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.