Sofia Bengoa
Photo Credit: Brandon Perdomo
Sofia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and grew up in Miami, FL. She received her early dance training at Heidi and Joe Melchiona's Dance Center. Sofia attended Brown University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in community health. While at Brown, she danced in works by Carol Abizaid, Julie Strandberg, and William Forsythe repertoire and performed with MEZCLA, Brown’s Latin dance company, and Badmaash, Brown's South Asian Fusion dance team.
After moving to NYC, in addition to obtaining her Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology and Master in Public Health, Sofia trained extensively in ballet, jazz, contemporary, and Latin fusion. Recent performance credits include Theater Dance Vietnam: Dancing Through, WAXworks/Triskelion Arts, OFFLINE Thrive/Nimbus Dance, Jazz Choreography Enterprises, and Booking Dance Festival/Jazz at Lincoln Center. She's had the pleasure of working with Tracie Stanfield (Construction Company, Brooklyn Dance Festival Company), Paul Brown-Lombardi, Cristal Del Mar Lopez, Danielle Diniz, Ashle Dawson, and Julie Carter, among others. Sofia assists Eric Campros in his Contemporary Jazz classes at Broadway Dance Center.