Oliver Roth is a Switzerland born multidisciplinary artist working mainly in the field of performing and live arts, contemporary dance and theater. He worked as an editor, dramaturge, curator, performer, DJ and more. Since 2016 he’s creating his own longer performances, which are bringing social conventions into spaces of art. The performances are establishing an engaging live experience for the audiences and are treating shared common topics from super-personal viewpoints. With everyday performative actions built on openly created choreographies the unwritten laws of conventions are questioned fundamentally. Amongst others he collaborated with Martin Schick, Cosima Grand, Balz Isler, Miriam Schulte and groups like vorschlag:hammer and Henrike Iglesias. With his own work and with collaborations he was shown on institutions and festivals like Gessnerallee Zürich, Tanzhaus Zürich, far° festival Nyon, Goethe Institut Weimar, Auawirleben Festival Bern, Journée photographiques de Bienne, Manifesta 11, ROXY Birsfelden, Südpol Luzern, Treibstoff Theatertage Basel, Urgent Paradise Lausanne, Fête du Théâtre Genf and more. With his latest work ME TIME! he was one of the finalists at the emerging dance and theater price PREMIO in Switzerland.

WORK

2018 ME TIME! - only for the moment and the moment's gone, installation, THE CRIB II, Group show curated by Yves Scherer, Galerie 95 Biel/Bienne

2018 ME TIME! – A social convention, Südpol Luzern, Roxy Birsfelden, Zürich Tanzt

2017 ME TIME! – A social convention, Semi-Final and Final, Premio - Förderpreis für Theater und Tanz, Fête du Théâtre Geneva

2016 WHILE YOU WERE DEAD – A social convention, far° festival des arts vivants Nyon / Nacht der 1000 Fragen Biel/Bienne / Tanzhaus

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, Theater Oberhausen

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

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 /

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

2014-2016 CTRL-V (EP) by Cosima Grand, PREMIO Nachwuchspreis für Tanz und Theater Schweiz, Kondenz Festival Belgrade / ROXY

2014 THE CHROMA KEY with Balz Isler, stromereien festival Zürich

WORKSHOPS / SPEECHES / RESIDENCIES

2018 watch&talk, Theaterspektakel Zürich

2018 CAMPING, CN D Paris invited by Pro Helvetia

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

2017 Kunsthalle Zürich

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)