artists, choreographers.
sáb, 11 enePozos Colorados11 ene 2020, 7:00 – 10:00Pozos Colorados, Pozos Colorados, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
sáb, 14 dicPlaya Pozos Colorados14 dic 2019, 7:00 – 10:00Playa Pozos Colorados, Pozos Colorados, Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia
Dance is poetry in movement
COLABORACIONES
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.
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PLATAFORMA PATAEGANSO
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.
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