Haller is a tap dancer based in London. She has studied at Escola Luthier in Barcelona, Europe’s only full-time tap dance school, and at workshops under Jason Samuels Smith, Derick Grant and Andrew Nemr. These mentors taught her the dance style and introduced her to it’s African-American roots — the cultural foundation for all jazz music. She is sucessfully establishing herself in the jazz and improvised music scene and she became the first tap dancer ever named in Jazz Wise Magazine’s “Rising Jazz Artists : Who to look out for in 2020”
“Petra Haller is unique as an improvising tap dancer – a worthy successor to Will Gaines. ” — Oliver Windling, Vortex Jazz Club, Babel Label