Oleg Soulimenko (born 1960) is a Russian dancer, choreograph and teacher from Moscow. He studied movement for 6 years with L. Korostelina (Movement Theatre), O. Kishilev (Theatre of Improvisation) and G. Abramov (Studio of Experimental Dance, affiliated with A. Vasilev's School of Dramatic Arts). His work has been influenced by Russian Movement Theatre, Butoh (especially Min Tanaka's Body Weather Farm in Japan), contact improvisation and other fields of dance. Studies also with Natascha den Boeft (New Dance and Contact Improvisation) in Moscow and Amsterdam, with Kirstie Stimson (Contact Improvisation) in Italy and Vienna, Rasti Lester (Contact Improvisation) in Vienna, Anzu Furukawa (Butoh Dance) in Toscana, Ka Rustler (Body Mind Centering) in Toscana and Julyen Hamilton (Improvisation) in Amsterdam.

1988 - 1992 founder and leader of the youth studio "Dance and Movement", teaching movement and the art of performance

Also in 1988, organizer of the Jazz-Rock Show Group "Gleb Miller Kontora"

1990 founder of the International Laboratory "Saira Blance Theatre"

Since 1994, he gave workshops in "Body, Dance and Improvisation" in Russia, Ukraina, Austria and Germany

He performed in Russia, Ukraina, Mongolia, Japan and Europe (Amsterdam, Straßburg, Paris, Hamburg a.o.). His latest performances were at the festival Neuer Tanz - progress in work in Vienna, 1995 / 1996, at the Arkhangelsk Jazz Fest 1996 and in Hamburg at the Weekend with Russian Friends

Work with body, space and people in this space. Everybody is present with this momentary condition.

Feeling, taste, soul, rhythm, composition, materials and improvisation.

Oleg Soulimenko is a member of the SAIRA BLANCHE THEATRE. There is also a list of all his projects.

I met him in 1993 for the first time, but our contact deepened when we travelled to Arkhangelsk in fall 1996. I will always remember his improvisation in Vologda 1993: he entered the stage, sat down on a chair and smoked, while Heinz-Erich Gödecke was playing. This was the best what could happen to a cigarette!

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