Oleg Stepanov (born 1983) is a dancer, artist, and choreographer from the Urals (an industrial region in the east of Russia). He studied for five years at the Ural State University before going on to work in a steel plant. Aged 23 he began taking dance classes and workshops in classical and contemporary dance and in 2009 joined the Provincial Dancers Theater in Ekaterinburg where he worked with Tatiana Baganova and assisted her in creating ‘Rite of Spring’ at the Bolshoi Theatre. In 2013 Stepanov joined Gothenburg Opera Danskompani in Sweden where he worked with artists such as Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Alan Lucien Oyen, Saburo Teshigawara, Adolphe Binder, Uri Ivgi & Johan Greben, Constanza Macras, Anton Lacky, Hiroaki Umeda.
Since 2016 Oleg has been a permanent member of Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and has actively engaged in productions by Pina Bausch, whilst simultaneously creating his own stage and video productions in collaboration with other artists, in addition producing his own music.