Born in Ukraine, Olga Dukhovnaya trained at Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker’s P.A.R.T.S school in Brussels, then at the Centre National de Danse Contemporaine in Angers under Emmanuelle Huynh. She moved to France and began an intensive collaboration with Boris Charmatz, while at the same time pursuing her own research. As a choreographer, she finds herself at the crossroads of artistic currents that might seem incompatible, but whose clashes and other creative collisions she likes to explore: a lost folklore, erased by the Soviet regime, and a heritage of contemporary dance that she discovered during her studies in Belgium and then in France. In 2022, she created Swan Lake, a solo entirely edited in her bedroom during confinement using extracts from Swan Lake viewed on Youtube. In 2024, she created Hopak, inspired by the military training of the Cossacks, and WAR(M) at the Théâtre Louis Aragon in Tremblay, where she is an associate artist: a day of performances, concerts, workshops and meetings that aims to celebrate Ukraine and conjugate its culture in the present. She is a winner of the DanceWeb grant (Austria), the Aerowaves platform (Dublin) and the Danse Élargie competition (Paris).
CURRENTLY IN
Stabat Mater
Wuthering Heights
