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Andrea Peña is a Colombian-Canadian choreographer and cultural thinker based in Montréal, and the founder and artistic director of Andrea Peña & Artists (AP&A). Working at the intersection of choreography, design, and immersive systems, her practice merges movement, materiality, and technology to construct large-scale performative environments that challenge conventional notions of embodiment and collective experience.
Originally from Bogotá and shaped by both Latin American and Canadian cultural contexts, Peña approaches choreography as a spatial and conceptual practice. Her work investigates hybridity—between the organic and the constructed, the human and the machinic, the ritualistic and the contemporary—developing rigorous physical languages within sculptural and sonic architectures. Trained in industrial design, she brings a distinct structural sensibility to contemporary dance, positioning the body as both material and agent within evolving systems.
Peña’s creations have been presented internationally across Europe and the Americas, including the winner for the call for new choreographies at the Venice Biennale (2023). Through AP&A, she has toured extensively with major festivals and presenting partners, engaging audiences in Montréal, London, Paris, Germany, Scandinavia, and Latin America.
In 2026, Andrea Peña was named a laureate of the CHANEL Next Prize, an international award recognizing ten artists worldwide whose practices redefine contemporary culture. This distinction affirms her position as a leading voice in interdisciplinary performance and as a new-generation choreographer expanding the boundaries of dance as a critical and spatial art form.
Through AP&A, Peña continues to build an internationally touring body of work that bridges contemporary dance, design research, and speculative cultural inquiry, positioning Montréal as a hub for ambitious, forward-thinking creation.