I make work that invites people in.
Not to watch from the outside, but to sense, to feel, to shift alongside it. I devise original performances from the ground up—through body, image, sound, and multilingual text. My foundation is in theater: acting and movement are the crafts I’ve devoted most of my life to, and they remain the ground I return to in every process.

I collaborate across disciplines—movement, music, video, design—and across lived experience. What matters is the trust we build while making. My work doesn’t aim to speak for others, but to create space for something shared to emerge.

I care deeply about how the work is received—about the people who enter the space with me. I try to create conditions for connection: a shared emotional language, a quiet thread between us. I don’t want the audience to watch from afar. I want them to feel held, included, part of something tender and real. Not safe in the sanitized sense—but safe to feel, to respond, to remember.

I believe performance can be a kind of conversation—slow, physical, and porous. I’m interested in work that creates openings, not declarations. Work that lives inside communities, not above them. That invites risk, care, and honesty. That listens back.

Harvest Of Woman

-2025

A performance of clay, memory, and myth


Performed at
CoHo Theater after a 6-month residency. The piece unfolded between stage and installation, mixing archetype, movement, and raw material.

Built with:
Duma Du (design),
Jason Okamoto (sound/video), Kensey Renee (ceramics/installation)
Supported by RACC and
Fertile Ground Festival

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Point of return

- 2025

A body moves with something it cannot release. A weight. A thread. A memory.

A solo movement performance navigating the tension between desire and restraint—the longing to break free and the pull to return. A quiet reckoning with what we carry, what shapes us, and what we can’t let go of, even when we must.

*Developed through N.E.W. Expressive Works residency

Created and performed by Olga Kravtsova
With
Hank Peterson — a silent presence, holding the rope
Music by Hillbase (
Jason Okamoto), featuring Fata Morgana and Tamam Shud from The Summerton Man, plus original sound-based composition

Photo by Adrian Hutapea

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Far From Home

- 2024

A collaborative performance with Julia Rahmanzaei exploring migration, displacement, and identity. Blending movement, text, and physical imagery, the piece traces the emotional terrain of those caught between cultures—searching for home, struggling to belong, and confronting the silence of isolation.

A quiet, embodied reflection on what it means to live far from the place you once called home.

Created and performed by Olga Kravtsova and Julia Rahmanzaei
With
Hank Peterson
Music by
Jason Okamoto
Supported by
Fertile Ground Festival and PDX Playwrights

Poster design by Jaclynn Froncza

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Wailer

- 2024

A solo movement performance exploring the primal cry for freedom, inspired by the image of a bird trapped yet yearning to soar. Through raw, emotional physicality, the piece confronts death, release, and the fragile tension between surrender and survival.

A ritual of letting go — tender, visceral, and unresolved.

Created and performed by Olga Kravtsova
Music: Grass, Birds and Fogs by Mikhail Alperin, from Prayers and Meditations

Photo by Grace Seda

Old Man

- 2023–2024

A movement-based theatrical work exploring aging, memory, and the slow erosion of time. Inspired by my father’s experience as an immigrant, the piece centers on an elderly man confronting the quiet weight of his past.

Created in collaboration with Hank Logan and Jason Okamoto, Old Man blends minimal text and physical storytelling to invite audiences into the fragile, often overlooked space between growing old and feeling out of place.

Created by Olga Kravtsova
With
Jesimiel Jenkins, Hank Peterson, and Jason Okamoto

Photo by Jim Coleman

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Lorca Woman

- 2023

A theatrical exploration created as part of my MFA thesis at the University of Washington, Lorca Woman was inspired by Federico García Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba and focused on the theme of dependence.

The piece follows six women navigating societal and familial pressure—each shaped by expectations, silence, and inherited roles. Through physical performance, minimalist staging, and immersive light and sound, Lorca Woman reflects my investigation into identity, confinement, and atmosphere in performance.

Created and directed by Olga Kravtsova
MFA Thesis Project — University of Washington, School of Drama, 2023