Sophie Vergères is a Swiss performer & choreographer, born in the USA. She received her professional dance training at the Hamburg Ballet School John Neumeier and joined the Hamburg Ballet (2010–2014), where she toured internationally and performed worldwide. From 2014 to 2016, she was part of the Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden.

From 2017 to 2021, she worked as a freelance artist and guest dancer, collaborating with companies such as Bühnen Bern, Oper Graz, and Philharmonie Luxembourg, as well as independent groups like Art of Spectra, Focus Dance, and Steptext.

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.

Over the years, Sophie has performed in works and/or collaborated with choreographers such as Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Sharon Eyal, Bobbi Jene Smith, Saburo Teshigawara, Fabrice Mazliah, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Halla Ólafsdóttir, Edward Clug, Peter Svenzon, Václav Kuneš, Itzik Galili, John Neumeier, Richard Siegal, Lillian Stillwell, Adonis Foniadakis, and Helge Letonja, as well as theater directors Vlatka Horvat, Tim Etchells, and Alia Luque.

Driven by the desire to work as a choreographer and project director, she co-founded Kollektiv 52°07 in 2018, co-creating the full-length dance piece Bird and the narrative film To Whom It May Concern, which premiered at the San Francisco Dance Film Festival in 2021.

Interdisciplinary collaboration plays a key role in her artistic practice. She has worked with visual artist Leiko Ikemura for the Kunstmuseum Basel and collaborated with filmmakers Bowie Verschurren and Gitta Gsell. She has an ongoing collaboration with musician and composer Philipp Rumsch and performer David Lagerqvist. Together, they created an abyss, an immersive piece that integrates 3D soundscapes, transforming space through movement and sound, which premiered in Leipzig in 2022.

In 2022, she initiated Dekarnation, a co-choreographic work under her artistic direction, which premiered in Bern, Switzerland. The piece explored the intersection of poetry and dance and it’s relationship to absence.

Through research residencies, she has developed smaller interdisciplinary projects that premiered as short pieces and films. Her latest commission is presented as a film 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 of the Arts in the master program Expanded Theater. During her studies, she worked with Stefan Kaegi/Rimini Protokoll, Rabih Mroué, Ivna Žic, Yves-Noël Genod, Gabriela Carrizo/Peeping Tom, and Michelangelo Miccolis. During this time, she also gained her first experiences as an actress for film. She obtained her Master’s degree in 2023.

In spring 2025, she will represent Basel in the Labor à Trois Dreiländerresidency in Strasbourg as a choreographer in collaboration with Theater ROXY Birsfelden.

She is currently based in Basel, Switzerland, where she continues to develop new choreographic works and interdisciplinary collaborations, and performs with the dance ensemble of the Theater Basel.