Ana trained in classical ballet in her native Puerto Rico before turning to contemporary dance. Under the tutelage of Hellmut Gottschild (assistant to Mary Wigman until 1969) she trained in Wigman technique. During this time she was a member of the Terry Beck Troupe, a Philadelphia based dance company, as well as movement director for Intuitons, a physical theatre company. During this time, Sanchez-Colberg began to produce work and gained immediate critical attention. She was a finalist in the prestigious ACDFA Festival , performing the duet Lullabyes at the Kennedy Centre in Washington, DC. The Washington Post described the work as "the gem of the festival...demonstrating a creative spark of a higher order".

In 1986 under the auspices of a fellowship from the Institute of Culture of Puerto Rico she relocates to England to pursue further dance training. During this time she worked with Isa Partsch-Bergson, former member of Ballets Jooss, on the embodiment of Jooss technique. She completed a Ph D at the Laban Centre London in 1992.

Sanchez-Colberg established Theatre enCorps in 1989. Since then, and over thirty years of non-stop activity, she has produced dance and performance work in over 40 cities, with a particular focus on collaborative practices including award winning commissioned works for Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico (PR), Ballets des Staattheater Cottbus (DE), Andanza (PR), Foreign Bodies (UK), and Compania Danza 21 (CoDa21,PR). She has been a regular teacher in many important dance schools and festivals including Tanzwochen/Impulstanz Wien, International Festival of Theatre in Bogota Colombia, Festival Barranquilla Nueva Danza, Helsinki Theatre Academy, and Jacksonville University MFA Choreography at White Oaks Project.

She was course leader of the BA (Hons) Dance Theatre at LABAN (1993-1998) and course leader of the MA Dance Theatre at Laban (2002-2005). She coordinated the MA Performance Practices and Research degree at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London from 2005-2008 and was course leader of the Ph D degrees from 2006-2008. In 2009 she relocated to Athens Greece where she now has a base. She was Professor of Choreography and Composition at the University of Dance and Circus, Stockholm 2005-2013, where she still contributes to the MA Contemporary Circus Practices. She is also a visiting professor at the Estonia Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, the alma mater of composer Arvo Pärt.

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Get to know Ana's full profile of work in choreography, education and advocacy at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana_S%C3%A1nchez-Colberg

Demy Papathanasiou has emerged as one of Greece’s strongest advocates for dance diversity and inclusivity. She has been a member of Onassis Foundation Cultural Centre I-Dance since 2013. As a member of I-dance she has participated in the International Dance Festival "Unlimited Access" held in Athens in 2015 as well as workshops with Candoco Dance Company, Spinn Dance Company, Stopgap Dance Company. She received a scholarship from Axis Dance Company and the Onassis Foundation to complete a certification for teaching mixed ability dance in Summer 2017. Demy has made dance history in Greece as the first individual with diverse abilities to follow a program of dance within the university sector. She completed a minor concentration in Contemporary Dance Practices (Deree-The American College of Greece) in 2018. She has presenter her first major choreographic work Dançor as part of Ourfestival4 in August 2018. Most recently The Journey was presented at Kyma Festival 2019 and Ourfestival5 September 2019 in Athens. She has contributed to the project Vimatodotis with the piece Leave at Kinitiras Studio in May 2019. She has collaborated with choreographer Vicky Spanovangelis of Nomads & Urban Dwellers as a performer for the piece The Tracing House presented at the Benaki Out/opias Exhobition and recently with Antigone Gyra’s Flaskback at Kinitiras Studio (May, October 2019).