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ANDREA BONILLA OSPINA is an Afro-Colombian dancer, teacher, researcher, capoeirista, and choreographer. Her artistic work and research focus on dialogue with the landscape and interdisciplinary approaches, with an emphasis on issues such as race, ethnicity, class, and gender. She advises the Ministry of Culture on developing content for the Interculturality, Negros, Afros, Raizales y Palenqueros curriculum (2021). She is also involved in the Danza Vivaprogram, a member of the Departmental Dance Council of Valle del Cauca, and received a Ministry of Culture grant in 2008 for her research on Afro-contemporary dance, representation of a new thought, which she developed in Medellín alongside the Sankofa company. In 2010, she received an ICETEX Young Talents in Art scholarship to study contemporary dance trends in Argentina. In 2014, she was awarded the Colombia-Cuba Dance Internship grant by the Ministry of Culture. As an artistic director, her stage works include Oxo (Natalia Cárdenas, 2022), Reminiscencia (Jhojan Andrés Avendaño, 2022), Preludio de un sentimiento (Fabián Cárdenas, 2022), Historias Cruzadas (2022), and Onios(2017), as well as international performances such as Historias Convergentes (2016) and Ardid (2015). She is the founder of Afro al Parque Cali, a project initiated in 2014 to decentralize and make art visible by creating new urban spaces rooted in cultural practices and by bringing bodies into contact with African expressions. She holds a master's degree in Performing Arts with a specialization in contemporary dance and a master's in Intercultural Studies.