Petra Zanki is a Croatian-American, award-winning choreographer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She earned her MFA in Choreography from CODARTS Rotterdam (2023) and is a recipient of NYFA (2025), FCA (2021 and 2025), DWR Fund (2025) and the BAC/Brooklyn Arts Fund (2024 and 2025). She holds residencies with Wade & Tisch/NYU (2025), Choreographer-in-Residence with NOosphereArts, Brooklyn (2025), MOtIVE (2025) and Green Space/Take Root (2026). Petra founded dance company Cie. Petra Zanki in 2023. Before relocating to New York City in January 2020, Petra was living and creating in Seattle. There, she received the BST Residency from the University of Washington/Dance, participated in the IMP Series at Velocity, and completed Base Residencies in 2017 and 2018. She also earned the James Ray Residency Award (2018–2019), alongside grants from 4Culture, smART Ventures, and the Bossak-Heilbron Foundation. Her work has been presented at notable venues in New York, including Estrogenius Festival, PRELUDE Festival, Movement Research/Judson Church, Dixon Place, Mark Morris, CPR, and DanceFest Main Stage; and in Seattle at On the Boards, SIDF, Base, and Velocity. Awarded as Best Choreographer at Zagreb Dance Platform of Young Choreographers she has received multiple European residencies, including a two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and support from the Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her work has been presented internationally across Europe, the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Critical writing on her work has appeared in Tanz, Performance Art Journal (MIT Press), Performance Research Journal, and Frakcija. Growing up in CroaTa during the war, Petra’s main interest remains the transformation of pain into landscapes of beauty for the benefit of humanity.