Ana Sánchez-Colberg

Since 2016 Sánchez-Colberg moves fully into non-stage multidisciplinary/cross-arts works based on experimentation with generative compositional rules to create new forms of collaborative and participatory contemporary art.

Event/Horizons was an international collaborative project bringing together over sixty-nine performing arts artists across the globe to share practices and concerns in response to the effect of the global pandemic.

The project lasted for thirteen months, from October 2020 to December 2021 and concluded in an installation showcasing the work that was generated through the exchange.

In February 2020 she was artistic mentor for the project Grass Stains in Miami, Fl, an initiative of Pioneer Winter Collective.

J[us]t 5 REDUX an immersive installation that 'collected' previous events into a single locality was presented within the Athens International Festival in June 2018.

She has produced four commissioned pieces for Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico: Ojos Que No Ven (1992), which received the first prize in the Festival of Caribbean Choreographers and has been subsequently performed as part of Ballet Concierto's performances in New York's Lincoln Center and the Wuppertal Opera House,[2] Sartorii (1994),[3] Entre Huella y Pisada (1996), which received various awards from the Corporation for Music and Scenic Arts (NEA),[4] and Tejiendo Memorias (1998).

She produced a piece for the ballet of the Staatstheater Cottbus, es lasst sich nicht lesen.. with support from the British Council (Berlin).

She established Festival Videodanza de Puerto Rico, an initiative of Vision.AI.R-e.www.festivalvideodanzapr.com Since 2023, she is part of the Faculty of Dance at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where she mentors the Final Tuning Artistic Residency.

In 2005 she takes on the position of coordinator of the MA Performance Practices and Research at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), where she also leads the MPHil/Ph D degrees until 2009.

She was the program coordinator of the MA in Contemporary Circus Practices at University of the Arts, Stockholm (2020-2022), and now continues to teach as Visiting Lecturer.

Sánchez-Colberg holds a BA (Hons) Theatre Arts, Magna Cum Laude (with a double major in Drama Literature-20th Century ) from the University of Pennsylvania.

The research had a practical dimension in collaboration with the physical theatre company 'Intuitions', a devised-performance based on Euripide's Bacchae for which she did the movement direction as well as played the lead role of Dyonisus.

As movement director for Intuitions, she was involved in three major productions: Alice in Wonderland (1983) (based on the Andre Gregory Performing Garage text of the 1970s), Bacchae – in 84, and Buchner's Woyzzeck(1984).

She was also PhD supervisor to various theatre and performance research projects ranging from interdisciplinary approaches to puppetry and dance to re-examination of Laban's work in dialogue with the philosophy of Aristotle.