Olga Zitluhina (Latvia) is the artistic director of the Olga Ziluhina Dance Company founded in 1996. The Company has 8 dancers, each with a different dance background. Most of the dancers are now also students at the Modern Dance Department at Latvian Academy of Culture. The Company has performed 6 projects by Olga Zitluhina. The very first production "Herring's Vocation" had its premiere at the Modern Dance Festival in Kaunas, Lithuania. The productions have been performed at several international modern dance festivals - Evolution in Tallinn, Estonia, Baltic University of Dance in Vilnius, Lithuania, New Baltic Dance in Gdansk, Poland, as well as at the festivals of modern dance in Kaunas, Lithuania and Vitebsk, Bielorussia.

In 1998 the Company was invited to perform Olga Zitluhina's choreography "Spitting Whistling in the Ceiling" at the dance theatre workshop East of Eden in New York City, UA. All the choreographies have also been performed at the Daile Theatre in Riga. Recently the dancers of the Company have been involved in two big productions at Latvian National Opera and Daile Theatre and at the Latvian National Opera. On September 1, 1999 the Department of Modern Dance at the Latvian Academy of Culture was opened by personal initiative of Olga Zitluhina. For the first time in Latvia, it offers the possibility to complete a full 4-year program for professional education in modern dance. Olga Zitluhina is the headmaster and modern dance teacher at the Department.

Olga Zitluhina is the name which during last years in Latvia doesn’t demand any further comments. Of course, the broader visibility comes through work in state theaters, though creating first contemporary dance performance at the Latvian National opera („Aplam”, 2010), appearance in the panels of TV shows (Eurovision, Dancing with the Stars). However the most important part of Olga’s work has always been her dance company, where, as she laughs herself, she creates one piece during all the years since its founding in 1996. About what? About time and feelings, and thoughts we live in. Olga’s creative ideas arrive suddenly and immediately and for real. And the spectators’ luck is that she doesn’t think long before starting to fulfill the idea. This is why Olga is always contemporary, because she always catches time and moment and tells her stories to the audience while the nerves are still warm.

Short bio has four numbers –
Dancing – 45, teaching – 33, choreographing – 33, organizing – 12
Not dances, not students, not pieces, not events, but years
Liking is the drive –
Dancing and dancing, from folk to hop, from ballet to contemporary, dancing
Getting out and getting there – the beautiful dance out of somebody when eye to eye
Eating and swimming, walking long, long, extending mornings long, long
Snow and movies, people
Not liking is the case –
Lie and flatter and broken small household things
Of course, there is a retirement plan, a budgety one, in case budget is there
Dancing and painting, music and Italian, Chinese and tailoring, and knitting, and long, long routes.