Sonia Franken is a choreographer and dance educator. Artistically, she works at the intersection of choreography and visual theatre, exploring the contradictory relationship between humans and nature and staging the absurdities of everyday life. She choreographs under the label El Cuco Projekt (Cologne Dance Award 2022) and as a member of the performance collective Polar Publik. She is also co-director of ‘Tandem Tanz’ of the German Dance Association. She completed a bachelor's degree in dance education with a focus on improvisation and composition (CODARTS / Rotterdam) and a master's degree in dance studies (Centre for Contemporary Dance / Cologne).
As of: September 2025