OLGA BLANCO GALÁN. (BARCELONA, 1977)
DIRECTOR
The La Señorita Blanco project began in 2015 under the direction of Olga Blanco. In 2016, it won the Caravana de Trailers of the Colectivo GRUA within the international festival Terrassa Noves Tendències(TNT) with the piece nosoyrusa# (una peli de tu vida). This first solo piece is supported by the Centro de Danza Canal, Graner, La Caldera, FID, Antic Teatre, Festival TNT and OSIC (Generalitat de Catalunya) and premiered in September 2017 as part of the TNT Festival.
In 2018, Losdemás/Paisaje (first public test of the research Paisaje dentro de Paisaje) and in 2019, Sacrificio will premiere at Teatro Español, as part of the ZIP Festival programme.
2020 is a complicated year, but in the same year the artist receives a call from Blanca Li and begins to research her next big production. In that year she was also invited as a resident at the NYU King Juan Carlos of Spain I Center in New York, where she develops her research on Iberian folklore and landscape, as well as being invited by Macomad to present her piece Trashumancia at the I Encuentros Iberoamericanos en la Red.
In June 2021 she premieres Paisaje dentro de Paisaje: 1. Sacrificio at the Sala Negra Los Teatros del Canal, closing the season of the same. During the same year he continues his research on Paisaje dentro de Paisaje within the Sonoridad.es programme at the NYU King Juan Carlos of Spain I Center in New York. During the residency he holds a public conversation with the writer and scientist Remedios Zafra and develops her piece Llanura (installation), which she will premiere in person at NYU in October 2022.
In May 2022, she will give the workshop Desaparecer el Cuerpo para que aparece Lo Animal (Disappear the Body so that the Animal Appears) as part of th programme of the Sala Pradillo.
On the other hand, the artist is developing her thesis Landscape within Landscape: A Theory of Aesthetics and Ritual in Performance, which has been awarded the performance, which has been awarded one of the OSIC (Generalitat de Catalunya) research and thought grants.
At the same time, he is working on the piece berrea/anunciación/compás, which he will premiere at the Real Coliseo Carlos III in San Lorenzo del Escorial in October 2022.
In January 2023 she travels to Mexico City at the invitation of the Museo del Chopo, UNAM and the Centro Cultural de España en México de AECID. In May 2023 she premieres the piece Paisaje dentro de Paisaje: 2. Lo Animal, co-produced by Teatros del Canal.
The artist is currently working on the research and production of the last piece of the trilogy Paisaje dentro de Paisaje, Acto de fe, which will premiere at the end of 2025, as well as on the internationalisation of the project.
In December 2023, Olga Blanco was appointed Resident Artistic Director of Artes Vivas at the Teatros del Canal.