Thin water describes the tenuous, fleeting, evaporating ground on which we stand at given moments in history. What began as a site-specific work for Silver Square in the RiNo Arts District in Denver, quickly evolved into a broad and elaborate experiment in the loss of space and the realization of misplacement - the search for home.

Eight dancers involved in the project have gathered to rehearse in a warehouse, streets, studio, garden and galleries. The irony behind the artistic vision and the reality of lack of resources and space has lead to an emergence of fierce aesthetic sensation - ground and fluidity, dependency and fragility. Movement based in flexible spontaneity uproots the dancers from typical kinesthetic comforts and structures into an unpredictable environment of the elementally liquid unknown.

thin WATER blue ICE has been and will continue to be an evolving project, and will appear in a myriad of forms as the work grows. Designed for performance in public and private spaces, the work is no longer site-specific, but site free - it's choreographic structure allowing for complete manipulation of composure to suit any circumstance, any place.




Butter Colored Hum...phase 2

Will be a continuation of vignettes forming the full suite Butter Colored Hum. Inspired by mangled trash bags and newspapers fused and dancing in barbed wire fences along the HW 93 en route to Boulder … the chaotic beauty of detritus. 

Using a host of reclaimed materials - VHS tapes, cellophane, fibers, paper, aluminum cans, banana peels and more plastics... Butter Colored Hum will evoke specific ecosystems of consumption.  Each movement inspired by the lush textures of dyed “stuff” in rearranged forms of aesthetic texture echo the ephemeral affection of our society to consume and discard.  Touching, tearing disintegration collides with the physicality of life.  As costumed materials restructure implications on the character of consumptive culture, the hope remains that the human ingenuity that put together a convenient world will reorganize to create a sustainable world.  

Butter Colored Hum will be performed for stage and installation. Collaborating artist include Paula Hutman (fashion/design), Patricia Tinajero (visual/installation) and Ana Baer Carrillo (video).





Spring 2010 Residency

ATLAS Center for Arts Media & Performance
Boulder, CO

Olson and Choreographer Nathan Montgomery of Sysygy Butoh collaborate in a 6 month residency at the ATLAS which will include activities for the Boulder community and CU Boulder student body, and conclude with a full evening multi-media event. Other collaborating artists include composer, musician Laura Goldhamer and video artist Ana Baer Carrillo.