Andrea Peña & Artists BOGOTÁ Bogotá (Colombia) / Montreal (Canada)

Originating from Bogota, Colombia, and having honed her practice in the territory of Tiohti:áke, Montreal, Andrea Peña is a prolific Latinx artist who has built international renown as a designer, choreographer and director of the multidisciplinary company AP&A (Andréa Peña & Artists). With a background in design and fashion, Andrea is a definitively multifaceted visionary who works seamlessly across mediums. Rooted in extensive research and choreographic knowledge, she creates unique living universes that unify bodies and materials in performative, digital and sculptural environments.

Andrea’s artistic rigor has been recognized by numerous awards including the Ballet BC Choreographer Award 2024, whilst in 2023 she was the winner of the 1st international La Biennale di Venezia dance co-production. Complex, vulnerable and raw, her work has been commissioned by TanzKassel, National Arts Center, Phi Center, SAT and Ballet Edmonton. She has presented work at prestigious institutions and festivals across the world, including Musée d’Art Contemporain Montreal, Mattress Factory Museum Pittsburgh, Tanz Bremen, Tanzmesse, Theatre Freiburg, Tokyo Performing Arts Meeting, Attakkalari India Biennial, Milano Festival, Hong Kong International Choreography Festival, Festival Internacional de Danza de la Ciudad de México, Prisma Festival Panama, AADK Spain, and IONION Arts Center Greece to name but a few. 

Andrea Peña & Artists is recognised for the creation of critical, alternative and spatial universes that rupture our notions of a sensible humanity. Interested in the depth of human individuality that breaches from a personal disposition as a bi-cultural artist, Peña’s approach is known for its difficult choreography as a highly intricate, vulnerable and somatic raw physicality that engages in deep encounters between the physical body and a highly conceptual research approach. With a background in industrial design her work borrows from visual art practices and spatial qualities of creative making, questioning the body’s material relationship to space and time.