Mayte Olmedilla, researcher, artist and transdisciplinary creator, works in performative proposals in which she addresses various political, self-referential and aesthetic issues. Halfway between a violist, a buffoon, a creator and a dissident, Mayte Olmedilla flees from categorization and seeks a constant artistic resurrection, where she tends to move forward and backward at the same time, walking a fine line between the recognizable and the unheard of.
With a degree in viola from the Conservatorio Superior de Sevilla, she completed postgraduate studies at the Universität Mozarteum in Salzburg and at the Privatuniversität in Vienna. He has studied acting at the Real Escuela Superior de Interpretación de Madrid (RESAD), and has specialized in the languages of clown and buffoon with the Argentinean masters Gabriel Chamé and Cris Martí, and in Spain with Leo Bassi. She has done research seminars as a performance musician with Odin Teatret, and has done several physical-theatrical trainings with the master Guillermo Angelelli in Buenos Aires.
Since 2010 she is creator, producer and distributor of various stage proposals, with which she has received among other awards, the National Max Award for Performing Arts in Spain and has performed more than 800 performances in countries such as Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, China or Argentina. During the year 2023, he is taking a Master’s degree in Visual Culture and Performing Arts Practice at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. She has collaborated with the association ARTEA in the I Jornada de Investigación en Artes Performáticas developed in the Faculty of Fine Arts of Cuenca in June 2023 with the performative paper “Creación Escénica en Crisis. Inventory of transdisciplinary gestures for resistance”.
In 2023 she obtains the only national Fulbright Scholarship granted by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain for the extension of artistic studies in the USA, in the specialty of Performing Arts. This recognition has allowed her to develop an artistic residency and research project at The Center for the Performing and Cinematic Arts (CPCA) and Boyer College of Temple University, Philadelphia. In this context, he won the 2024 Temple University Best Art Project Award with the installation “A house is a square with an equilateral triangle on top” and the T.A Award scholarship to pursue doctoral studies at Boyer College, Philadelphia until 2029.
