Sophie
Williams
Career highlight include performing in Concerto Barocco, Dark Angel in Serenade, and in Theme and Variations. In 2020, Williams joined the Royal New Zealand Ballet, where she had the opportunities to tour the country, connect with her kiwi roots, and perform in works by Liam Scarlett and Patricia Barker. She joined Texas Ballet Theater in 2022.
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Meet the dynamic cast of Pointeworks artists at our very first event!
Join us at the La Jolla Conrad Theater on October 12th for an evening filled with conversations on dance, our vision, the choreographic process, and, most importantly, our first opportunity to introduce San Diego to our artists of Pointeworks. These passionate dancers from Argentina, New Zealand, Japan, and across the USA, come together to give insight into the ballets of our exciting inaugural performance which will be presented June 2024 at The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center in La Jolla. This fresh mixed repertory program will feature the voices of five female choreograpHERs and include a captivating world premiere as well as the first time introduction to San Diego audiences of the thrilling works of Heather Nichols, Melody Mennite, and Caili Quan. Experience an inside look into this female-led project celebrating innovative women across creative fields including choreography, music, design, and visual art.
Pointeworks would like to thank The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center for its generous support of this event.
Sophie Williams
Artistic Director
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Biography
Sophie Williams, a California native, began training at Ballet Arte Academy of Classical Ballet in San Diego, before spending one year in Miami City Ballet’s Pre Professional Division. Highlights of her professional career include performing as the First and Second Violins in Concerto Barocco, Dark Angel in George Balanchine’s Serenade, and Gamzatti in La Bayadère; in the corps de ballet of Balanchine’s Theme and Variations, with the Richmond Ballet; and in various full length productions, including Alicia Alonso’s Giselle with Ballet San Jose, and Edwaard Liang’s Don Quixote and Cinderella with BalletMet. In 2020, Williams joined the Corps de Ballet of the Royal New Zealand Ballet, where she had the opportunities to perform in Liam Scarlett’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Ethan Stiefel’s Giselle. She joined Texas Ballet Theater in 2022, where she has had the opportunity to perform new and existing works by Ben Stevenson. Williams has enjoyed engaging in the creative processes with the National Choreographers Initiative and Chamber Dance Project.
In 2023 Williams founded Pointeworks with a vision to inspire our communities with world class ballet and our love of the art by forging a space for passionate artists to create and collaborate.
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