Ana Prada
Ana Prada was born and raised in Colombia and has been an aerial dancer and yoga practitioner since 1998. She studied contemporary dance in New York City, where she started to explore aerial apparatus like dance trapeze and rope. She then moved to Montreal where she specialized in aerial silks and hoop.
Ana has worked with La Esquina Desplazada, Triknia dance company, Colombia, Cirque du Soleil, “El despertar de la Serpiente” for the Expo 2008 in Spain, the show ‘Ulalena (Maui, Hawaii) working as an acrobat, dancer, and aerial coach amongst many others. She also has developed her own solo work, presented in different festivals and venues.
She developed the Vayu Aerial Yoga system and teaches workshops and teacher training all around the world. She’s a certified yoga, GYROKINESIS® and GYROTONIC® instructor, and Pre-trainer and has applied all of this knowledge to the Aerial Dance technique creating a project called ‘The sustainable body project’.
She has shared her talents teaching at many different studios in Montreal, Costa Rica, Brazil and also at several international workshops and festivals like ADF in Boulder, Colorado, Les Rencontres de Danse Aérienne – France, Air to Floor Aerial Dance festival in Santa Barbara and workshops in places such as Hawaii, British Virgin Islands, Greece, Miami, Brazil, Costa Rica and Colombia. In 2017 Ana was delighted to receive the Roser Grant-Artist in Residence from the dance department at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
In her work, she is always interested in finding a deeper balance and a real organic connection: “aerial roots” to be grounded wherever she goes.
She now lives in Cabuya, Costa Rica where she continues her research Aerial Movement, practices Cranio sacral therapy and teaches intensive workshops and master classes.