Petra Zanki is Croatian-American award-winning immigrant choreographer living in Brooklyn, New York. Petra graduated from MFA Choreography program at CODARTS University in Rotterdam in 2023, and is a current Brooklyn Arts Fund Grant Award 2024 recipient. She was nominated as the best upcoming choreographer on Zagreb Dance Platform, and granted multiple residencies across Europe among which two-year choreographic scholarship from ICK-Amsterdam/Emio Greco and Croatian HIPP-TSP. Her works have been shown across Europe, US, Canada, the UK, and Australia. In the US she presented her works at Estrogenius Festival NYC, PRELUDE Festival/ Segal Center Cuny, Movement Research/Judson Church, Coil13/PS122/Dixon place, On the Boards, SIDF,12 Ave Arts, Base, and at Velocity Dance Center. The texts about her works have been published in magazines Tanz, Performance Art Journal-MIT, 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.