Sofia Nappi
international choreographer and dancer from Italy, graduated from the Alvin Ailey  American Dance Theater (New York) to then deepen her studies with Hofesh Shechter and in Tel Aviv, where she is currently a member of the Gaga teacher training program, learning Ohad Naharin’s movement language. Interpreter of works signed by internationally renowned artists including Sita Ostheimer, Jon Ole Olstad, Alvin Ailey, Brice Mousset, Alessio Silvestrin, Sidra Bell, Netta Yerushalmy, Juel D. Lane, Clifton Brown, Earl Mosley, Robert Moses.

Sofia is the artistic director and co-founder of her project KOMOCO, generously supported by the historic Ass. Sosta Palmizi. Their very first creation won the 3rd prize at the Netherlands Choreography Competition 2018.

For the year 2020 Sofia was commissioned 6 world premieres, including a new creation in January 2020 for Nimbus Dance Company premiering at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York; she was then selected as a young resident choreographer for Kitchen Residenza Creativa in collaboration with DNA Dance Company in Bologna.

Sofia held professional workshops as guest teaching choreographer in New York at Gibney Dance, Nimbus Dance Works and The Bridge For Dance Studios; in Italy at  Opus Ballet, the Florence Dance Center , Dance Art Studios, ASD Centro Studi Danza Academy and New Master Ballet (Sestri Levante); at Studio Naim in Tel Aviv; at EBB Dance Company in Madrid.

In 2021 Sofia’s work “Wabi-Sabi” has won KommTanz 2021 for the development of the work at Abbondanza Bertoni Company and it will be widely presented in various venues and Festivals in Italy, and abroad during the SummerFall Season. 

Her latest duet work “Dodi”, already Introdans Partner Award winner at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021, was also appointed 1st Prize, Critics’ Award and Production Award by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Artistic Director Marco Goecke of Staatstheater Hannover at the prestigious 35. International  Choreography Competition Hannover 2021.

Class info
Classes are open to professional dancers and movers from different backgrounds. KCMasterclass aims to offer a sense the whole in a physical and sensorial way through the exploration and therefore the discovery of new possibilities with our bodies. In KOMOCO research, this practice takes the name of Kreaturistic Character (KC) as we connect to the creature that we are – that we just forgot about – which consequently brings more awareness to our unique artistic individuality to be expressed in endless ways through a series of games and guided improvisational tasks.
The class ends with the sharing and learning of sections from KC choreographic repertoire; excerpts of the work “Wabi-Sabi”, which has been and will be widely be presented in Italy, Spain, Albania, Germany and from “Dodi”, already Introdans Partner Award winner at the Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021, was also appointed 1st Prize, Critics’ Award and Production Award by the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Artistic Director Marco Goecke of Staatstheater Hannover at the prestigious 35. International Choreography Competition Hannover 2021.