COMPANY MEMBER

Bianca Leticia Medina is a Boricua-Mexicana NYC-based Dance Artist. She began her career based in Los Angeles from 2015-2020 working as a full-time dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist touring globally with CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Viver Brasil Dance Company, and choreographer/collaborator Marina Magalhães. She also held Associate Production Director and Dance Captain for Viver Brasil, Social Media Director for CONTRA-TIEMPO, and was a founding member of Magalhães’s Dancing Diaspora Collective.

Medina’s choreographic research lies within the intersection of Modern Release technique and the Afro-Latin Diaspora, reifying their inherent relationship to the earth. As a seasoned teaching artist, she leads responsive community-based dance workshops at universities and institutions across the nation with the intention of
co-creating spaces for spirit-filled embodiment and liberation. A proud Chicago native, Medina holds a B.F.A in Dance from the University of Iowa, and has studied in-depth in Salvador, Bahia, and Brasil with internationally acclaimed choreographer, Vera Passos. She has performed on stages like The Joyce, Jacob’s Pillow, Lincoln Center, Hollywood Bowl, The Ford, Disneyland, The Getty, Center Chorégraphique National Montpellier, and House of Culture Bulgaria. Currently, Medina holds a Rehearsal Director & Co-Choreographer position in Magalhães’s Creative Capital Award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads, and is honored to begin her journey as a Company Member with critically acclaimed legacy, Urban Bush Women.