about
Sophie is an Australian dance artist, performer and teacher based on Kaurna Yerta/Adelaide, Australia.
Sophie trained at Adelaide College of the Arts, graduating in 2022 with a Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance). Since graduating, Sophie has worked as freelance artist, collaborating with various local and international artists. Sophie also teaches and facilitates dance workshops with Carclew, Restless Dance Theatre and Fortuna House of Performing Arts.
Sophie has worked, collaborated and performed with Motus Collective (Zoe Gay and Felicity Boyd), DanceHubSA, Shifting Lives Theatre, Australian Dance Theatre, Alix Kuijpers, Tayla Hoadley, Isobel Stolinski and Alchemy Dance Collective on various projects.
Her practice currently works primarily with movement in context of constant exploration, following intuition, and inhabiting new physicalities and textures.
headshot by Weronika Mamot
2026
the great thinning / Sophie Hollingworth / Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia
LLAMA x LOFT Residency/ Zoë Dunwoodie / Adelaide, Australia
IT’S ALIVE / Alix Kuijpers and Murk Lurker / Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia
choreolab 2026 (Helpmann Academy Development Grant) / Footnote New Zealand Dance / Wellington, New Zealand
2025
MOULD / Isobel Stolinski for ROTPUNKT/ Adelaide, Australia
IT’S ALIVE / Alix Kuijpers and Murk Lurker / Adelaide, Australia
Perth Moves / STRUT / Perth, Australia
LOFT EXPERIMENT Residency / Australian Dance Theatre
2024
The Leftovers / Motus Collective / Adelaide, Australia
Essence of Authenticity / Tayla Hoadley / Blayney, New South Wales & Adelaide, South Australia
Two of Them / Shifting Lives Theatre / Adelaide Fringe, Australia
Kalakeli Movement Arts Residency (Helpmann Academy HA>NESS Grant) / Goa, India
J.A.C.D Residency / Alchemy Dance Collective
2023
The Leftovers / Motus Collective / Adelaide Fringe Festival, Australia
COWL / Alix Kuijpers / Adelaide, Australia
X / DanceHub SA / Adelaide Fringe, Australia
2020 - 2022
Adelaide College of the Arts Bachelor of Creative Arts (Dance)
The Leftovers, Motus Collective, directed by Zoe Gay, October 3-5 2024, Adelaide Festival Centre Space Theatre, photography by Tim Standing, sculptures by Nicholas Hanisch