ABOUT OLGA SUAREZ-PAZ

Nuevo Tango Arts Founder and Co-Director, Olga Suarez-Paz is a dancer, choreographer with a background in tango, classical, modern dance and theater, who has been praised by the critics for the “high quality” of her dancing, “stunning vocal performance” (Mike Telin, Cleveland Classical), "beautiful" (Fox 5, Good Day NY) expression and "sensual tangos" (goFasano, Italy). She made her debut as a tango dancer with Andrea Misse’s Tangodanza, and partners Leonardo Suarez Paz since 2009.  

Along side Leonardo, Olga has been featured as a choreographer and principal dancer internationally in venues including CCK in Buenos Aires (Sala Argentina and Sala Ballena Azul), the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (2011, 2012, 2013, 2025), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, National Museum of Dance, the Bruce Museum, NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Arts, CalTech, USC's Koger Center, Conservatorio di Musica M. Benedetto and Palazzo Albrizzi in Venice, Italy as part of cultural events during the Venice Biennale of Art, Flipside Festival in UK and Fasanomusic Festival (Italy) among others.  

Olga has been featured as a tango dancer and choreographer in Savion Glover & Leonardo Suarez Paz: Tango, Tap & Fire, accompanied the Latin star Luis Miguel in Argentina, featured on Fox 5 Good Day New York, JAR foundation special Dear New York (CBS2, NBC4, FOX5, and ABC7).Olga's work on film includes the documentary "Circo de Arrabal" about Grammy-winning composer Carlos Franzetti filmed ub Buenos Aires and "A Still Life," music video for Michael Imperioli's band "Zopa," directed by Victoria Imperioli.

She directs the Nuevo Tango Ballet, an all female dance ensemble which combines traditional tango with elements of modern dance, ballet and dance theater in order to expand the possibilities the genre’s artistic language, while transmitting its essence  and expressing the musical complexity of Nuevo Tango. She has worked with ACE winning choreographer Laura Roatta on the Ballet's repertoire and studied choreography under Anabella Lenzu.  In addition to her tango work with partner Leonardo Suarez-Paz, her choreography credits include "El Nuevo Tango,'  Histoire du Tango, "Histoire du Soldat" by Igor Stravinsky, which premiered in April 2022 as part of "A Tale Through Time" program by the Greenwich Chamber Players with conductor David Gilbert and pieces for 'Symphonic Tango." She is currently developing a full length theatrical piece, "Her TANGO," which showcased excepts and is schedule to premiere in 2027.