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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.

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“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

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REPERTOIRE

Portafolio of works

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A FLOR DE PELO- Hairy stories

From bizarre tangled dreams, to hairstyle escape routes, to dispossession, censorship and hair desires.

CONVERSATIONS:
Hidden Stories



PREMIERE March 27 to 30th, 2025

A dialogue of women throught the Americas.  

A collaboration between Vanguardia Dance and Aanmitaagzi.

Directeb by Olga Barrios

MUJERES HIBRIDAS

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.

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MESTIZA

Dance instalation premiered at Museo del Oro Tairona in Santa Marta, Colombia. 2019

CABARET CARNAVAL

A hydrid dance work premiered at Quinta de San Pedro Santa Marta, Colombia 2018-19

THE ECHOE OF A HAIR

Premiered as short piece in 2016, Toronto
and as full length work in 2018, Colombia

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GENOVEVA

Inspirted in the book "Tejedora de Coronas".   2017

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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.

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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.

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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.

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REMEMBERING THE FAREWELLS

A dance theatre solo work.
Honor mention, Colombian Ministry of Culture Awards 2004.

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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.

 â€œKeeping 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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FEMININ IN TEA

A dance theatre work

A new work,  co-created by Olga Barrios and Monica Gontovnik, departing from the poems of the book Feminin in tea by Monica Gontovnik.   With guest performer Norma Araiza. Recently presented in Toronto at the Citadel.

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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.



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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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