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Andrea Bonilla Ospina

Andrea Bonilla Ospina is an Afro-Colombian choreographer, Master in Performing Arts with an emphasis in Contemporary Dance, and holds a Master’s degree in Cultural Studies. Her career has been characterized by a strong commitment to reflective thinking and artistic creation, understanding the body as a territory of memory, resistance, and possibility. As a Black woman, her performance and pedagogical practice has always been linked to processes of recognition and dignification of racialized bodies, building her own languages through contemporary dance. Through her work, she questions hegemonic forms of representation, proposing alternative narratives through creation.

In the academic field, Andrea has been a lecturer and coordinator of the Dance program at the University of Valle, where she fosters training spaces for artists from critical, historical, and socially sensitive perspectives. Recently, she served as coordinator of the training line at the Ministry of Cultures, Arts, and Knowledge of Colombia, leading training processes with a territorial, community, and differential approach, working with educators and artists from diverse regions of the country.

As a performer and creator, she has developed works in constant dialogue with questions about identity, territory, and power. Her work moves between stage creation, pedagogical action, and critical thinking, always from a perspective grounded in social and political realities.

Last project in residence

Crossed Transmission: Resonances of Memory is a creative laboratory that brings together four Catalan dancers and four Colombian dancers in a shared space of research with choreographers Andrea Bonilla and Pere Seda. Drawing from their bodily archives and the memory inscribed in their bodies, the performers explore the geographies of movement, seeking bridges between identities, traditions, and languages. The encounter becomes a field of experimentation where dance transforms into a shared territory, capable of shifting boundaries and expanding the limits of the body. Through dialogues, frictions, and discoveries, the eight artists trace ways of dancing together, building a living cartography that celebrates diversity and the possibility of communion through gesture.

Crossed Transmission is a project that emerges from the dialogue between the International Dance Biennial of Cali and Fira Mediterrània, inviting Pere Seda and Andrea Bonilla to work with young people from the Impulse Program and the Incolballet company to engage the audience through the language of the body, valuing the essence and authenticity of each culture.

Residency archive Graner

  • 2025 · collaboration with Fira Mediterrània · Transmissió creuada (project with Pere Seda)
  • 2022 · Collaboration with Africa Moment · Buscando a Antonia