Soraya Leila Emery is a Swiss-Moroccan choreographer and dancer based in Zurich.

She graduated in contemporary dance from CFPArts Geneva in 2014 and from SEAD Salzburg in 2017, and obtained her Master's in choreography from ZHdK Zurich in June 2024.

She works around the theme of female pleasure, seeking to define what pleasure is and to translate it into a choreographic score to redefine the narrative around female sexuality, bodily autonomy, and empowerment. She explores pleasure from a feminist perspective, and her research questions the preservation and transmission of cultural identity as well as the representation of the Arab female body.

In 2023/2024, she was an associated artist with TanzPlan Ost and created the piece TURN ON.

In 2025, with her piece TURN ON she was part of the Sélection Suisse in Avignon (FR) at the CDCN Les Hivernales.

In 2025/2026, she is an associated artist at Tanzhaus Zurich where she creates the solo Coming Soon and regularly shares her mediation format the Pleasure Practices.

In 2026, Soraya Leila will be present her work at the Salon d'Artiste during the Swiss Dance Days on February 13th, 2026 at Tanzhaus Bern (CH) and she is part of the Aerowaves Twenty 26 Artist with TURN ON, which will be presented May 6th to 9th, 2026 at O Espaço do Tempo in Guimarães (PT).