Bio

Lorin Sookool (she/her/they/them) is a South Afrikan contemporary artist with a foundation in dance. She has worked with multiple choreographers and residency bodies, with international performances in Mozambique, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Her artistic practice follows a process-based approach that is intuitive in nature and emergent in design, searching for the relationship between personal and collective themes; thereby becoming a reflective, reflexive, subject-centred practice. Sookool often explores complex South Afrikan socio-political themes, with a focus on situations of racial, gendered, systemic and institutionalized violence. She is currently a Master of Arts candidate at the University of Cape Town, through a scholarship from the Institute for Creative Arts (Andrew Mellon Foundation). She is the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance recipient (2023), the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Choreography recipient (2021), a mother, devoted seeker and amateur astrologist who often gazes towards the planets in contemplation of their archetypal meaning, in relation to the state of things in this complex and multi-dimensional planet.