Olenka Toroshenko

Olenka Toroshenko is a Ukrainian Canadian living in the Adelaide Hills who recently became an Australian citizen. She’s a poet and performing artist whose mediums include spoken word poetry, song, dance, clown, storytelling and ritual performance art. Her recent works include: ‘Rekindled Systems’ tour alongside Yorta Yorta artist Allara, ‘i am root’ the multi award-winning ADL Fringe one-woman theatre show, ‘through the other side of chaos’ directed by Tobiah Booth-Remmers and presented by The Australian Dance Theatre, and her current consultation work on Erin Fowler’s award-winning ADL Fringe show KIN’. She released her debut album of spoken word poetry, ‘portals’ in April 2026.