Bianca Leticia Medina

Bianca Leticia Medina (company member) is a Boricua-Mexicana New York City-based dance artist. She began her career based in Los Angeles, working as a full-time dancer, choreographer, and teaching artist touring globally with CONTRA-TIEMPO Activist Dance Theater, Viver Brasil Dance Company, and choreographer and collaborator Marina Magalhães. A proud Chicago native, Medina holds a BFA in dance from the University of Iowa, and has studied in-depth in Salvador, Bahia, and Brazil with interna­tionally acclaimed choreographer Vera Passos. Currently, Medina holds the position of Rehearsal Director and Co-Choreographer in Magalhães’s Creative Capital Award-winning project, Body as a Crossroads. She is honored to begin her journey as a company member with Urban Bush Women.