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Andrea Bonilla

Afro-Colombian dancer, teacher, researcher, capoeirista and choreographer, who focuses her creation and artistic research in dialogue with the territory and interdisciplinary stakes, always transversal to questions about race, ethnicity, class and gender among others. Advisor to the Ministry of Culture in the creation of content for the Diploma in Interculturality, Blacks, Afros, Raizales and Palenqueros, 2021, also trainer of the Dansa Viva program, member of the Departmental council of Dance of Valle del Cauca, winner of the ministry’s scholarship of culture in 2008 with his research “Afro-contemporary dance, representation of a new thought” which was carried out in the city of Medellin together with the company Sankofa. ICETEX scholarship, Young Talents of Art Scholarship, 2010, to develop studies on contemporary trends in Dance. (Argentina). In 2014 she won the internship of the Ministry of Culture, Colombia – Cuba for Dance. Creator of the Afro project in Parque Cali that was born in 2014 looking for decentralization, visibility of art, providing the creation of new city spaces from cultural practices and the approach from the body to the bodily expressions of the African matrix. Teacher in performing arts with specialization in Contemporary Dance. Master in Intercultural Studies.

 

Residency project

Buscando a Antonia is the search to know my grandmother, of whom I know very basic things: she liked to play Parcheesi, she was loving, spoke softly but was determined, people in the neighborhood loved her very much, and she was from Chocó (a department located on the northwestern coast of Colombia with a predominantly black population). She liked to sit in her rocking chair and listen to music.”

Residency archive Graner

  • 2022 · Collaboration with Africa Moment · Buscando a Antonia