Petra Zanki is a Croatian-American, award-winning choreographer and immigrant artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She holds an MFA in Choreography from CODARTS University in Rotterdam (2023) and is a 2025 recipient of grants from NYFA, FCA, and the BAC/Brooklyn Arts Fund (2024 and 2025). Currently, she serves as a 2025 Artist-in-Residence with Wade & Tisch/NYU, Choreographer-in-Residence with NOosphereArts in Brooklyn, and holds a MOtIVE Residency. Zanki was nominated as best upcoming choreographer at Zagreb Dance Platform and has received multiple European residencies, including a two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and the Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her work has been presented internationally across Europe, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. NYC venues include Estrogenius Festival NYC, PRELUDE Festival/ Segal Center CUNY, Movement Research/Judson Church, Dixon Place, Mark Morris Dance Center, CPR, DanceFest Main Stage, Green Space, and in Seattle On the Boards, SIDF, Base, and Velocity Dance Center. Critical writing about her work has appeared in Tanz, Performance Art Journal (MIT Press), Performance Research Journal, The Bomb, and Frakcija. Growing up in Croatia during the war, Petra’s main interest remains the transformation of pain into landscapes of beauty for the benefit of humanity.