My name is Sophia Brown. I am a Visual artist and actress based in London.

I am classically trained in Ballet, Jazz and contemporary Dance. My work spans across many disciplines, including stage, screen, Fashion film/print and collaborations with visual artists. For the past 8 years, movement has been the central study of my work as I focus on character and animal study. 

With this, I play with rhythm, pitch, tone, thought, breath, weight and feeling. 

My Jamaican heritage has become the stimulus of most of my work as I try to find a connection to my ancestral people. Through exploring different movement, with a focus on people and culture, I am finding my history. 

 

I believe that everything we do comes back to movement, whether its walking, talking or breathing, It comes back to a form of movement. With that expression in mind, I like to play with that idea in all its ways possible. 

 

Alongside my personal work, I am a current member of the Theo Adams Company. Some of my recent performance and choreographic credits include; Fashion Films Loverboy for Charles Jeffrey, Series 2 for The Arc London, Crawl for Purple Fashion Magazine. Live Collaborations include BLOOD for King Kong magazine, Choreomania for Hoi Polloi, Resurrection for Fiorucci, Rooms with FKA Twigs and  11 o’ Clock Number for Halpern.

 

What initially introduced me to Dance was growing up around music. With my family playing several instruments (Accordion, Piano, Drums, Clarinet, Trumpet and Trombone) I naturally followed in there footsteps. I learnt to play the drums and Piano from age 8 learning Jazz and classical basics. Despite now having detoured from that path, my initial musical knowledge gave me an understanding of rhythm that would grow into an understanding of movement.