Sonja Pregrad (1980) is a dance and intermedial author, performer and teacher and holds an MA in Solo/Dance/Authorship from the Universität der Künste in Berlin. Her work focuses on the interdependency of media, reappropriation of performative formats, the (non)materiality of dance and the choreography of relationships. In her work, movement is always conceived as the contextualized and relational gesture. During the last 15 years, she has authored numerous performance pieces and collaborations presented in Croatia and abroad. She won the Croatian Association of Drama Artists Award in 2018, as well as the Croatian Association of Dance Artists
Award for directing the Improspections festival and the collective performance Glacier, and she was also awarded a special recognition at the 26 th Slavonian Biennale for the exhibition/performance Carnival tent rusts in the Evening Breeze. She teaches at the Department of Animation and New Media of the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb and runs the arts organization Fourhanded.