Choreographer and visual artist, Olga Mesa is one of the key figures in contemporary Spanish dance. Since the 1990s, her search for a personal and renewed writing of the body has led her to affirm the intimate part of representation, through a construction that combines expression and perception.

In her international career, she proposes works of an experimental nature, deliberately on the fringes of dance, performance and visual arts.

Her scenic pieces are essentially developed in thematic projects : The body trilogy « Res, non verba » (1996-1999), the cycle in five movements « More public, more private » (2001-2006) and the « labOfilm » project (2010- 2012).

For the past ten years, she has been working with the out-of-format artist Francisco Ruiz de Infante on the construction of the choreographic, plastic and audiovisual project « Carmen // Shakespeare» (2012-2022).

Together, they direct the Hors // Champ // Fuera de Campo company, creating context and practices for the interdisciplinary arts.

Olga Mesa also directs choreographic creation workshops and laboratories using the body as a narrative medium. In these contexts, she dialogues with processes of analysis and reflections linked to other arts : cinema, sound, visual arts and literature.

She is currently working on a new solo piece : « A table of one’s own (hands dance)» and preparing a retrospective exhibition for the CGAC in Santiago de Compostela (2023).

Based in Strasbourg since 2005, her company’s scenic creations have been presented at various festivals and artistic institutions in France, Spain, Portugal, the United States, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Austria, England, Uruguay, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Morocco, Mali…