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Updated 8/24/2020

Sofia Engelman

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    MA

Institution/Business Type: Artist / Creative (Individual)

Sofia Engelman has been making dances since age 14. Sofia received a BA with highest honors in Dance from Smith College and, in high school, trained intensively with Lauren Simpson at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in Cambridge, MA. Sofia has presented works, including ongoing High Maintenance studies, at venues such as Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, Denmark Arts Center, and Harvard University and teaches choreography, technique, and dance fitness classes regularly to children and adults. Sofia is a co-founder/director of freeskewl and an administrator at Contact Quarterly and School for Contemporary Dance and Thought.

Sofia is also engaged in an ongoing collaboration with Em Papineau:

Em Papineau and Sofia Engelman are dance artists based in New England. Their first collaborative work, Where the air is light and clear, was presented at the National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Together, Em and Sofia have held artistic residencies at The Living Room (Maine) and Ponderosa (Germany) and performed in work by Michael Figueroa/Ruckus Dance, David Dorfman, and Chris Aiken. The pair have performed iterations of their most recent project, INSTANT SAVIORS (just add water), at Movement Research at the Judson Church, FRESH Festival, EstroGenius at Kraine Theater, HUT at the School for Contemporary Dance and Thought, and AS220's Providence Movement Festival.

from Em and Sofia on their collaboration:

At the heart of our work is our queer relationship. Our relationship manifests not as a narrative so much as a feeling, a state of being, a world, and a logic. Our work creates and requires a particular state of togetherness through active negotiation, hopeless dependency, and acts of trust and survival. We shape unstable, intimate places through re-orientation and disorientation of the body, images, words, and objects. We love serious messes and treat every object we introduce into process and performance as essential, integrated, autonomous entities. We make space for effort and oddities. We are interested in humor, but not in making a joke of ourselves. We create structures and systems and then deconstruct or abandon them; we engage in a practice of world making and world reinvention.

Find Me

Sofia Engelman
Job Title: Choreographer/Dancer
Phone: 8572078870
Address:
75 West St.
#11
Northampton, MA 01060

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About

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Overview

Institution/Business Type:

Artist / Creative (Individual)

Legal Status:

Commercial / For profit - Sole proprietorship

Year Founded:

2014

Disciplines

Primary Discipline:

Dance - Modern / Contemporary

Additional Disciplines:

  • Dance - General

Activities and Services

Activities and Services:

  • Arts Instruction / Lessons
  • Performance / Concert / Reading
  • Workshops / Demonstrations / Master Class
Seasons Active: spring, summer, fall, winter
Events Per Year: 14

Communities

Populations Engaged:

  • Adults
  • General Public
  • LGBTQ Populations
  • Teens

Geographic Reach:

  • International

Media Gallery

I Have Worked With

Affiliations and Accomplishments

Awards

Awards:

  • Smith College Class of 2019 Excellence in Dance Award
  • ACDA: Selected from New England region to perform and present choreography at National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Awards

Awards:

  • Smith College Class of 2019 Excellence in Dance Award
  • ACDA: Selected from New England region to perform and present choreography at National College Dance Festival at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

Education

Education:

  • BA with highest honors in Dance - Smith College

Artist Info

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$50 - $3,000

Teaching Artist

Teaching Settings:

  • Afterschool Program
  • Arts and Cultural Center / Venue
  • Community Site / Center
  • Private Studio

Ages Served:

  • Elementary School-age
  • Middle School-age
  • High School-age
  • College-age
  • Adults
  • Seniors

Subject Areas:

  • Dance

Fee range:

$50 - $3,000

Touring Artist

NEST Eligible Artist

Technical Requirements:

  • Sound Equipment
  • Floor suitable for dancing

Fee Range:

$150 - $10,000

State of Residence:

Massachusetts

Minimum Number of Performers:

1

Maximum Number of Performers:

6