Oleg Offstep

Oleg Offstep is an artistic name of Oleg Stepanov, a versatile artist, excelling as a choreographer, film and music maker, and performing artist. He’s born in the Urals, Russia. After graduating from the Physics Department of the Ural University, Oleg devoted himself to dance and art-making. Since 2013, he has been residing first in Sweden and then in Germany. He danced at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch (Germany) for 7 years, Gothenburg Dance Company (Sweden) for 3 years, 2 years at Theater Basel (Switzerland) and for 5 years at Provincial Dances Theatre (Russia). Oleg’s work in film involved choreographing for director Tom Tykwer’s film «The Light». In 2024, Oleg’s short film «A moth on a bomb» won a prize at New York Tri-State International Short Film Festival, it also received an honorable mention for the best cinematography at Newfilmmakers New York Festival, and it was also officially selected for Tokyo, Seoul and Roma International Short Film Festivals. His short dance video, «Moverevermore», received the Jury Choice Award at the «EnRoute Dance Film Festival» (USA). Oleg is currently collaborating as a choreographer with film director Alla Kovgan on their next full-length dance film «Purple river». Oleg has received numerous awards. From the latter he was proclaimed by the German «Tanz» dance portal as «Dancer of the Year» in 2022 for his role in Richard Siegal’s and Anish Kapoor’s «Ectopia». He was also nominated for the Russian National Theatre Award, «Golden Mask» as «Best Male Dancer» for his role of Rudolf Nureyev in Natalia Kasparova’s and Leo Shulman’s «The Point of No Return» (2008) and as «Best Choreographer» for «All That I Can Be» (2016) and «Object in the Distance» (2017). Oleg secured the 3rd place in the «Gdansk Solo Dance Contest» (Poland) and the Online Dance Festival «Side by Side» (Germany) for his solo performance «NoBodY».