Program Books/PETRA LEIDNER
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PETRA LEIDNER

Costume Designer – common ground[s] Costume Maker – The Rite of Spring

Petra Leidner has been Costume Director at Wuppertaler Bühnen und Sinfonieorchester GmbH since 2011. She has also been Costume Director for Burgfestspiele Jagsthausen for more than six seasons.

Since 1992, Petra has been Costume Director at Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch and has worked on all premieres and revivals of the company’s productions, in close collaboration with Marion Cito. In recent years, she has supervised and been responsible for costume design and consultation for various Pina Bausch productions for the Pina Bausch Foundation. Petra opened her own costume studio in 2013.