Olga Barrios is multi-award choreographer and dancer for more than 25 years, also an arts educator, producer, video dance creator and the co-founder and co-artistic director of Vanguardia Dance Projects since 2008. MFA at York University of Toronto. Olga has collaborated with dance, theater, musical and multidisciplinary projects in Canada, USA and Colombia with diverse companies and troupes. As dance teacher she has worked in Montreal, Hamilton, Kitchener, Toronto, San Francisco, New Jersey and varied cities in Colombia. Olga is original from Bogotá and currently working with exchange projects between Colombia and Canada.
Her more recent works include – choreographer and performer for “Dreaming in Blue” (Underwater Dance Film) 2020, “Hybrid Women” (Vanguardia Dance Projects creation) 2021, Echoe of Hair 2023, and her more recent production “Conversations: Hidden Stories” 2025 a collaboration between Aanmitaagzi and Vanguardia. Currently in development “Memories of Water” with Latitude-s Collective 2022-25.
www.olgabarrios.com
