photo: Iva Korencic

SONJA PREGRAD

Sonja Pregrad is a Croatian author and performer. She is currently living between Berlin and  Zagreb, making a new work ‘A dance in 2043/4’ with Willy Prager, teaching at the Zagreb Academy of Fine Arts, Department for Animated Film and New Media, SMASH program in Berlin and co-creating an international interactive dance publication/project TASK with TALA Dance Centre. 
She hasacquired an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship at Universität der Künste Berlin as well as a BA at ArtEZ in Arnhem. Her works and collaborations include ‘Transformability’ by Willy Prager, ‘Already made theater’ with Nina Kurtela and Igor Koruga, ‘Dishevelled’ with Johanna Chemnitz, solo works ‘Carnival tent rusts in the evening breeze’ and 'Oh my body, if only you were here with me', a.o. and were performed at Tanztage, EXplore Festival, San Francisco International Festival, etc. She worked with Isabelle Schad, Willi Dorner, Keren Levi, Frederic Gies, Bad Company, Marjana Krajac, Aleksandra Janeva, and others. Since 2007 she is a co-founder and organizer of Improspections, an initiative for affirmation of improvisation as a performing art in Zagreb.