Sophia is a performer and dance/movement therapist born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Her passion for expressive arts emerged at an early age as she watched and sang broadway musicals on repeat, danced with her grandparents, and wrote and performed short stories for her family. She has extensive training in improvisation, physical comedy, acting, and dance, including ballet, contemporary, jazz, contact improvisation, West African, Hip-Hop, heels, and pole. In addition to receiving her MA in Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Dance/Movement Therapy at Lesley University, Sophia has certifications as a yoga teacher, a Dance for People of All Ages facilitator, and a Co-Active Therapeutic Theater Model facilitator, the first manualized model for therapeutic-theater making.

Sophia works as a “living sculpture” and improvisational performer at live events all throughout New England with the TEN31 company. She has danced in works by the Providence Ballet Theater, Bill T. Jones + Arnie Zane Co., Motion State Dance Festival, DAPpers Reperatory, and Dancify That!. In addition to live performances, she enjoys screen acting for TV shows, short and feature films, and commercials.

Sophia’s clinical work has involved dance/movement therapy and yoga facilitation with pediatric hospital patients and adolescent in-patient youth, as well as stabilization-focused work with partial hospital patients of all ages. She brings her somatic, embodied focus and attunement to every setting she is in.