Olana is a multi-disciplinary artist, educator, curator and producer based in Holyoke, MA. She holds an MFA in Experimental Choreography from University of California, Riverside and a BA from Hampshire College. She is a founding member and co-director of LOCULUS a dance and performance collective that creates performance in non-traditional spaces, publishes The Loculus Journal, and directs The Loculus Studio in Holyoke. She has had the privilege of studying and performing with artists such as Chris Aiken, Angie Hauser, Kathleen Hermesdorf, Luis Lara Malvacias, Paul Matteson, Jennifer Nugent, taisha paggett, Joel Smith, and Ni’Ja Whitson. Her choreography has been performed in New York, Philadelphia, Southern California, and throughout New England. Her photography has been featured in a number of zines and journals and has been exhibited at VSOP Projects in Greenport, NY. Olana has held faculty positions in the Dance Programs at Sarah Lawrence College and Springfield College, was a graduate teaching assistant at the University of California Riverside, and has been a guest artist at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School. She serves as Communicatiosn Coordinator for MASS MoCA’s Assets for Artists program, works as a freelance light designer and producer throughout Western Mass, and collaborates with Deborah Goffe as the Creative Producer for Liturgy|Order|Bridge. She currently teaches at Loculus Studios, The School for Contemporary Dance & Thought and is a lecturer in the dance program at Keene State College.