Sonja Pregrad is a choreographer, performer and performance curator/organiser based in Croatia. Her work specializes on emancipating the figure of a dancer and questioning this subject-object chiasm of her performing body. From object to materiality, embodiment, touch, synaesthesia, sensuousness, receptivity and submission (or at least their oscillation game with assertion and imposing) as vehicles for performance. Choreography then for Sonja is a construction of the quality of attention, space of inquiry into bodies (animate and inanimate), materialities and performativities, as well as into their status within the relationships of dance as a medium with other fields of art and thought.
In 2023/2024 Sonja is working on a choreographic research and production On e.motional geometry of Plant in collaboration with Nika Pećarina, Lana Hosni, Ivana Bojanić, Viktoria Bubalo, Anna Javoran and Eva Priečkova. She is touring a solo Object of Dance, produced in 2022, and a group work DOWL produced in 2021, which won the Croatian Dancers Association Award for the Best Group Performance. These projects expand Sonja's interest in drag as an expanded strategy to address performance and dance, continue the methodology of the group/composite body choreography and unfold the idea of sensuousness as a vehicle for performance.
25.03.2024
