Dance Theatre: Afro-Latin Immersion | Creative Team Member
Bianca Medina is a 2nd generation Boricua-Mexicana Dance Artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She spent the last six years touring across the world as a movement and teaching artist with Los Angeles based companies CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theatre, Viver Brasil Dance Company, and with choreographer Marina Magalhães. She continues to teach responsive community-based dance workshops and collegiate residencies at universities and institutions across the nation. Her experience stems from her co-facilitation in the CONTRA-TIEMPO Futuro Summer Dance Intensive, where she helped build a curriculum rooted in decolonization and arts activism. Medina’s choreographic research lies within the intersection of Modern Release technique, the Afro-Latin Diaspora and their inherent relationship to the earth. While honoring the divine feminine and spiritual traditions of her ancestry, she explores how the body serves as a vessel for contemporary storytelling. As such, her practice breaks the dichotomy between past and future, framing tradición as an ever-evolving practice living infinitely within our bodies and spirits. She has danced on the stages of Jacob’s Pillow, The Joyce, Lincoln Center, The Hollywood Bowl, The Ford, Disneyland, The Getty, Dance Place, The Center Chorégraphique National France, and House of Culture Bulgaria. In depth study to date includes being in Salvador, Bahia, and Brasil with Mestra Vera Passos. Her latest choreographic collaborations include Sol of El Barrio with Artistic Director Maria Torres, and also Body As A Crossroads with Tatiana Zamir and Director Marina Magalhães, which is set to premier at Houston’s DiverseWorks April ’22. Medina holds a B.F.A. in Dance from the University of Iowa and is a proud native of Chicago.