Analida Galindo

Analida Galindo (Panama) is a contemporary dancer, choreographer, teacher and cultural advocate. She has been working towards developing the contemporary dance scene in Panama for about 20 years. She graduated from Boston College with an emphasis in Operations Management and earned the John B. Atkinson Award. She continued her dance studies at New World School of the Arts in Miami, Florida, and in parallel obtained an MBA from University of Miami. In 2000, co-founded Momentum dance company, staging six annual dance seasons in Panama and working with international choreographers Michael Foley, Antonietta Viccario, Pamela Pietro and Fernando Hurtado. Collaborating with different choreographers she has performed internationally in Cuba, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Korea.

In 2010, she founded the Enlaces Program, which seeks to provide opportunities to youth from at-risk communities through artistic training focused on dance, today under the umbrella of Fundación Espacio Creativo.
In 2012 she co-founded PRISMA, the international festival of Contemporary Dance of Panama. She is also the co-director of Fundación Espacio Creativo, created in 2014 as a platform to provide opportunities through dance, education and culture, and Steps Academy, a leading contemporary dance school in Panama.