Sofia Nappi is choreographer and artistic director of KOMOCO, a contemporary dance company based in Italy and active internationally, that she co-founded alongside her first muses, Adriano Popolo Rubbio and Paolo Piancastelli.
Right from the start, Sofia’s early creations with KOMOCO have won prestigious awards: the Partner Introdans Award (Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021) and the 1st Prize, Critics Award, and Production Award at the 35th International Choreography Competition Hannover from the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Marco Goecke (2021).
Currently KOMOCO’s works, choreographed by Sofia, are presented in Italy and internationally, with tours across Europe as well as Mexico, Canada, and Serbia, hosted by international institutions and festivals such as: La Biennale di Venezia, The Albania Meeting Dance Festival, RomaEuropa Festival, MASDANZA, The Colors International Dance Festival, Teatros del Canal and Madrid en Danza, Danse Danse (Montreal), Belgrade Dance Festival, to name a few.
As an independent choreographer, Sofia also creates new works for internationally renowned dance companies and theaters: in 2021, she re-staged Holelah with the National Theatre Mannheim, originally created for the 2019 Venice Biennale; in 2023, Tagadà at Staatsoper Hannover, Moving Cloud for Scottish Dance Theatre, premiered as part of Celtic Connections 2023, and the inclusive project Kemet commissioned by the Dutch national company Introdans as part of the HubClub’23 project. In 2024, she choreographed the stage movements for the opera Platée at Göteborg Opera and presented the creation Hara for Nederlands Dans Theater 2 as part of the Up & Coming Choreographers project. In 2025, Sofia will create new works for Leipzig Ballet, Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, and Ballet BC in Vancouver. In 2026 she will restage Tagadà with Introdans and create a new evening for KOMOCO.
In parallel, Sofia Nappi’s work extends into research and professional training at an international level (including Tisch – New York University, Micadanses at Carreau du Temple in Paris, Henny Jurriëns Studio in Amsterdam, b12 and Share Intensive in Berlin, Elephant and the Black Box in Madrid, Tanzpunkt Hannover, Ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal, Opus Ballet in Florence, etc.), in close collaboration with the dancers of KOMOCO. Since 2022, she has organized the “Komoco Intensive” workshop in Florence twice a year, attended by professional dancers from all over the world.
Sofia graduated from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in New York; her training has also been strongly influenced by close contact with Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and her study of Gaga, the movement language developed by renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin.
Photo : Roberto Graziani
