Born in Geneva his family is originally from Poschiavo (Graubünden-Switzerland). Olza moved to Basle in 1996. He has studied at the Scuola Teatro Dimitri (University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, Academy for Physical Theatre) in Verscio and at Mudra (multidisciplinary school of Maurice Béjart) in Brussels. After 30 years of professional activity, first as a dancer, actor, choreographer, then as a director, producer, artistic consultant and as a networker on an international level, he is now extending his professional standing with further education (Professional training in Solution-focused Coaching - Peter Szabo & Daniel Meier) www.weiterbildungsforum.ch Philippe Olza was working closely with renowned artists as well as people from different backgrounds and cultures all over the world. Since 1979 his experimental work on stage has shown a close affinity with the dramatic theatre tradition and the circus arts. Maurice Béjart engaged him to work with the Ballet of the 20th Century in Brussels. He then pursued a wide variety of artistic interests and played the leading role in the film "Nejvetsi z pierotu" directed by the Czech director Ivan Balada. 1998 saw Olza's production "Madame Monsieur", a dance-music project in which the architecture of the respective venue played a key role. First produced at the Swiss Institute in Rome, it was then adapted for various "European Cities of Culture" in the Year 2000. He received the prize "Förderbeitrag-Tanz" from the canton of Basel-Landschaft in 2003. He created "Contact" at the invitation of the Festival d’Avignon in 2004. This play was further developed into "VOILÀ !" at the Centre National de la Danse in Paris. With "VOILÀ !", he toured in Switzerland, Belgium, Germany and Japan in 2006, then in 2007, Olza was also touring with Compagnie Drift in Poland, Germany, Italy, Lithuania and Croatia in the production "unkaputtbar". 2007-2008 saw the co-production of "GDEO" with the Seoul Ballet Theatre. Rehearsals and performances took place both in South Korea and Switzerland. Also in 2007, he co-initiated "tanzfaktor interregio", a promotional project for young contemporary dancers/ choreographers in Switzerland, which is an on going project. 2010 he worked as the producer and coach for ". r a n d o m . .", a dance-juggling-electronic music production by Jonas Althaus.