Andrea Peña is a Montreal based multidisciplinary artist that merges the universes of choreography and design. Based in Montreal, Quebec in the territory if Tiohti:áke, she merges the body and materiality in performative, digital and sculptural works to create living arts universes. AP's multifaceted practice explores the peripheries of social imaginaries, as futuring hybrid narratives that nurture the collision of different fields, disciplines and individuals through  collaborating artists.

Andrea Peña, originally born in Bogota, Colombia created AP&A after a career as performer with BalletBC and Les Ballets Jazz de Montreal, now recognized in Canada and internationally for her creations as critical, alternative and spatial encounters that break with our notions of a sensitive humanity. With a Masters in industrial design from Concordia University, AP’s work imagines cross-disciplinary approaches that challenge the choreographic practice as a source of collective experimentation and knowledge.  As a bi-cultural artist, AP is known for her complex layered systems that engage in deep encounters between the physical body and a highly conceptual research approach.

From Canada, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Germany, France, Mexico, Greece, Spain, India. USA and others, AP’s works are recognized for her inter-artistic rigor that manifests spatio-material experiences  that challenge hybrid practices. Andrea is recognized with numerous awards and commissionsis for her conceptual creations, most recently the Hong Kong International Choreography Award (2018) and the  Banff Center’s Clifford E. Lee Award (2019) given to an emerging Canadian artist in recognition for her highly rigorous creation; 6.58: Manifesto which was selected to open the internationally renowned Tanzmesse in Dusseldorf  (2022).  AP embarked on its newest largest creation BOGOTA (2023), winner of La Biennale di Venezia’s first foreign choreographic co-production.