Winnipeg-born Sophie Dow is a multidisciplinary creative, inspired by dance, music, collaboration and Métis-Assiniboine + settler roots. An avid adventurer, Sophie has a passion for busking, yoga and traveling on top of holding a degree in Dance Performance and Choreography from York University.

With a unique list of credits deeply impacting personal creative process and vocabulary, Sophie has had the great fortune of working with some of the country’s wonderful dance innovators, including Chimera Dance Theatre, Kaeja d'Dance, adelheid’s re:research, Carol Anderson and Jeanette Kotowich to name a few.

In 2018 and 2019, Sophie embarked on epic tours across Turtle Island with highlights featuring choreographing and performing in opening ceremonies of Shambhala Music Festival, filming with Vero Films and teaching dance in many rural & urban school contexts throughout the mountains and prairies.

As a creator, Sophie is consistently nurturing and evolving an inventive voice. Life-changing opportunities to choreograph (and occasionally perform) with diverse ranges of movers continue exploding boundaries of Sophie's ongoing compositions and curiosities. Advocates and presenters of these ideas include: The Paprika Festival, Workman Arts, O’Dela Arts, Danceworks TO, WindDown Dances, NightShift (Citadel&Co), Raven Spirit Dance, Buddies in Badtimes Theatre, Festival of Recorded Movement (F-O-R-M), Nightwood Theatre, Fixt Point Empathy Squad/Theatre Direct, Ontario Arts Council and grand varieties of festivals, stages and outdoor sites.

Presently Sophie is Artistic Associate of Chimera Dance Theatre, a Creative Director of Prince Edward County’s Flight Festival of Contemporary Dance, choreographer for Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto, writes music with The Honeycomb Flyers and is a licensed practitioner of Traditional Thai Massage.

photo: Graham Isador