Sophia Ndaba is a Zulu Australian dance artist who holds a varied skill set in creating and performing dance in both contemporary and commercial styles across theatre, TV, and film. When she’s not on stage performing, you can find her in the studio creating new works as a notable choreographer and creative director.

Sophia is a graduate of the McDonald College of Performing Arts and the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA), qualified with a Bachelor of Arts in Dance. Her credits include performing for Shaun Parker & Company, La Fura Dels Baus & Opera Australia, Force Majeure, Ensemble Offspring, Britta Lieberknecht & Company, along with independent choreographers, Melanie Lane, Victoria Hunt, Martin Del Amo, Sara Black, Anton, Nici Grandison and Kiani Del Valle. Sophia is also a founding member of the Dance Makers Collective and the KDV Ensemble.

Sophia’s choreographic work began with the Dance Makers Collective in 2012. Since then, she has choreographed a solo work, In The Light of a Shadow for Berlin theatre Ballhaus Naunynstrasse, TVCs for Best & Less, Virgin Australia and for Sky TNT’s TV series – PARA Wir sind King.

After moving to Berlin in 2016, Sophia joined Clark’s world tour of Death Peak Live (2016-2018), DJ Bobo’s Kaleidoluna European tour (2019) and Lena Meyer Landrut’s Only Love European tour (2019), and danced in large-scale on-screen productions X Factor Germany, seasons 1 and 2 of The Masked Singer Germany and season 3 of Netflix series, Babylon Berlin.

Sophia has enjoyed creating short works for WAAPA, The Mcdonald College and Ev and Bow Full Time Training Centre. She is also the recipient of one of Critical Path’s 2022 space grants whereby she seeded the beginning research and development for a new ensemble work for film, Groupthink.

Sophia’s latest choreography, The Veil of Separation, had its world premiere to critical acclaim in, Sydney Dance Company’s 2022 New Breed Season, in Sydney, Australia.