Olivia

Olivia Crang

Animateur

Olivia is currently undertaking a professional mentorship with David Pledger (NYID), supported by the Australia Council for the Arts, to develop three new works for company x:machine. She recently worked as an Assistant Director on NYID's studio work 'apoliticaldance'. She has a graduate Diploma in Animateuring VCA and Bachelor of Creative Arts (Honours) the University of Melbourne, VCA. Her theatre practice integrates Japanese performance styles; other forms of physical theatre; cultural and performance theory; virtual space; computer programming; film projection and “noise”. Olivia is trained in Butoh in Australia and Japan with Diarakudakan, Butoh-sha Tenkei, Zen Zen Zo, Tadashi Okamura and Yoshito Ohno. Whilst in Tokyo she also trained and worked with Gekidan Kaitaisha in 'Dream Regime' (2005). She has worked extensively with visual artist Alex Gibson in A Dream of Rigamortis (2003), Amaterasu (2004), Trialect (2004), Gaikokujin Experimenta, Tokyo (2005) and Senseless (2006). Olivia’s theatre credits also include performances staged at the Artland - Tokyo, Tokyo Big Site, fourtyfivedownsatris, the Abottsford Convent, the VCA, La Mama, the Carlton Courthouse, the Open Stage, the Adelaide and Melbourne Fringe Festivals and the Fairfax Studio of the Victorian Arts Centre. Olivia also teaches drama at the National Theatre and Performing Arts Headquarters.