Olga Zitluhina

Olga Žitluhina (Latvia) is a choreographer, dancer and teacher – the most influential personality in Latvian contemporary dance scene, head of a program of contemporary dance in Latvian Academy of Culture. She has been the artistic director of Olga Zitluhina Dance Company from 1996 to 2012. The company was the only professional contemporary dance group in Latvia for more than decade. Olga’s productions have been performed and she was teaching in China, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Lithuania, Macedonia, Mexico, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA. Since 2006 she is director of international contemporary dance festival “LAIKS DEJOT” in Riga.

Olga Zitluhina`s artistic bio in numbers:

53 years – dancing
39 years – choreographing
39 years – teaching and sharing dance
22 years teaching in the State Ballet school
18 years – the director of contemporary dance program in Latvian academy of culture
10 years as Professor
13 years – the art director of LAIKS DEJOT , contemporary dance festival in Riga, Latvia
20 performances for her own company
3 performances for Latvian National Ballet company
2 performances for break dance company Camelot
6 performances abroad (China, USA)
56 hours SOLO dancing in 2014
27 years – the official alien
20 countries performed and taught
2 times awarded as best contemporary dance performance in Latvia
1 award of first Latvian Dance Prize in 2019

OLGA ZITLUHINA
Choreographer, dancer, Teacher
Artistic Director of Contemporary dance festival LAIKS DEJOT
Director of contemporary dance program in Latvian Academy of Culture
Artistic director of artistic society PARTY
Artistic director of “Lifelong Dance Practice: Project 45+”