24/05/2023
We are excited to have the wonderful Petra Haller as a featured performer for tomorrow's KinaeSonic and Perkalator jam session.
Come along to see and hear Petra, and a while host of other exciting improvisers.
Book here
https://www.kinaesonic.com/events
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About Petra
http://www.petrahaller.net/
Petra is an independent dance artist and tap dancer based in London. She is now also widely known for her improvisational and interdisciplinary performance work, and has also collected some experience as an experimental film maker.
She often collaborates with visual and digital artists and continuously performs in the UK and Europe. Petra has been the first tap dancer named in Jazzwise Magazine’s “Rising Jazz Artists: Who to look out for in 2020.
Petra is currently the resident dancer at Résonances Performances, an interdisciplinary collaboration of improvised music, poetry, digital art and live painting led by Aurelie Freoua and Ley Loosh. The group regularly performs at the Vortex Jazz Club, has had the honor of being part of Jazz Connective in 2020 and the London Jazz Festivals of 2019 and 2021.
As a tap dancer Petra performs regularly in a tap and piano duo, with her long time collaborator Meg Morley, and in a trio with Paul Jolly on bass Clarinet and Charlotte Keeffe on trumpet, as well as tap dancing in Nikki Franklin’s project “Ecstasies” with Pete Rosser on accordion, Nikki Franklin on vocals and poetry by Adam Lowe.
In 20212022 Petra started hosting and producing her podcast “TO BE AN ARTIST” It is curated to delve into the stories and lives of artists, including dancers, musicians, painters, photographers, actors, multimedia performers and many more.
Petra passionately loves improvisation and experimentation, both in contemporary dance and tap dance, and is looking forward to bringing many new, inspiring and challenging projects into existence in the future.
