Bio

Lorin Sookool (she/her/they/them) is a South Afrikan contemporary artist with a foundation in dance. Her professional trajectory began at The Playhouse Company (Durban, KwaZulu-Natal) and The Forgotten Angle Theatre Collaborative (Mpumalanga). She has worked with multiple choreographers and residency bodies, with international performances in Mozambique, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, Canada 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. Her first publication, Dala What You Must: A Manifesto, will form part of Queer Dance vol II (University of Michigan), to be published early 2026. She is the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Dance recipient (2023), the Pina Bausch Fellowship for Choreography recipient (2021), a mother, seeker and amateur astrologist often gazing towards the planets in contemplation of their archetypal meaning, in relation to this complex and multi-dimensional planet.