Va­len­ti­na Ávi­la Hurtado is a cur­rent BA Dance 3rd year stu­dent at the Höchschu­le für Mu­sik und Dar­stel­len­de Kunst in Frank­furt am Main (HfMDK), Ger­ma­ny. At an ear­ly age, she re­cei­ved her dance edu­ca­ti­on at En Avant Es­cue­la in Bo­go­ta, Co­lom­bia whe­re she lear­ned to de­ve­lop dif­fe­rent skills in dif­fe­rent life­styles, star­ting from clas­si­cal bal­let, con­tem­pora­ry, jazz, and mo­dern dance to La­tin, Co­lom­bi­an folk, and ur­ban dan­ces such as sal­sa, cum­bia, ma­pa­lé, cham­pe­ta, dan­ce­hall, afro and hip hop.

Du­ring her dance for­ma­ti­on in Co­lom­bia, she got cer­ti­fied by the Ame­ri­can Bal­let Thea­t­re in 2019 with a le­vel of 3A with ho­nors. She also par­ti­ci­pa­ted in events like the In­ter­na­tio­nal Mee­ting of Bal­let Schools in Ha­va­na, Cuba in 2018, in­ter­na­tio­nal dance con­tests like All Dance Co­lom­bia in 2019, and the Mia­mi In­ter­na­tio­nal Bal­let Com­pe­ti­ti­on in 2020. In 2021 she got the ID­AR­TES IV Bal­let En­coun­ter Scho­l­ar­ship in a group di­vi­si­on, for “Cir­cu­la­ti­on of Re­per­toire of Bal­let Schools” and in 2022 she par­ti­ci­pa­ted in dif­fe­rent pro­jec­ts like “Al Son del Bal­let” with Bal­let Clá­si­co de Co­lom­bia and “Pe­ce­ra” short film di­rec­ted by Da­nie­la R. Nie­to.

When she mo­ved to Ger­ma­ny and be­gan her stu­dies at the HfMDK, she had the op­por­tu­ni­ty to be part of dif­fe­rent pro­jec­ts. In 2023 she per­for­med with the com­pa­ny FIRE­DAN­CER in the Wirt­schafts­tag at the Jahr­hun­dert­hal­le and in the first half of 2024 she was part of the pro­ject “Zwölf Frag­men­te für Cel­lo und Tanz “Cel­lo­tän­ze” “com­po­sed by Lau­ra Ma­ria Bas­ti­an at the Kunst­Kul­tur­Kir­che on the Pen­te­cost fe­ast.