Blythe Olson
Blythe Olson is a musician and performer from Portland, OR. A classical piano player since age 7, she also discovered circus arts at Portland’s Do Jump! in 1993, as a founding member of their youth company, the Zig Zags. Blythe went on to study a wide range of performing arts throughout high school and college, including musical theater, voice, experimental performance art, Stanislavsky and Meisner dramatic technique,Indian classical dance, mardala (Indian drum), ballet, jazz,modern and African dance. Blythe has studied acting technique at the Franco-Americain Cinema-Theatre in Paris, as well as classical Indian arts at the Darpana Academy of PerformingArts (Gujarat, India). She is a graduate of The Circus Project’s 2010 Intensive Training Troupe, specializing in aerial tissu. Blythe graduated from the Evergreen State College in 2009 with a concentration in Performing Arts / Anthropology.
Blythe’s passion for teaching rivals her love of performing. She has been a teacher for over eight years, gravitating particularly to children from underserved communities and with emotional challenges. Blythe has led visual art classes in Guatemala, special education music classes in Norway, and theatre classes in Washington. She has worked closely with children with Asperger’s Syndrome and other high-functioning forms of autism. Blythe spent several years as the Arts & Culture Supervisor for the Blazers, Meyer and Regence Boys & Girls Clubs in Portland, and has also worked as an instructional assistant within a behavioral classroom in the David Douglas School District. She is currently based in Metolius and in Warm Springs, Oregon.
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