Sofia Nappi is choreographer, founder and artistic director of KOMOCO, a contemporary dance company based in Italy and active internationally. 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 and MASDANZA. Graduating from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in New York; Sofia’s training has been strongly influenced by close contact with the Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and her study of Gaga, the movement language developed by renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin. As an independent choreographer, Sofia 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 NDT 2 as part of the Up & Coming Choreographers project. In 2025, Sofia created DUENDE for Leipziger Ballett and will create for Gauthier Dance//Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart as well as Ballet BC.