Petra Söör

Freelance Performer

Swedish/Italian Petra studied at London Contemporary Dance School (BA-Hons) before joining the postgraduate company EDge in 2006. She now works as a freelance performer in a varied range of contexts and also researches and develops her own work and practice.

As a freelance performer recent work includes Medea at the National Theatre with Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin, Solo Bach & Glenn and Solos Bach & Gould for Albert Quesada in Belgium, The Forest, (UK tour, Sydney Opera House Spring Dance festival), The Bounce, Little Universe and Stilled for Fevered Sleep and David Harradine, as well as work with Aletta Collins, Anna Williams, Robin Dingemans, Chisato Minamimura, Charlotte Spencer Projects, Vera Tussing and Tino Sehgal.

Her own choreographic work and projects includes Bodies of Rock, Mud and Water, Sundance Kid (Movement and Landscapes), Dance For One Person And A Room, Siggins Field, Intentions and Rooms (created for the postgraduate EDge company at The Place), Running Dance in collaboration with Thomas Goodwin (commissioned by Greenwich Dance) and The Big Dance Walk (part of Big Dance Festival 2010 and 2012), Gjendin Ridge and the recent project anthologyofanorgan with ‘anthologyofamess’, a stable of artist she was part of founding in 2012 together with Antonio de la Fe and Mariana Camiloti.Petra also works as a rehearsal assistant, most recently for Wagner & Ligeti by Albert Quesada in Belgium.