A B O U T
Olivia Rowe is a professional dancer, choreographer, educator, and stage manager. She holds a Masters of Arts in Dance with a concentration in Education from California State Long Beach and a Bachelor of Arts in Dance from Kennesaw State University.
As an educator and director, Olivia has fostered a passion for dance in students of all ages for countless studios across Metro-Atlanta. She is experienced in teaching classical ballet, contemporary, modern, pointe, lyrical, cross-training, and pas de deux. She incorporates pedagogical and kinesiological principles learned in her collegiate studies into all classes, encouraging safe and healthy practice.
As a choreographer, Olivia seeks to discover and reflect the beauty and variability of the human experience through expressionism & surrealism. Olivia is blessed to work daily with the dancers of the Druid Hills Dance Company, choreographing hundreds of works there since her beginning there in 2019. Most recently, her work has received the 2024 Artistic Excellence and Performance Award from the Kennesaw State University High School Dance Festival for her work Danu. Her pieces, Ayni (2024) and Kenopsia (2023), both won first place in their divisions at their respective competitions (KAR 2024, Applause Talent 2023). In 2022, she presented process with The Esthete Collective in a split bill performance alongside Fuerta Dance Company, entitled “WAKE.” The Collective presented two new works in 2021 including Nubivagant, performed alongside Profectus Dance in their production "The Seeds We Plant." In 2020, she was commissioned by musician Desmond Meyers to choreograph music video Real Man. That same year, she presented two new works in collaboration with The Esthete Collective; The first being aphotic|lucent at Excuse the Art presented by Fly on a Wall, and the second being ALPHA STATE, a dance film presented at FEMMEfest. She has also presented works in festivals such as Fall for Fall Dance Festival, 3 Contemporary Dance Project, and Palette Project. In 2018, her work, Matutine, was danced by Ballet Southeast in their inaugural mixed repertory showcase. Also in 2018, her senior capstone project, Dichotomic, was presented by the Kennesaw State Dance Co. in their annual Senior Spring showcase.
Olivia is a current company member with Fuerta Dance Company, and has been performing with the troupe since 2019. Additional professional performance endeavors include companies City Gate Dance Theater, Ballet Southeast, and Gotta Dance Contemporary (now Admix Project), where she has performed both classical and contemporary works.
In high school, Olivia trained at Atlanta Academy of Ballet as a professional trainee, as well as Balletmet Columbus and Nashville Ballet. She received her early dance education at Impact Dance of Atlanta. In college, she was privileged to study Gaga dance technique at the Batsheva Dance Company in Tel Aviv, Israel.
Olivia also works in stage management and theater production, and has been honored to work with companies such as the Vail Dance Festival, Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre, Bluebird Uncaged, Fly on a Wall, Staib Dance, and more. She received her dance production training at Kennesaw State under the guidance of David J. Tatu, and now works at the Kennesaw State Dance Theater as a stage manager and crew member.