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Sophia Klein is an intermedia artist, dancer, choreographer and videographer working in the Bay Area and Sacramento. Sophia was born and raised on the island of Oahu, but traveled extensively during her homeschooled years. During her time on Oahu, Sophia studied studio art and sustainable theatrical design at La Pietra and worked as a teacher’s assistant for children's art classes at Linekona Art Center. From there, her love of art making grew. Sophia moved to Oakland California in 2012 and studied videography and dance at Mills College. During her time at Mills, Sophia has had the pleasure of dancing and performing with numerous artists and companies to include Molissa Fenley, inkBoat, Wanjiru Kamuyu, Amy O'Neal, Wax Poets, Kara Davis, Risa Jaroslow, Gina Bonati, and the Mills Repertory Dance Company. Sophia also established and co-founded the Three Sisters Dance Company while attending Mills. They have since toured site specific works and done residencies at Slide Ranch, Oak Glen Park, Winters Farm, Mills College, and Temescal Arts Center. While at Mills, Sophia worked as a freelance videographer for dancers in the Bay Area, creating documentaries, promotional videos, and screendance works. Sophia is currently working as the videographer and editor for the documentary series Mapping the Margins: Transgender and Gender Variant Portraits Across America.
TRAINING
Mills College Repertory Dance Company
Shinichi Iova-Koga- inkBoat Physical Theatre and Dance Company
Molissa Fenley and Company
Anna Halperin- Master Class Series
Wanjiru Kamuyu Dance Collective
Holley Farmer- Principal dancer in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Sheldon Smith- Head of Mills College Dance Department
Kara Davis- Alonzo King LINES Ballet and the "Project Agora"
Amy O'Neal- Artist in residence at Mills College
AXIS Dance Company- Mills College master class series
Risa Jaroslow & Dancers
Dana Iova-Koga- inkBoat
Peiling Kao- Mills College
Anne-Rene Petrarca- Alexander Technique
Felipe Barrueto-Cabello- Joe Goode Performance Group
Three Sisters Dance Company
Dance On Land with inkBoat
Wax Poets Dance Collective
SALTA Collective at the Berkeley Art Museum & Temescal Art Center
Jubilith Moore- Theatre Nohgaku
Yumiko Yoshioka- Master Classes at Mills College
Ballet Hawaii
EDUCATION
2012 - 2016
Mills College Oakland, CA
- B.A. in Intermedia Arts & Dance
- Graduated with Academic Honors
- GPA: 3.94
- Mills College Award for Innovation in Technology,
Dance, & Film
NOTABLE PERFORMANCE WORK
2016 - 2017
Wax Poet(s) Dance Collective; Shouting Through a Window Between Worlds
-Joe Goode Annex
Wanjiru Kamuyu; At the Moment of Encounter
-Black Choreographers Festival at the Dance Mission Theatre & SAFEhouse Performing Arts
Mills College Repertory Company Tour; Works by Amy O’Neal, Kara Davis, Wanjiru Kamuyu
-ODC Dance Commons, San Jose State College, San Mateo College
Molissa Fenley; Water Table pt. 8: Mali -Mills College Art Museum
Amy O’Neal presented by SALTA Collective; There is No Other
-Berkeley Art Museum
Kara Davis; Seguir -Joe Goode Annex "Wrecking Fest" with Hope Mohr and Chris Black
Molissa Fenley and Friends; Slab Hook Wing & 22 Tails by Sophia Klein and Adrienne Swan
-SAFEhouse Performing Arts
Surabhi Saraf Art + Process + Ideas Exhibition; Intensities
-Dance video installation in the Mills College Art Museum
2014 - 2015
inkBoat Dance Company; 95 Rituals
-San Francisco Hyde Street Pier & SF City Hall
Mills Repertory Company; X = Sky & Sororis Works by Shinichi Iova-Koga & Risa Jaroslow
- ODC Dance Commons & Mills College
SAFEhouse presents Molissa Fenley & Friends; Works by Adrienne Swan & Wanjiru Kamuyu
- SAFEhouse Performing Arts
Ava Rosen; I Could Not Swallow the Grainy Flesh Colored Memory
-Mercury Twenty Gallery, Oakland CA
Three Sisters Dance Company Tour; Baba’s Birds, Her Arms Her river, Nobody Wins No One is Chosen, This is My Body//We are Incredible, And Then I Leaped Down, Cliff Hymn, Shipwreck
-Temescal Arts Center, Slide Ranch, Winters California Organic Farm, Oak Glen Park
Experiments in the Fault Zone; Live Music Series: New Choreography to John Cage’s Dream
-Art Exhibition at the Mills College Art Museum
VIDEOGRAPHY
Mills College Dance and Theater Dept. / Videographer
January 2015 - May 2016, Oakland CA
- Videography for dance and theater productions in Lisser Theater and Haas Pavilion
inkBoat Dance Company / Videographer & Editor
June 2014 - April 2017, Petrolia and Oakland CA
- Filmed and edited promotional videos for inkBoat’s Dance On Land summer workshops. Photographed performances for 95 Rituals; A published book honoring Anna Halperin through performance based works.
Molissa Fenley at the Stanford Art Museum / Videographer & Sound Tech
May 2016, Stanford CA
Wanjiru Kamuyu in Residency at Mills College / Videographer
May 2015
PERSONAL WORKS
Mapping the Margins Project: Transgender and Gender Variant Portraits Across America / Videographer and Editor
2016 - PRESENT
OC//EN / Dance Film
2016
Whiptails / Multimedia Dance Work and Dance Film
2016
Coil Pt. 1 / Multimedia Dance Work
2016
Nobody Wins No One is Chosen / Dance
2015
And Then I Leaped Down / Dance
2015
This is My Body//We are Incredible / Dance and Video
2014
Cliff Hymn / Dance
2014
Shipwreck / Dance
2014
Baba’s Birds / Dance
2014
Her Arms Her River / Dance
2013
