Olivia Gotsch (she/her) is a student of the human legacy of dance as spiritual practice and biological necessity. Born and raised in Chicago, she began her training at Hyde Park School of Dance, spent summers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater, and studied anthropology and dance at Vassar College. Olivia has worked with choreographers Desmond Richardson, Jennifer Archibald, Amy Hall Garner, Mike Tyus, Stephanie Martinez, Adam Weinert, Yoshito Sakuraba, Kirven Douthit-Boyd, and Starr Foster. She currently performs with Conflux Dance Theater in Richmond, VA under director Miguel Perez.

Olivia is interested in people as dancers and dancers as people. She has created work for Dogwood Dance Project, Gridlock Dance’s Motion Mixer series, and Vassar College’s MODfest. Grounded in the technical vocabularies of classical modern and ballet, her choreography employs embodied anthropological study to inform her themes, movement, and creative process. She approaches the human body as a microcosm of our larger landscape as well as a site for metamorphosis.