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- School/Business/Organization
- kim olson / sweet edge
- Title (Occupation)
- Choreographer and Artistic Director
- Tell us about yourself
- kim olson is the Choreographer / Artistic Director of sweet edge. Her work has been featured throughout Canada, Germany, Guatemala, Japan, Mexico, Scotland, Trinidad and the US. She is an active member of the Mariposa Collective, a multi-disciplinary think tank, and Think 360, where she performs arts education outreach.Olson formed kim olson/sweet edge in 2001, after moving to Colorado and having performed in NYC with Randy Warshaw Dance Company, Pam Tanowitz/024, Donna Uchizono Company, and internationally with the Stephen Petronio Company.
Olson received Best Emerging Choreography, Choreographer and Female Dancer nominations at the Monaco Dance Forum Nijinsky Awards. Commissions include: Links Project, Deafinative Motion, Movement Alliance, Ballet Nouveau, Denver Art Museum, Naropa University, Iowa State University, DanceForms, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Aspen EcoFringe Festival, Aspen Dance Connection and Tanzcompagnie Giessen (TanzArt Ostwest). Olson also teaches internationally.
Olson continues collaborative projects with video artist Ana Baer Carrillo. Their work is featured internationally via the San Souci Festival of Dance Cinema, and was awarded CATV’s Best Experimental Video Media Award. Olson is also in current collaboration with fashion designer Paula Hutman, and worked in recent projects with installation artist Patricia Tinajero and composer Randy Gibson. More info? kim@sweetedge.org / www.sweetedge.org.
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