Andrea Peña and Artists

BOGOTÁ

May 20th, 2026. 7:30PM
Spatz Theatre

Please choose the pricing that best suits your lifestyle!
General Seating – Adults/General $45.00; $35.00 Seniors; $20.00 Students / Arts Worker; $65.00 Dance Advocate ($20 Donation Receipt) ; Group Discounts Available

Run Time – 80 Minutes

Content Warning: Flashing lights, strobe, haze and loud noises. Nudity and one dancer screams “fuck” in anger in one part of the show.

BOGOTÁ is a work inspired by Bogotá, but is not about Bogotá per se. This new universe fashioned by Andrea Peña & Artists is steeped in the political, historic and cultural nuances of artistic director Andrea Peña’s Colombian heritage and manifested as a post-Andean Baroque, performative event. Featuring nine performers, the work is a contemplation on death and resurrection, moving beyond a traditional or linear definition of death, focusing instead on spiritual, corporal, societal and cultural transformations ever present in the landscape of Bogotá City (The Lady of the shining mountain). Exposed within a dry and brutalist design universe, bodies and materials become political landscapes who undergo voluntary processes of transformation and rupture. Through evolving stages of rebirth and resurrection, this is a tribute to the resistance of people’s resurfacing within the post-colonial era. With a theatrical vivacity that is typical of the baroque (gilt and grotesque), BOGOTÁ queeries death in a way that questions our post-human capacity, awareness and resilience. In this contemporary landscape, mutations of ancient mythology, magical realism, and baroque architecture mesh to create an alternative world where the queer body, Colombian political heritage and the post-industrial, post-colonial worlds come together, channeled through a raw, aesthetic and physical experience of design and brutality. Visceral, transgressive and magnetic BOGOTÁ is a chaos and resurrection you want to taste.

Andrea Peña & Artists is recognized for the creation of critical, alternative and spatial universes that rupture our notions of a sensible humanity. Interested in the depth of human individuality that breaches from a personal disposition as a bi-cultural artist, Peña’s approach is known for its difficult choreography as a highly intricate, vulnerable and somatic raw physicality that engages in deep encounters between the physical body and a highly conceptual research approach. With a background in industrial design her work borrows from visual art practices and spatial qualities of creative making, questioning the body as a material whom exists relationship to space and time.

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