Sandra Portal-Andreu is a Miami-based interdisciplinary artist and choreographer of Colombian and Cuban heritage. Her work merges dance, theatre, and film to explore identity, motherhood, nature, and memory through site-specific, community-engaged performance.

Supported by organizations such as the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Live Arts Miami, NALAC, and Miami Light Project, Sandra has collaborated with Infinity Machine, Sarasota Contemporary Dance, Sol and The Tribu, PBS’ Filmmaker Project, Zoetic Stage, and the Miami-Dade Public Library System. Her work has been presented at Movement Research at Judson Church (NYC), Dance on Camera (NYC), The Deering Estate, and the Cucalorus Film Festival (NC). She is a recipient of the Miami Individual Artists Grant (2023–25), a 2022 Telly Award, and the 2021 Dance Miami Choreographer’s Grant. Sandra is a member of Teo Castellanos D-PROJECTS.

Sandra holds degrees from Florida State University (BFA) and Barry University (MS). She is an MFA Candidate at Point Park University currently researching Latinx Theatre performance and practice. She trained with Thomas Richards at the Jerzy Grotowski Workcentre in Italy and is certified in GYROTONIC®/GYROKINESIS®. Her performance work spans stage and film, including The Last Rafter by Oscar Ernesto Ortega and Carlos Betancourt.

An educator, mother and arts cultivator, Sandra teaches at the New World School of the Arts and has worked with CityTheatre Miami, NOVA Southeastern University, ProjectArt Miami, and Miami City Ballet School. She also manages her small business, Tappas, which offers patented, sustainable home goods. Her work continues to celebrate creativity, collaboration, and community.