About Sonsherée Giles

Sonsherée Giles is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and costume designer.

Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area to attend Mills College and received her MFA in performance and choreography.

Sonsherée enjoys making dances based on observations of animals, landscapes, art history, and daily life experiences.

Currently, she is co-creating an immersive evening of contemporary dance with Sebastian Grubb, Fabric Animal, premiering in San Francisco at CounterPulse in June 2019. She is thrilled to bring this dance to life.

She is honored to be dancing in projects with AmyLewis/Push Up Something Hidden, Flyaway Productions, Megan Lowe Dances, and Nancy Karp + Dancers.

This Sweet Nothing was formed by Sonsherée as a container for her dance art and has been generously supported by Zellerbach Family Foundation, CLOROX Company Foundation, CA$H grant, and East Bay Fund for Individual Artists. In 2012, she directed and produced her first evening length dance theatre piece ‘Was It A Dream I Loved’.

From 2005-2015 she was a performer, teacher, and Associate Director with AXIS Dance Company. She has taught contemporary dance in public school systems, institutions, dance festivals and universities. Sonsherée has shared her choreography and performed for audiences throughout the world including the United States, Germany, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Russia, Scotland, Canada and Japan.

Sonsherée has received an Isadora Duncan Award for ensemble performance of ‘To Color Me Different’, choreographed by Alex Ketley. In 2010 she was honored to receive a Homer Avila Award for Excellence in the field of integrated dance.

She has also been a guest performing-artist, with Rodney Bell, on Fox’s So You Think You Can Dance? in 2011.