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Sophie YanceySophie Yancey, graduated from the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri ‐ Kansas City with an emphasis in ballet and modern dance. She grew up in Independence, Missouri, and began dancing at the age of three under the instruction of Christine Palmer and Heather Foose at the Craig Dance Studio of Independence. Sophie has loved to dance since childhood and now particularly enjoys choreography and teaching. She danced competitively as a teenager and began teaching and choreographing for other dancers at a young age. As a young adult, she had the honor to attend intensives at the Kansas City Ballet, Dramatic Truth School of the Arts, and Deeply Rooted Dance Theater in Chicago. Sophie has performed in Deanna Hiett's Ecifircas, Gary Abbott's Breaking the Damn 2014 and was honored to have been chosen as part of a small group of UMKC students that were asked to perform in Alvin Ailey's Memoria in the fall of 2014. Sophie has also danced professionally for one season with Dramatic Truth Ballet Theatre, six seasons with Vida Dance Company. For her three seasons dancing with Kansas City Dance Collective Sophie also served as their Rehearsal Director and choreographer. Sophie has performed many featured roles. Most notably, she has premiered the character of Clara in Cracked! A Reimagined Kansas City Nutcracker, Frankie in Turning the Page for Vida Dance Company, and Cat in the new production of House Haunters for KCDC. Sophie's choreography credits include, "Teabiotics" for Cracked! and "Party Scene" in Fringe! Festival 2022, A Russian Christmas, "Getting Ready" in the Razzle Dazzle Fringe! Festival 2023 and "Making a Plan" in KCDC's production of Malice and Masquerades: A Fateful Phantom Tale, as well as "Fight" for The Moment of Change. She plans to continue performing and choreographing and looks forward to broadening her horizons in the dance community in Kansas City wherever the adventure of dances takes her. In her most recent endeavors, Sophie choreographed and produced shows in Brookings Oregon and Kansas City such as "A Magical Musical Medley", "Jiggin' in the Ruffin'", "Frog and Toad", "School of Rock", "Jungle Book", and "Annie Jr." for the Penguin Project Blue Springs City Theatre. |
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