Olivia Nermin Streater is a transdisciplinary dance artist, choreographer, and performer based in Basel. Trained in contemporary dance and ballet, her work blends expressive physicality with emotional intensity. After practicing law and working as a human rights researcher, Olivia returned to professional dance with a commitment to challenging ageism and exclusion in the field. She is the founder and director of Muvaffak Dance Theatre, named after her grandmother — a Turkish feminist and poet — and dedicated to radically embodied performance that centres marginalised voices. Her recent works include Late! (2023), Bodies Unbound (2025), and RATS (in development). Olivia’s choreographic process draws on improvisation, dance therapy modalities, and a search for visceral honesty in movement, rooted in a deep political consciousness and commitment to social justice. Her work is shaped by the language of the AuDHD body — attuned to intensity, fragmentation, rhythm, and refusal — reclaiming dance as a space for freedom, friction, and belonging.
olivia.streater@movementtherapych.com
