Olivia McGregor (Muaūpoko, Ngāti Raukawa) is a dance artist from Te Awa Kairangi ki Tai, Lower Hutt. Olivia has performed around Europe and Aotearoa in dance theatre, performance art installations and film with companies including Atamira Dance Company, Footnote New Zealand Dance, The New Zealand Dance Company, Constanza Macras- Dorky Park, July Weber, Andre Uerba and Matteo Graziano. Her Choreographic work has been presented at Tiny Festival (2024).
2026
Wellesley Summer Residency/ Celia Hext/ Auckland, New Zealand
Perth Moves Wellesley Bursary recipient/ Strut Dance/Boorloo, Western Australia
2025
Destination Earth/ Cellule Studio/ Atamira Dance Company
Kia Pohewatia/ Atamira Dance Company/ Auckland New Zealand
Together, Yes/ Ross McCormack/ New Zealand Dance Company/ Contact Dance Festival/Singapore
The Buried Tiki/ Bianca Hyslop, Rowan Pierce, Tui Ranapiri Ransfield / Auckland New Zealand
Commentary of Dreaming/ Jeremy Beck, Company Beck / Dunedin, New Zealand
Wrest/ Red Leap Theatre / Auckland New Zealand
Soft Phase/ Olivia McGregor / Make Shift evening / Perth, Australia
2024
Soft Phase/ Olivia McGregor / Tiny Festival, Christchurch New Zealand
Tātai Whetu/ Atamira Dance Company / Tempo Dance Festival, Auckland New Zealand
Errant/ Amit Noy / Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki/ Auckland New Zealand
Wellesley Studios Short Term Residency/ Auckland New Zealand
Atlas Choreographic Training Programme / ImPulsTanz / Vienna Austria
Embryonic Punch/ Bec Jensen/ Auckland New Zealand
Pedestrian Guidance/ Josie and Kosta / Performance Arcade, Wellington New Zealand
Dance, Danced, Dancing (2024)/Josie and Kosta / Summer at Q, Auckland New Zealand
2023
Movement Art Practice Reciprocal Residency/ Christchurch New Zealand
Artefact/ The New Zealand Dance Company- Ross McCormack / Tauranga Arts Festival
Once More With Feeling/ David Huggins / Festival of Live Art (F.O.L.A), Auckland New Zealand
Extanz Vol. 2/ Katrina Bastian / Development, Auckland New Zealand
Resisting Extinction/ Body Cartography Project / The Performance Arcade, Wellington New Zealand
2022
Artefact/ The New Zealand Dance Company, Dunedin Arts Festival, Nelson Arts Festival/ Auckland War Memorial Museum/
The Arts Centre Te Matatiki Toi Ora
Permanent Distraction/ Josie and Kosta/Christchurch New Zealand
Daybreak Estate/ Jesse McCall /Christchurch New Zealand, Auckland New Zealand
Footnote Dance Company - Choreolab / Tutor
2021
Solo for a body/ Alice Weber- / Tiny Festival/ Christchurch, New Zealand
Extanz Vol. 1, AN EPIC ON POWER/ Katrina Bastian / Tiny Festival/ Christchurch, New Zealand
POOLSIDE/ Olivia Webb, Julia Harvey / Movement Art Practice / Christchurch, New Zealand
Let's talk shop/ New Zealand Dance Company-Josie and Kosta / Monster Valley / Auckland, New Zealand
Closer/ Footnote New Zealand Dance- The Body Cartography Project / The Performance Arcade/ Wellington, New Zealand
2020
Cathartic Technology/ Jeremy Shaw / Centre Pompidou / Paris France
The Politics of Dreaming/ Alexa Wilson/ March- Residency Wellesley Studios/ Auckland New Zealand
Performing Object I David Huggins / Experimental Dance Week Aotearoa/ Auckland New Zealand
Once More With Feeling/ David Huggins /Little Andromeda/Christchurch New Zealand
Dance.Mov/ Josie and Kosta / Research Development/ Christchurch Art and Culture Centre,
2019
Togethering/ Body Cartography Project / Schous Plass, Oslo Norway
Deep Sky Objects/ Matteo Graziano / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany
Sight Seeing/ Julian Weber /STUK, Playground Festival, Leuven Belgium/ Ujazdowski Castle/ Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw Poland
Streaming/ Julian Weber / Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre, Bangkok Thailand
Brancusi Bewegen/ Julian Weber/Oliver Connew / PACT Zollverein, Essen Germany
2018
Sight Seeing/ Julian Weber/ Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany
D.R.A.G/ Wilhelm Gröener / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany
Burn Time/ Andre Uerba / Open Spaces, Ufer Studios Berlin Germany
Something/ Constanza Macras- Dorky Park / Verlin studios, Berlin Germany
Lisa Densem (Sacha Waltz & Guests)/ Research Period, Berlin Germany
The Time It takes To Melt My Heart/ Judith Förster / Ada Studio, Berlin Germany
2016-2017
The Bony Labyrinth/ Julian Weber / Hau 2, Berlin Germany/ La Part Mortelle/ Brussels, Belgium
2011-2015/ FOOTNOTE DANCE COMPANY/ Wellington, New Zealand
Hullapolloi/ Kate McIntosh & Jo Randerson
We Have Been There/ Lisa Densem (Sacha Waltz & Guests)
(SEX)/ Ross McCormack
Body Fight Time/ Malia Johnson,
Colt/ Sarah Foster-Sproull
2008-2010/ The New Zealand School of Dance
Diploma in Dance Performance