Olga de Soto

Biography

Olga de Soto is a choreographer, dancer and dance researcher, born in Spain. She lives in Brussels since 1990. After training in classical dance, contemporary dance and music theory in her native country, she studied at the prestigious CNDC school in Angers.

        As a dancer, she has worked with Michèle Anne de Mey, Pierre Droulers, Felix Ruckert („Hautnah!“), Meg Stuart („Crash Landing @ Leuven“), Boris Charmatz and Jérôme Bel, with whom she collaborated for over five years, as an assistant and performer, in the show „The Show Must Go On“.

Her choreographic work began in 1992, with the creation of the solo „Patios“, followed by „I believe that if I act… (…upon the dimension of time it will be difficult to find myself at the place where I am expected to be)“ (1993), „Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues“ (1996), „Strumentale“ (Mexico 1997), „Eclats mats“ (2001), „INCORPORER“ (2004-2009) and „histoire(s)“ (Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2004). In 2010 she created the first part of her project on Kurt Jooss’ „The Green Table“: An Introduction at Tanz Im August.

For about a decade, Olga de Sotos work has concentrated on the theme of “memory”, and the impact of live art, its usefulness and its lasting quality. Her projects include a long process of research and documentation and therefore entirely disconnected from the classical production logic.

She has been regularly invited to lead workshops and classes, as well as to collaborated in conferences, where she shares her research methodology and her documentation work (Folkwang University Essen, CNDC d'Angers, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, et. al.). Olga de Soto has been associate artist at Les Halles, in Brussels and lately took upadministrative residency at La Raffinerie in Brussels.