Andrea Peña

Originally from Colombia, Andrea Peña is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative practice transverses the fields of art installation, choreography and design. Her works are focused on the creation of critical, alternative, performative and spatial universes that question the individual within society. Peña’s choreographic language is characterized by its vulnerability, complexity and rich physicality, which extends beyond mere movement, through a conceptual research approach.

Post a professional career as a dancer with BalletBC and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, Peña founded Andrea Peña & Artists in 2014. The company has been recognized with numerous awards and commissions, for their conceptual, visceral and highly rigorous creations, recently including the 2018 Hong Kong International Choreography award and the 2018 Banff Arts Center's Clifford E. Lee Canadian Choreography Award.