Sophie Flannery Prune Vergères is a native bilingual Swiss (french/german) born in San Francisco. She received her professional dance training at the Hamburg Ballet School John Neumeier. She joined the Hamburg Ballet from 2010-2014, where she toured internationally and performed worldwide. From 2014-2016 she joined the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

Since 2017 Sophie worked both as freelance performer and ensemble guest-dancer. She has been a guest with companies such as Konzert Theater Bern, Oper Graz, Phylharmonie Luxembourg and has performed with independent groups such as Art of Spectra, Focus Dance, Steptext/now curious nature and collaborated with the visual artist Leiko Ikemura for the Kunstmuseum Basel and filmmaker Bowie Verschurren, Gitta Gsell, Magnus Langset.

Through the desire to work as a choreographer and project director, she co-founded the group Kollektiv 52°07 in 2018 and started to create her own independent projects. So far two two full-length dance productions and a narrative film premiered at the San Francisco dance film festival. She further developed smaller interdisciplinary projects during research residencies that premiered in forms of short pieces and short films. Her latest commission is shown at the newly opened Unesco world-heritage theater museum Markgräfliches Opernhaus in Bayreuth Germany.

Following the desire to further her education, starting in 2020 she studied at the Bern University for Arts in the master program Expanded Theater. With lectures and artist groups like Stefan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll, Rabi Mroué, Ivna Žic, Yves-Noël Genod, Gabriela Carrizo/Peeping Tom, Michelangelo Miccolis, among others. During that time she also gained her first experiences as an actress for film. She obtained her Master degree in 2023.

Over the years Sophie has danced in works or worked with choreographers and directors as Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Sharon Eyal, Bobbi Jene Smith, Saburo Teshigawara, Fabrice Mazliah, Edward Clug, Peter Svenzon, Vaslav Kunes, Itzik Galili, John Neumeier, Richard Sigal, Lillian Stillwell, Adonis Foniadakis, Helge Letonja, Pontus Lidberg among others.

Since August 2022 she is part of the dance ensemble at Theater Basel, currently under the artistic direction of Adolphe Binder and Tilman O’Donnell.