Oliver Roth is a Switzerland born artist working mainly in the field of theater, dance and performing arts. Along his career he worked as a writer, editor, dramaturge, curator and performer. Since 2016 he’s creating his own longer performances, which are bringing social conventions into the theater space. With that he tries to test the boundaries of art as well as to exhibit the every day experiences in the art space. With his recent work ME TIME! he’s one of the finalists at the emerging dance and theater price PREMIO in Switzerland.
WORK
2017 ME TIME! A social convention, Semi-Final and Final, Premio - Förderpreis für Theater und Tanz
2016 WHILE YOU WERE DEAD - A social convention, far° festival des arts vivants Nyon / Nacht der 1000 Fragen Biel/Bienne / Tanzhaus Zürich
2016 COOPIANER, Exhibition & Performance, transform Bern
2016 SIBLINGS, Durational Performance, Friction, Gessnerallee Zürich for Keine Disziplin Festival
2016 BARTER 6, Performance, Hors Lits Bern
2015 ENDLICH KRIEG, Reading, Monolog Bern
COLLABORATIONS
2017 A Night Called Layla by Miriam Schulte, Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
2017 RADIKANT b/ by Martin Schick, out+about festival Bern
2016 CTRL-V (LP) by Cosima Grand, TLH Sierre, Tanzhaus Zürich, Dampfzentrale Bern, Schloss Bröllin
2016/2017 PARTYCIPARTY with Martin Schick and Wendelin Schmitt-Ott, Goethe Institut Weimar, Kultursymposium 2016 / Out&About Bern
2016 HNC agency for the new contemporary, Manifesta 11
2016 I JUST WANNA FUCKIN’ DANCE by Kiriaoks Hadjiioannou, Tanzhaus Zürich
2016-2017 NEUES STADTTHEATER BERN with General Performances, Atelier 262 Progr Berne
2016 GRRRRRL by Henrike Iglesias, ROXY Birsfelden
2015 ISLÄNDERSAGAS by vorschlag:hammer, Culturescapes / ROXY Birsfelden / Theater Chur / Tuchlaube Aarau / Südpol Luzern / Ringlockschuppen Mülheim
2015 NOW&THERE, festival centre for AUAWIRLEBEN with Cosima Grand & Jasmin Wiesli
2014-ongoing ONE Talks ...and the others shut up, with Martin Schick and General Performances, wildwuchs Festival / Journée photographiques de Bienne / Nacht der 1000 Fragen, Urgent Paradise Lausanne x LeTANDEM / Friction @Gessnerallee Zürich
2014-2016 CTRL-V (EP) by Cosima Grand, PREMIO Nachwuchspreis für Tanz und Theater Schweiz, Kondenz Festival Belgrade / ROXY Birsfelden / frisch eingetroffen, zeitraum exit, mannheim / Festival de la cité, Südpol Luzern, Dampfzentrale Bern, ADN Neuchâtel, Theater Phönix Steckborn, Théâtre Sévelin 36 Lausanne
2014 THE CHROMA KEY with Balz Isler, stromereien festival Zürich
WORKSHOPS / SPEECHES / RESIDENCIES
2017 PAF - Performing Arts Forum, The Sensing Salon: Experiments in Entangled Existence
2017 LABORATORY, Gessnerallee Zürich
2016 HOW DO YOU DO #1, Laboratory, AUAWIRLEBEN Festival Berne
2016 A TALK WITH... Marten Spangberg, Migrosmuseum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Zürich Moves!
2015 Residency & Showing with Cosima Grand at Tanzhaus Zürich
2015 «of ivory and flesh» by Marlene Monteiro Freitas, introduction to the piece at Festival Tanz In Bern, Dampfzentrale Bern
2014 Residency with Cosima Grand and Elodie Aubonnay at ROXY Birsfelden
2014 Residency & Showing with Cosima Grand, Elodie Aubonnay at Residenz Tanz Leuk
2013 Critics platform, two week workshop; Treibstoff Theatertage Basel
ENGAGEMENT
2016/2017 transform Bern
2015/2016 reso tanznetzwerk schweiz
2014-2015 ROXY Birsfelden
2014-2015 «KulturStattBern», Das Kulturblog des «Bund»
2013-2014 Dampfzentrale Bern
2013 Tanz In Bern, Dampfzentrale Bern
EDUCATION
Master of Arts in Newest Global History, University of Berne (2014)
Master of Arts in German Studies, University of Berne (2014)
Bachelor of Arts in History, University of Berne (2012)
Bachelor of Arts in German Language and Literature, University of Berne and Universitat de Valencia (2012)
Federal Vocational Baccalaureate (2007)
Practical Business Education (2006)