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{{Infobox dancer

|name = Sophia Maria Lucia

|image = File:Sophia Lucia ~~2024~~.jpg

|image = File:Sophia Lucia March 2025.jpg

|gender = Female

|age = {{age|2002|09|07}}

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|hair color = Brown

|school grade = High School Class of 2021 College Class of 2025 (Bachelor in Psychology (major) - University of Arizona)

|profession = Choreographer Dancer Dance Teacher ~~ Actress Singer~~ Model Psychologist Entrepreneur

|profession = Choreographer Dancer Dance Teacher Model Psychologist Entrepreneur

|affiliations = Bloc Talent Agency (former) Clear Talent Group Unity Dance Ensemble Paradigm Talent Agency

|dance studios = San Diego Dance Centre (2004-2013) Abby Lee Dance Company (2013) RT Dance Academy (2013-2014) Danceology Performing Arts Campus (2014-2015) Master Ballet Academy (2015-2016) Rhythmic Gymnastics School (2016-present) PAVE School of the Arts (2021-2022) Dance Lab OC (2022-present) Adage Dance Center (2022-present)

|dance studios = San Diego Dance Centre (2004-2013) Abby Lee Dance Company (2013) RT Dance Academy (2013-2014) Danceology Performing Arts Campus (2014-2015) Master Ballet Academy (2015-2016) Rhythmic Gymnastics School (2016-present) PAVE School of the Arts (2021-2022) Dance Lab OC (2022-present) Adage Dance Center (2022-present) Avanti Dance Company (present) <ref>[https://www.avantidancecompany.com/youth-schedule/ ADC HP Youth Schedule]</ref>

|titles = ''see below''

|parents = Jaclyn Lucia (mother), IFBB Bikini Pro <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/jaclynlucia_/ Jaclyn Lucia IG]</ref> Michael Lucia (father) Tiffani King <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/tiffaniking/ Tiffani King IG]</ref> Rachel Sebastian (her other real Dance Moms)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/rachel__sebastian/ Rachel Sebastian IG]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLPWHzqCFF/ Soph`s IG real dance moms]</ref>

|siblings = Vinny Lucia (brother) [[Gianna Mojonnier]] (cousin)

|friends = [[Kalani Hilliker]] Amber Hoffman [[Camila Schwarz]] [[Hayden Hopkins]] [[Kaycee Rice]] [[Kaeli Ware]] [[Kylie Yamane]] [[Everleigh Soutas]] [[Mackenzie Ziegler]] [[Maddie Ziegler]] [[Autumn Miller]] [[Ambry Mehr]] [[Avery Gay]] [[Asia Monet Ray]]

|friends = Ethan Bloem (boyfriend)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ethan.bloem/ Ethan Bloem's IG]</ref> [[Kalani Hilliker]] Amber Hoffman [[Camila Schwarz]] [[Hayden Hopkins]] [[Kaycee Rice]] [[Kaeli Ware]] [[Kylie Yamane]] [[Everleigh Soutas]] [[Mackenzie Ziegler]] [[Maddie Ziegler]] [[Autumn Miller]] [[Ambry Mehr]] [[Avery Gay]] [[Asia Monet Ray]]

|pets = 2+ cats

|nicknames = Soph Sophie

}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is an ~~international,~~ established, professional dance teacher, ~~former~~ ballerina, industry dancer ~~and a multi-talented~~, ~~still national working~~ choreographer, model<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CgneqgSJsEk/ Sophie`s IG - Director of Photography Claudio A. Robles 🇸🇻]</ref>, entrepreneur ~~(startup phase)~~, ~~singer and actress<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ IMDb Sophia Lucia]</ref>, a~~ psychologist ~~(unconfirmed)~~, and a philanthropist with Italian, Irish, German, French and Swedish roots living in Los Angeles~~, CA~~.

}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is an internationally established, multi-awarded professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer, choreographer, model<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CgneqgSJsEk/ Sophie`s IG - Director of Photography Claudio A. Robles 🇸🇻]</ref>, entrepreneur, psychologist, and a philanthropist with Italian, Irish, German, French and Swedish roots living in Los Angeles.

She is holding the official Guinness Book world record by completing 55 consecutive pirouettes at the San Diego Dance Center in Poway, California, USA on 30 March 2013 at the age of 10.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/82089-most-consecutive-pirouettes-contemporary-dance#:~:text=The%20record%20for%20the%20most,USA%20on%2030%20March%202013. Guinness Book WR Lucia]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1JLuv5WVQ Sophia Lucia - Record Breaker]</ref> ~~- Currently~~ she ~~wants to teach dancing around~~ the ~~world~~.<ref>[https://www.~~moveitdance~~.co.uk/~~artist-list~~/~~sophia-lucia~~/ ~~Sophia Lucia Bio Move IT HP~~]</ref>

She is holding the official Guinness Book world record by completing 55 consecutive pirouettes at the San Diego Dance Center in Poway, California, USA on 30 March 2013 at the age of 10.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/82089-most-consecutive-pirouettes-contemporary-dance#:~:text=The%20record%20for%20the%20most,USA%20on%2030%20March%202013. Guinness Book WR Lucia]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1JLuv5WVQ Sophia Lucia - Record Breaker]</ref> She started managing her own founded [https://www.instagram.com/fallfiveintensive/ Fall Five Intensive workshops] ([https://www.fallfiveintensive.com/ HP], [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7552986592789433630 Promo]) since 2023, frequently running over two days for juniors and seniors. In last year as of October 2025, she worked often in European and Canadian cities, such as London, Paris, Calgary and Cracow, mostly as instructor or choreographer on major dance events. Meanwhile she is considered as part of the American Dance High Society.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/galaofthestars/ Gala of the Stars' IG]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKf7_GEgce/?img_index=1 Soph's IG DAC GOTS 2025]</ref>

As a young dancer and choreographer, she was ~~most recently~~ trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She had danced and was trained before by San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. So Sophia thinks she was basically born into dance.<ref>[https://www.naludamagazine.com/sophia-lucia-interview/ Naluda Magazine Exclusive interview with Sophia Lucia]</ref>

As a young dancer and choreographer, she was mostly trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona, but she didn't graduate and aborted her education. She had danced and was trained before by San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. So Sophia thinks she was basically born into dance.<ref>[https://www.naludamagazine.com/sophia-lucia-interview/ Naluda Magazine Exclusive interview with Sophia Lucia]</ref>

She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was two years old until she was 11 to be one day on Lifetime’s ''Dance Moms'' show. She is trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Ballroom, and Contemporary. Sophia moved to Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of twelve to train with Master Ballet Academy and later danced with the Phoenix Ballet and Ballet Arizona. When she was 8 she was already dancing 55 hours per week. Still today she has an average 9-10 hours working day.

She did commercials, such as, for McDonald's<ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t91zy Sophia Lucia in Monster High McDonald's Commercial]</ref>, Old Navy<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ABPgy7Exw Sophs Old Navy Commercial]</ref>, Party City and some promos for the Shirley Temple Story and A Nutcracker Christmas movies she was featured.

She did commercials, such as, for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMmfAlhgHE McDonald's]<ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t91zy Sophia Lucia in Monster High McDonald's Commercial]</ref>, Old Navy<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ABPgy7Exw Sophs Old Navy Commercial]</ref>, Party City and some promos for the Shirley Temple Story and A Nutcracker Christmas movies she was featured.

In 2015, Sophia participated in a YouTube series named "Teen Dance Challenge" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMBFE_odUk Ep10 Sophia Lucia HD], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctv5T6sJCiQ EP9 Sophia BTS HD]) alongside [[Talia Seitel]], [[Lucy Vallely]], [[Chloe East]] and [[Sean Lew]]. In December, she was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz10oGO4osU announced as the winner] by Instagram online voting of the grand prize of a one year scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City worth $30,000 USD, including full tuition and housing.

In 2016, Sophia helped her dance partner [https://www.instagram.com/wmjack_beckham/ William Jackson Beckham], a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Company, Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits from 15 to 19 (reg 1.2, because under 15 she violates the Bulgarian (EU) child labor laws; it`s death serious pro in Varna) and competitors may participate also with a partner who is not a competitor at all, when they perform a pas-de-deux or contemporary choreography where more than one performer is required (reg 1.7) <ref>[https://varna-ibc.org/competition/regulations/ Varna IBC regulations]</ref> - at her age of 13 took him home the Gold Medal and the First Class Distinction Diploma in Junior Division <ref>[http://balletfederation.com/?p=912&lang=en IBFC - We are proud to announce the winners of the XXVII International Ballet Competition – Varna]</ref> ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZN0NU0HJ9M first dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZgAzWiAQA second dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2MPOGcue8 third dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAj5T7BDww fourth dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKJQ7DIYDk fifth dance]) at [https://varna-ibc.org/ XXVI. Varna IBC 2016] and were representing the USA. They had trained and rehearsed about 8 months full-time for this event. But being the youngest performing at Varna IBC, she was awarded with a Special Bounty Partnership Award.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxz6fl1NYqE Awards to Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham @VARNA IBC 2016]</ref> Afterwards, Soph is considering herself a professional dancer. Jack won also the “Promising Young Dancer” award in Varna. As of 2018, he was promoted to main company at the Tusla Ballet in Oklahoma. <ref>[https://tulsaballet.org/company/dancers/william-jackson-beckham/ Tusla ballet JP Jack Beckham]</ref> Sadly he quited pro ballet dance later, maybe due injuries and has became a pilot. To understand, the Varna IBC is considered as the "Olympics of Professional Ballet and Contemporary Dancing", it was the very first professional ballet competition, which is hold every two years ~~since~~ 1964 ~~(2020 was an exception due~~ Coronavirus ~~and~~ lack of sponsorship). About 40 countries send up 150 of their most promising young dancers to the Bulgarian city. The faculty of Varna IBC ~~are~~ members of the best experts around the globe and also known as the toughest judges you can ever get, and because Ballet is an academic field in many countries, a lot ~~have~~ a professorship as well. So the Junior Winners don`t just ~~win~~ a medal, they get strait a First and Second Class Distinction Diploma. It´s like ''`how to get a college degree summa cum laude within 15 days`''. The most prestigious Ballet companies and theaters on the world ~~request~~ the winners become a member in their ensembles, because many winners of the Varna IBC, such as, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Patrick Dupont, Yassen Valchanov, Vladimir Derevyanko, Farukh Ruzimatov, Alla Mikhalchenko etc, became the world`s best and finest ballet dancers at their times. And to give outsiders a feeling how Ballet is rated. If you ask any pro dancers around the world about their open top 10 list of the best dancers of all time, the structure is always the same: Nine from Ballet plus Michael Jackson.

In 2016, Sophia helped her dance partner [https://www.instagram.com/wmjack_beckham/ William Jackson Beckham], a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Company, Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits from 15 to 19 (reg 1.2, because under 15 she violates the Bulgarian (EU) child labor laws; it`s death serious pro in Varna) and competitors may participate also with a partner who is not a competitor at all, when they perform a pas-de-deux or contemporary choreography where more than one performer is required (reg 1.7) <ref>[https://varna-ibc.org/competition/regulations/ Varna IBC regulations]</ref> - at her age of 13 took him home the Gold Medal and the First Class Distinction Diploma in Junior Division <ref>[http://balletfederation.com/?p=912&lang=en IBFC - We are proud to announce the winners of the XXVII International Ballet Competition – Varna]</ref> ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZN0NU0HJ9M first dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZgAzWiAQA second dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2MPOGcue8 third dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAj5T7BDww fourth dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKJQ7DIYDk fifth dance]) at [https://varna-ibc.org/ XXVI. Varna IBC 2016] and were representing the USA. They had trained and rehearsed about 8 months full-time for this event. But being the youngest performing at Varna IBC, she was awarded with a Special Bounty Partnership Award.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxz6fl1NYqE Awards to Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham @VARNA IBC 2016]</ref> Afterwards, Soph is considering herself a professional dancer. Jack won also the “Promising Young Dancer” award in Varna. As of 2018, he was promoted to main company at the Tusla Ballet in Oklahoma. <ref>[https://tulsaballet.org/company/dancers/william-jackson-beckham/ Tusla ballet JP Jack Beckham]</ref> Sadly he quited pro ballet dance later, maybe due injuries and has became a pilot. To understand, the Varna IBC is considered as the "Olympics of Professional Ballet and Contemporary Dancing", it was the very first professional ballet competition, which was hold every two years from 1964 to 2019. After Coronavirus, lack of sponsorship and changes in the local organization, and now the war in Ukraine putting a damper on Black Sea tourism. So they are on pause currently. About 40 countries had send up 150 of their most promising young dancers to the Bulgarian city. The faculty of Varna IBC were members of the best experts around the globe and also known as the toughest judges you can ever get, and because Ballet is an academic field in many countries, a lot had a professorship as well. So the Junior Winners don`t just won a medal, they get strait a First and Second Class Distinction Diploma. It´s like ''`how to get a college degree summa cum laude within 15 days`''. The most prestigious Ballet companies and theaters on the world requested the winners become a member in their ensembles, because many winners of the Varna IBC, such as, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Patrick Dupont, Yassen Valchanov, Vladimir Derevyanko, Farukh Ruzimatov, Alla Mikhalchenko etc, became the world`s best and finest ballet dancers at their times. And to give outsiders a feeling how Ballet is rated. If you ask any pro dancers around the world about their open top 10 list of the best dancers of all time, the structure is always the same: Nine from Ballet plus Michael Jackson.

Soph got a lot of job offers around the world after the Varna IBC as well, including Broadway, but she had no idea how to use them at her young age. When the faculty of Varna IBC gave her the Special Bounty Partnership Award, they told her properly how talented she is and how she was unofficially rated, when she had been allowed officially to compete. So the 13 years old ambitious Sophia, who was dragged through the TV shows as World Record Holder when she was ten and had never school class mates in a regular school due homeschooling to keep her grounded, couldn't resist, started bragging and exaggerated the event a little bit and stick in it for years: "... when I won the Gold Medal in Varna ..."(Interview in 2019). And then it got a dynamic by its own, when people framed her words in her resume in Gold as well and distributed it around the world and then suddenly US Ballet Officials knocked on her door and asked her, if she minded to represent the US worldwide abroad as the "Gold Medal winner of Varna". And Sophie took event by event and kept silence about some small details.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVxfsA-VM4 55 Questions With Sophia Lucia]</ref> But since her young success in the Ballet industry, she’s had the honor to perform worldwide representing the USA as a "Gold Medalist".<ref>[https://www.joffreyballetschool.com/sophia-lucia/ Joffrey Ballet HP]</ref> <ref>[https://celebritydance.com/conventions/sophia-lucia/ Celebrity dance HP]</ref>

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On July 2021, she moved to LA after she lost her job due COVID-19 and actually had to leave her own house until December, because she couldn't afford it any longer. She would prefer Orange Country, where she got a new fantastic job. She hates LA and would like to go to Orange Country <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNhfBoJ-6q/ Soph#s IG Instagram Live 8/5/21]</ref>, but actually her boyfriend moved later to her when she was 19.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAxktYqjL7/ body & soul]</ref>

~~As of August 2022~~, Soph ~~spends her time between her three lives~~ - ~~being a~~ dance ~~teacher~~, ~~her personal career mostly as dancer~~, ~~choreographer~~, ~~and model, and enjoying her youth with family and friends with money on her bank account~~ by ~~doing what she loves.<ref>~~[https://www.~~instagram~~.com/~~p/CYSIF3fozdA/~~?hl=~~en Soph's IG Her three lifes~~]</~~ref> A lot of potential means a lot of possible different paths and directions and~~ also ~~a lot of tough choices. So~~ the [https://~~www~~.~~verywellmind.com~~/~~what-is-self-concept-2795865 self-concept~~] ~~of Sophia Lucia~~, ~~who~~ she ~~really is~~ and ~~what~~ she ~~really wants long term,~~ is ~~still TBD~~. ~~On October 2022,~~ she ~~made it quite clear that who she really is will never go public.<ref>~~[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/~~7160405911155084586?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7160405911155084586 xoxo gossip girl - <3~~]~~</ref> It remains what she wants~~.

So on February 14, 2023 (Valentine's Day), Soph and Ambry started their podcast ''[https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ou3CGNkvIsmAXeTtqUzKa The Sitch]'' on Spotify and Apple. A podcast about helping women navigate their 20s and create their dream life: chatting about all things dating, self-worth, confidence, body image, the dance world, friendship & more. Sharing advice, juicy girl chats & tips. On August 7, she revealed by a podium interview the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fyG4YFRjc Realities Of Performing Professionally During Childhood] (brief youth experiences, turn techniques and her planned upcoming company for kids in safe, pressureless, non-competitive environment) at the [https://hdedance.com/ Hollywood Dance Experience] convention 2023. She choreographed also for the [https://joffrey.org/ Joffery Ballett].On November 30, she described a typical week: Monday to Wednesday 9-10 hours teaching, diving back to LA, cooking dinner, watching videos or TV with her boyfriend and on Fridays, she is flying to conventions or different countries and spent a lot of her time lonely at the airports or in planes. But she loves her job and hopes her hard work brings her someday to bigger success beyond teaching - A typical [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7429781200232926506 Thursday Vlog on October 10].

So on ~~February 14, 2023 (Valentine~~'s ~~Day), Soph and Ambry started their podcast~~ ''[https://~~open~~.~~spotify~~.com/~~show~~/~~2Ou3CGNkvIsmAXeTtqUzKa The Sitch~~]~~'' on Spotify and Apple~~. ~~A podcast about helping women navigate their 20s and create their dream life~~: ~~chatting about all things dating, self-worth, confidence, body image, the dance world, friendship & more~~. ~~Sharing advice, juicy girl chats & tips~~. On ~~August 7~~, she ~~revealed by a podium interview the~~ [https://www.~~youtube~~.com/~~watch~~?v=~~f7fyG4YFRjc Realities Of Performing Professionally During Childhood~~] ~~(brief youth experiences, turn techniques~~ and ~~her planned upcoming company for kids in safe, pressureless, non-competive environment) at~~ the [https://~~hdedance~~.com/ ~~Hollywood Dance Experience~~] ~~convention 2023~~. She choreographed ~~also~~ for the [https://~~joffrey~~.~~org~~/ ~~Joffery Ballett~~]~~.On November 30~~, ~~she described a typical week: Monday to Wendesday 9-10 hours teaching~~, ~~diving back to LA~~, ~~cooking dinner~~, ~~watching videos or TV with her boyfriend and on Fridays~~, ~~she is flying to conventions or different countries~~ and ~~spent a lot of her time lonely at the airports or in planes~~. ~~But she loves~~ her ~~job and hopes her hard work brings her someday to bigger success beyond teaching - A typical~~ [https://www.~~tiktok~~.com/~~@_sophialucia/video/7429781200232926506 Thursday Vlog on October 10~~].

Between 15 - 17 March 2024, after a long time, she starts [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lhMhuOFuo/ teaching classes aboard again, beginning in London, UK] on the self-proclaimed ''"World's Biggest Dance Event"'', the [https://www.moveitdance.co.uk/ MOVE IT Dance Show] at [https://www.instagram.com/excellondon/ ExCeL London Event Center]. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C4d-AKKiUMo/?img_index=1 Soph's IG Move IT London]</ref> On October 9, 2024 she got [https://www.instagram.com/p/DA6nlC1zgHh/?img_index=1 invited as special guest to the Industry Dance Awards] and met Robert Hoffmann aka Contemporary Eric again. And she is still the [https://www.instagram.com/p/DBKAT1dCajb/ biggest kid on the floor]. She choreographed for the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FrsmfaS1wY Carneval concept video READY - the visual] and performed with her fellow dancers Kaya McAfee, Elle Dimos, Chelsea Brownie, Sarah Moore, Sarah Laskowski, Josephine Kylee Zarzosa, Maia Rogers, Meghan Ranahan and Soph Domino. On December 8, 2024 Soph continues her [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lKxa4g90A partnership with ''Dancers Against Cancer (DAC)'' and founded ''Fall Five Intensive''].

~~Between 15 - 17 March~~ 2024, ~~after a long time, she starts~~ [https://www.instagram.com/~~reel~~/~~C4lhMhuOFuo/ teaching classes aboard again, beginning in London, UK] on the self-proclaimed '~~'~~"World~~'~~s Biggest~~ Dance ~~Event"~~''~~, the~~ [https://www.~~moveitdance~~.co.uk/ ~~MOVE IT Dance Show~~] at [https://www.instagram.com/~~excellondon~~/ ~~ExCeL London Event Center~~]. ~~<ref>~~[https://www.instagram.com/p/~~C4d-AKKiUMo~~/~~?img_index=1 Soph's IG Move IT London~~]~~</ref> On October 9~~, ~~2024 she got~~ [https://www.instagram.com/p/~~DA6nlC1zgHh~~/~~?img_index=1 invited~~ as ~~special guest to~~ the ~~Industry~~ Dance ~~Awards~~] and ~~met Robert Hoffmann aka Contemporary Eric again~~. ~~And she is still~~ the [https://www.~~instagram~~.com/~~p/DBKAT1dCajb/ biggest kid~~ on ~~the floor]~~. ~~She choreographed for the~~ [https://www.instagram.com/p/~~C_eP_IdyMlV~~/ ~~Carneval concept video READY~~] ~~(Youtube vids should be preferred~~, ~~dear) and performed with her fellow dancers Kaya McAfee~~, ~~Elle Dimos~~, ~~Chelsea Brownie~~, Sarah Moore~~, Sarah Laskowski, Josephine Kylee Zarzosa, Maia Rogers, Meghan Ranahan~~ and ~~Soph Domino~~. On ~~December 8, 2024 Soph continues her~~ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-~~lKxa4g90A partnership with~~ ''~~Dancers Against~~ Cancer (DAC)'' ~~and~~ ''~~Fall Five Intensive~~''].

As of November 2024, Sophia has 1.4M+ Instagram and 288k+ TikTok followers and 141K+ YouTube subscribers.

Soph in on the faculty of the [https://www.instagram.com/intriguedanceconvention/ ''Intrigue Dance Intensive Convention''] [https://www.gointrigue.com/tours/ Season 24/25] and is already announced for next [https://www.gointrigue.com/2025-2026-tour-dates/ Season 25/26]. On April 5, 2025 the was judge for the Olando, FL [https://www.instagram.com/intriguedanceconvention/reel/DIEiNMQOIvj/ ''Teen Continental Contemporary'' audition]. She wanted to point out this [https://www.instagram.com/_sophialucia/reel/DIHYsZ8SJIM/ unknown young talent here] in her junior class later. So we do. Between April 10-13, 2025 [https://www.instagram.com/p/DHv7mjLOwjs/ Soph is annouced as technique judge] on the famous [https://hitthefloor.ca/en/ ''Hit the Floor'' Dance Event] in Villé de Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada. Since 2010 the event has welcomed over 369,500 spectators, 84,000 dancers, 2,275 volunteers and 2,225 dance schools. This year the event was already in Gatineau - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkh8CTB4N8 Show 2025], will be in Saint-Hyacinthe, and in Quebec on May 15-19, 2025. [https://www.instagram.com/p/DH4KbYTT_cr/ Sophia has prepared a show special with her fellows] - Devin Xander Waxman, Coco Williams, Chloe Lopina, Davyd, Sarah Moore and Kevin Lau - for it. On stage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKr_UVoDldo SOPHIA LUCIA COLLECTIF | Hit The Floor Saint-Hyacinthe].

On October 20, 2025 Sophie got the Industry Dance Award in the category [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQDv0IliD2T/ 'Breakthrough Artist Award'] presented by 2024 winner, the legendary [[Autumn Miller]] - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQH9D86Eqxg/?img_index=1 Sophia on the IDA2025], [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQPkcFiDnyr/?img_index=1 Sophia's impressions]. One day later, she was supporting the charity event of ''Dancer against Cancer (DAC)'' - ''Gala of the Stars'' - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKf7_GEgce/?img_index=1 Soph's impressions] being side-by-side with legends of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOeEg4PTXEI 2024 Gala of the Stars | A Night of Dance, Philanthropy, and Inspiration]. Even [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Minnelli Liza Minelli] was coming. The fund was raising over $700,000 USD<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQGdhe_jjTI/ Gala of the Stars' IG Raised Fund 2025]</ref>.

~~As of November 2024~~, ~~Sophia has 1.4M+ Instagram and 288k+ TikTok followers and 141K+ YouTube subscribers~~.

Her [https://www.instagram.com/dancemakersinc/reel/DQRxCXzEeIP/ senior class for Dance Makers Inc., in Nashville] was held on October 26, 2025.

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|2013

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| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://industrydanceawards.com/dancers-choice-awards/2014/nominees Industry Dance Awards 2014]</ref>

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|2015

| 2015

| Industry Dance Awards

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| YAGP ~~nationals~~

| YAGP Nationals

| Silver Metal - Junior Contemporary Dance

| Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham - "Path"

| style="background:silver;" |Silver

| style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/ YAGP 2016 NY]</ref>

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| 2025

| Industry Dance Awards

| Breakthrough Artist Award

| Sophia Lucia

| style="background:lightgreen;" |Won

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For all inquiries not as dancer, choreographer or Guinness World Record Holder:

Email: sophialuciaproductions@gmail.com

Phone:+1-818-208-0359

[https://www.instagram.com/p/DKPtJRDJ03F/ Reel]

See also dance studios and agencies in infobox top right for contacts.

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*When she was asked if she ever get nervous, she answered: "''"All the time. I’m a very anxious person and I’ve had to overcome a lot of things, but nerves never go away.''"

*"''Dance world is really tricky. It's really unhealthy. There is so many unhealthy people in the dance world. There are a lot of toxic people and there are a lot of people, they want not be supportive. And it want not to be a very supportive community. "It's seems to be supportive". Everyone says they are supportive to each other, but they are really not. Everyone is just out to get, what is best for them. And when you are succeeding and they are not, they are not really happy for you and vise versa. That how it is. There was like I felt like there is not a lot of support around me and I felt like because I had so much success at the young age that people just cannot stand it. That's fine, but it made it really hard for me. Beyond that, there is a lot of body image issues that come being in the dance world, whether or not is praised, said there are gone or that happened any more, it does! I gone through every dance struggle you could possibly imagine and every dance struggle I ever had, people told me I have to lose weight and I was this big *showing a cycle with tumb and pointing finger*. ... It took me really a long time to learn to be mental stable, but how you can do that is with a good support system and really try to stay grounded, and know a lot of stuff in the dance world then don't mean anything to you in a few years. I know what was a big deal for me then is not a big deal for me now. Winning that competition doesn't mean anything to me now. Nothing. Like, it's so interesting, because you move yourself in a situation, oh my god, everything seems so big. It's really not a big deal. So being much easier to yourself, because you do it because you love it and you cannot listen to any other noice. That's what I think. And that's I think how I get a healthy relationship with dance and being in the dance world. But it took me out of it so long. Hmm I was like, "I destroyed my fandom.", I guess you might can say. - Not you, because you guys are here. You guys are so awesome. - "I destroyed my fandom and my name in a sence", like many people told me that all the time, but my mental health was at risk and I think quiting dance for three years I did and remove myself from the dance world, was the best thing I had ever done for myself, because it told me how to be normal and it told me have a healthy relationship with myself. And I think that has to come always first and if not; take a step back and look at it for what it is and don't put not to much pressure on you to do or be a certain way and know that everything comes at time. ''" (Soph's Live Interview Aug 6, 2021 Instagram <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNhfBoJ-6q/ Soph's Live Interview Aug 6, 2021 Instagram]</ref>)

==Personal Life==

*As of October 2025, Sophia is dating Ethan Bloem. He is a hip-hop dance instructor and Sophia's third boyfriend. They had their fifth anniversary at end of June 2025.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZrUMLv8eS/ Sophia`s IG]</ref>

==Fun Facts==

*~~As of July 2022, Sophia has a boyfriend. They had their second anniversary at end of June.<ref>~~[https://www.instagram.com/p/~~CfZrUMLv8eS/ Sophia`s IG]<~~/~~ref> He is a hip-hop dance instructor and Sophia~~'s ~~third one~~.

*[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ4tPVBki9E/?img_index=1 Soph's November 11, 2025 smartphone drop.]

*Before Sophie broke the offically world record, she had broken it twice unoffically by posting in 2012 two videos on YouTube where she did [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmeyKXDegFI 40 pirouettes] and [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IMbB6bmjBxA 54 pirouettes] in row at the age of 9. Both videos went viral, so the idea came up to call Guiness Officials, financed by sponsorship of ''Kids Artistic Revue'' and ''California Kisses'', and the event was held at her home studio San Diego Dance Center in Poway in front of hundreds of observers.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5JY7LlRKwT/ Soph's IG 11th WR anniversary]</ref> She broke the official one in her first attempt. She managed 47 pirouettes on the first attempt, 48 on the second and 55 on her third.<ref>[https://www.worldrecordacademy.com/arts/most_consecutive_pirouettes_Sophia_Lucia_smash_Guinness_world_record_213392.html Most consecutive pirouettes: Sophia Lucia smash Guinness world record (VIDEO)]</ref> The previous Guinness Book world record was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKWStmq7mM done by 36 pirouettes] on Dec 9, 2005 held by Miss Oklahoma 2012 [https://missoklahoma.org/about/history/miss-oklahoma-2012-alicia-clifton/ Alicia Clifton] at Applause Studio in Oklahoma at the age of 13 and she was the first female dancer to enter the Guinness Book of World Records in this category. At age 18, University College freshman Alicia Clifton had two world records under her belt. Alicia is still holding the most [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo250jmBl6I fouettés] in 30 seconds by done 50 at Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China, on 19 December 2010.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-grandes-pirouettes-a-la-seconde-in-30-seconds-female-ballet Most grandes pirouettes a la seconde in 30 seconds (female)]</ref><ref>[https://www-oudaily-com/news/sooner-spins-her-way-into-world-record-book-for-dancing/article_9bb655e2-180e-5522-823b-86d0c3ce411c.html Sooner spins her way into world record book for dancing]</ref> Alicia got fame in many fields later, such as Runner-Up Miss America in 2013.<ref>[https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/2013/01/12/miss-oklahoma-is-second-runner-up-in-miss-america-pageant/61014636007/ Miss Oklahoma is second runner-up in Miss America Pageant]</ref>

*Sophia completed her first pirouette when she was 4. Completed 4 in row when she was 5, and kept going on. In 2020, she got asked, if she can do world record again these days. She answered, she could, but it would hurt her. When she was training to break the world record she was turn so fast and so much on daily basis that she started to break blood vessels in her hands. Her hands would turn purple, swell and itch if she tried to turn that fast now. She said for pirouettes it`s all about physics and science - spot and momentum. Still these days she can do 8-9 pirouettes on call without moving a muscle in her face. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntcoPCc_So Can Sophia Lucia still do her 55 turns?]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1M1OXI0i1k Sophia Lucia Interview at her Guinness World Record Celebration]</ref>

*Soph got challenged a couple times about her record. E.g. on Dancepalooza she had a turn contest against break dancer Simrin Player, who turned on her head. Sophie did more turns, but Simrin did it longer. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVqdiieKhkk Dancepalooza - Sophia Lucia vs Simrin Player Turn Contest]</ref> She was also challenged many time by dance battles, such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqpNJxf-KdU Contemporary Eric at Industry Dance Awards 2014].

*When Russian National Champion, head coach and owner of RG school in San Diego - Champion Rhythmics [https://www.instagram.com/mashaweitz/ "Murder" Masha Weitz (Маша Калужская)] tortured Sophia in her training, she was pregnant with her daugther Zoya. Many years later, Soph got her hands on Zoya during her training and had in strange ways her revenge. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7NtxTP-uD/ Sophia*s IG Zoya]</ref> Still today some of Soph's students call her technique class torture hour. But against her own boyfriend she shows always some mercy and encouragement.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_A7eXKriU/?hl=en Sophia's IG teaching her bf turns]</ref> - "You did good, baby!"

*When Russian National Champion, head coach and owner of RG school in San Diego - Champion Rhythmics [https://www.instagram.com/mashaweitz/ "Murder" Masha Weitz (Маша Калужская)] tortured Sophia in her training, she was pregnant with her daugther Zoya. Many years later, Soph got her hands on Zoya during her training and had in strange ways her revenge. Soph [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7488844122158026014 is unsympathetic to stretch pains, because "Murdery" Masha tortured her two hours a day], therefore she never had injuries by that flexibility. - Yea, it's like my dad beat me every day and did'nt harm me on the long run. So it's ok I beat my son now. - Anyways, one point taken; competition and professional dancing is not for the snivelers. Deal with it or seek for something else. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7NtxTP-uD/ Sophia*s IG Zoya]</ref> Still today some of Soph's students call her technique class torture hour. But against her own boyfriend she shows always some mercy and encouragement.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_A7eXKriU/?hl=en Sophia's IG teaching her bf turns]</ref> - "You did good, baby!" - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DKNMdLSJrV2/ See what we mean]. If one of her students would be; two blocks, sitting on the leg and it's done. [https://youtu.be/GlWffeKH6EY?t=164 Or the Ip Man way ...]

*As of August 2021 she has 8 tatoos so far. Small pictos yet.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSuqTV_BNyv/?hl=en Sophia's IG Tats]</ref> But the number of youth sins are increasing fast.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C4qq8oLORcP/?img_index=2 Soph's IG Paris]</ref>

*Regarding Soph, her dance teacher insulted her at the MDA over two years. Here some quotes by Sophia <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7116325855466425642?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7116325855466425642 Soph's TikTok]</ref>:

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*The day before the performance of the fifth dance in Varna, Jack and Sophia had an huge argument. Due that Soph wasn't planning to turning up at all, but she changed her mind. They apologized and made it in 10 min before they had to performed. - Pro dance is pro dance.

* It makes her pissed, when dancers appeared constantly misdressed or unequipped in her classes or on conventioned. <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7424256560517467435] Soph's TikTok Papiss]</ref> So dear students, don't forget clothing and shoes for change according of style or mistress gets angry.

* It makes her pissed, when dancers appeared constantly misdressed or unequipped in her classes or on conventioned. <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7424256560517467435 Soph's TikTok Papiss]</ref> So dear students, don't forget clothing and shoes for change according of style or mistress gets angry.

* An international alternative for Ballet (classic and contemporary) to Varna IBC for youth dancers (15-18, ~~so Sophia~~ would be too young again at that time) is the [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/ ~~Prix de~~ Lausanne] ~~in Switzerland~~ - [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/wp-content/uploads/~~2024~~/10/~~2025-selected~~-~~candidates~~-~~1-1~~.pdf 2025 Selected Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=~~oPpFjRj2smY~~ Day 6 – ~~FINALS 2024~~], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=~~KTXg5KXUulM Prix de Lausanne~~ 2025 – Day 1 – ~~Morning~~],[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0f73cJFN3U ~~Prix de Lausanne~~ 2025 – Day 2 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEynmCQGKCY ~~Prix de Lausanne~~ 2025 – Day 2 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEvym9EUkU ~~Prix de Lausanne~~ 2025 – Day 3 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkE3WRHvXo ~~Prix de Lausanne~~ 2025 – Day 3 – Afternoon] .

* An international alternative for Ballet (classic and contemporary) to [https://varna-ibc.org/ Varna IBC], which seems to be [https://www.dancemagazine.com/varna-ibc/#gsc.tab=0 inactive since 2020], for youth dancers is the [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/ Prix de Lausanne] in Switzerland. Entry is reserved for young student-dancers, aged 15 through 18, who have not yet been in professional employment and open to candidates of all nationalities. So Soph would be too young again at that time, further she was already pro. Currently, participants are required to submit a 15–20 min digital file recording showing them performing a combination of barre and centre-work exercises in a studio environment and pay a registration fee in CHF (150 CHF in 2024), but for 2025, thanks to generous sponsors, the Prix de Lausanne can offer financial support to candidates who may be in need. Applicants must contact the Prix de Lausanne to communicate their intention to apply for financial support before their registration for the video selection.<ref>[https://www.prixdelausanne.org/practical_information/ Practical Information]</ref> The video selection jury panel, consisting of nine professionals from the dance world, gathered in Lausanne last weekend to watch all video submissions. There were 445 applicants (354 girls and 91 boys) from 42 countries who sent their videos. A total of 75 dancers (38 girls & 37 boys) have been selected via this process while 11 candidates had already been preselected. In total, 86 dancers (44 girls and 42 boys) from 23 countries were selected to participate in 2025. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_Lausanne Wikipedia]). - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpFjRj2smY Day 6 – FINALS 2024], [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/liste-candidats-prog2025.pdf 2025 Selected Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhxVjfMsrBA&list=PLe146Eh6XHuSspKnK6VixaDPA_EfVDDrK Meet the 2025 Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXg5KXUulM 2025 – Day 1 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4bLPFtB3w 2025 – Day 1 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0f73cJFN3U 2025 – Day 2 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEynmCQGKCY 2025 – Day 2 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEvym9EUkU 2025 – Day 3 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkE3WRHvXo 2025 – Day 3 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGswVrvAbeQ 2025 – Day 4 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnToTex-soY 2025 – Day 4 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2mQ3nda2o 2025 – Day 5 – Junior Selection], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psHSeQmIKC4 Day 5 – Senior Selection], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcvq_dayGiU 2025 – Day 6 – FINALS].

* Because it's arts and sports, not politics or war, we have to list as alternative the ''[https://benois.theatre.ru/english/ Prix Benois de la Danse]'' in Moscow as well. We hope one day our dancers will meet in Moscow again ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Benois_de_la_Danse Wikipedia]).

* If you struggling with these age limits too and cannot travel abroad, you can go to the [https://yagp.org/ Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)]. Age range is from 9 to 20 ([https://www.youtube.com/@YAGP YouTube], [https://yagp.org/competition/yagp-2025-us-canada-locations-and-dates/ Locations in North-America in 2025]). YAGP is now in 19 foreign countries as well - [https://yagp.org/competition/ygp-2024-2025-international-locations-dates/ 2024-2025 events].

==Additional Page==

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*[http://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia TikTok]

*[http://www.youtube.com/user/sophiamlucia YouTube]

*[https://www.facebook.com/people/Sophia-Lucia/pfbid02AZGXhBd4o7YEsdheR9jM4RzGwZcyjZhJuYcvqxQpGFDMLHzdoTSuWt34y55eH4hAl/?ref=_ig_profile_ac Facebook]

*[http://www.halloffamedance.com/halloffame/search.aspx?s=Sophia%20Lucia Hall of Fame Dance Videos]

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*[http://vimeo.com/156936922 Sophia in Sync]

*[http://vimeo.com/80948265 Sophia goes to her CK photoshoot]

===Fall Five Intensive Workshops===

*[https://www.fallfiveintensive.com/ Homepage]

*[http://www.instagram.com/fallfiveintensive/ Instagram]

*[https://www.tiktok.com/@fallfiveintensive TikTok]

*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lKxa4g90A DAC Partnership: Inside Fall Five Intensive with Sophia Lucia]

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 {{Infobox dancer
 |name = Sophia Maria Lucia
-|image = File:Sophia Lucia 2024.jpg
+|image = File:Sophia Lucia March 2025.jpg
 |gender = Female
 |age = {{age|2002|09|07}}
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 |hair color = Brown
 |school grade = High School Class of 2021 <br> College Class of 2025 (Bachelor in Psychology (major) - University of Arizona)
-|profession = Choreographer <br> Dancer <br> Dance Teacher <br> Actress <br> Singer <br> Model <br> Psychologist <br> Entrepreneur
+|profession = Choreographer <br> Dancer <br> Dance Teacher <br> Model <br> Psychologist <br> Entrepreneur
 |affiliations = Bloc Talent Agency (former) <br> Clear Talent Group <br> Unity Dance Ensemble <br> Paradigm Talent Agency
-|dance studios = San Diego Dance Centre (2004-2013) <br> Abby Lee Dance Company (2013) <br> RT Dance Academy (2013-2014) <br> Danceology Performing Arts Campus (2014-2015) <br> Master Ballet Academy (2015-2016) <br> Rhythmic Gymnastics School (2016-present) <br> PAVE School of the Arts (2021-2022) <br> Dance Lab OC (2022-present) <br> Adage Dance Center (2022-present)
+|dance studios = San Diego Dance Centre (2004-2013) <br> Abby Lee Dance Company (2013) <br> RT Dance Academy (2013-2014) <br> Danceology Performing Arts Campus (2014-2015) <br> Master Ballet Academy (2015-2016) <br> Rhythmic Gymnastics School (2016-present) <br> PAVE School of the Arts (2021-2022) <br> Dance Lab OC (2022-present) <br> Adage Dance Center (2022-present) <br> Avanti Dance Company (present) <ref>[https://www.avantidancecompany.com/youth-schedule/ ADC HP Youth Schedule]</ref>
 |titles = ''see below''
 |parents = Jaclyn Lucia (mother), IFBB Bikini Pro <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/jaclynlucia_/ Jaclyn Lucia IG]</ref><br />Michael Lucia (father)<br>Tiffani King <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/tiffaniking/ Tiffani King IG]</ref><br>Rachel Sebastian (her other real Dance Moms)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/rachel__sebastian/ Rachel Sebastian IG]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLPWHzqCFF/ Soph`s IG real dance moms]</ref>
 |siblings = Vinny Lucia (brother) <br> [[Gianna Mojonnier]] (cousin)
-|friends = [[Kalani Hilliker]] <br> Amber Hoffman <br> [[Camila Schwarz]] <br> [[Hayden Hopkins]] <br> [[Kaycee Rice]] <br> [[Kaeli Ware]] <br> [[Kylie Yamane]] <br> [[Everleigh Soutas]] <br> [[Mackenzie Ziegler]] <br> [[Maddie Ziegler]] <br> [[Autumn Miller]] <br> [[Ambry Mehr]] <br>[[Avery Gay]] <br> [[Asia Monet Ray]]
+|friends = Ethan Bloem (boyfriend)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/ethan.bloem/ Ethan Bloem's IG]</ref> <br> [[Kalani Hilliker]] <br> Amber Hoffman <br> [[Camila Schwarz]] <br> [[Hayden Hopkins]] <br> [[Kaycee Rice]] <br> [[Kaeli Ware]] <br> [[Kylie Yamane]] <br> [[Everleigh Soutas]] <br> [[Mackenzie Ziegler]] <br> [[Maddie Ziegler]] <br> [[Autumn Miller]] <br> [[Ambry Mehr]] <br>[[Avery Gay]] <br> [[Asia Monet Ray]]
 |pets = 2+ cats
 |nicknames = Soph <br> Sophie
-}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is an international, established, professional dance teacher, former ballerina, industry dancer and a multi-talented, still national working choreographer, model<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CgneqgSJsEk/ Sophie`s IG - Director of Photography Claudio A. Robles 🇸🇻]</ref>, entrepreneur (startup phase), singer and actress<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ IMDb Sophia Lucia]</ref>, a psychologist (unconfirmed), and a philanthropist with Italian, Irish, German, French and Swedish roots living in Los Angeles, CA.
+}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is an internationally established, multi-awarded professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer, choreographer, model<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CgneqgSJsEk/ Sophie`s IG - Director of Photography Claudio A. Robles 🇸🇻]</ref>, entrepreneur, psychologist, and a philanthropist with Italian, Irish, German, French and Swedish roots living in Los Angeles.
-She is holding the official Guinness Book world record by completing 55 consecutive pirouettes at the San Diego Dance Center in Poway, California, USA on 30 March 2013 at the age of 10.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/82089-most-consecutive-pirouettes-contemporary-dance#:~:text=The%20record%20for%20the%20most,USA%20on%2030%20March%202013. Guinness Book WR Lucia]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1JLuv5WVQ Sophia Lucia - Record Breaker]</ref> - Currently she wants to teach dancing around the world.<ref>[https://www.moveitdance.co.uk/artist-list/sophia-lucia/ Sophia Lucia Bio Move IT HP]</ref>
+She is holding the official Guinness Book world record by completing 55 consecutive pirouettes at the San Diego Dance Center in Poway, California, USA on 30 March 2013 at the age of 10.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/82089-most-consecutive-pirouettes-contemporary-dance#:~:text=The%20record%20for%20the%20most,USA%20on%2030%20March%202013. Guinness Book WR Lucia]</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b1JLuv5WVQ Sophia Lucia - Record Breaker]</ref> She started managing her own founded [https://www.instagram.com/fallfiveintensive/ Fall Five Intensive workshops] ([https://www.fallfiveintensive.com/ HP], [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7552986592789433630 Promo]) since 2023, frequently running over two days for juniors and seniors. In last year as of October 2025, she worked often in European and Canadian cities, such as London, Paris, Calgary and Cracow, mostly as instructor or choreographer on major dance events. Meanwhile she is considered as part of the American Dance High Society.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/galaofthestars/ Gala of the Stars' IG]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKf7_GEgce/?img_index=1 Soph's IG DAC GOTS 2025]</ref>
-As a young dancer and choreographer, she was most recently trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She had danced and was trained before by San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. So Sophia thinks she was basically born into dance.<ref>[https://www.naludamagazine.com/sophia-lucia-interview/ Naluda Magazine Exclusive interview with Sophia Lucia]</ref>
+As a young dancer and choreographer, she was mostly trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona, but she didn't graduate and aborted her education. She had danced and was trained before by San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. So Sophia thinks she was basically born into dance.<ref>[https://www.naludamagazine.com/sophia-lucia-interview/ Naluda Magazine Exclusive interview with Sophia Lucia]</ref>
 She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was two years old until she was 11 to be one day on Lifetime’s ''Dance Moms'' show. She is trained in Ballet, Tap, Jazz, Lyrical, Ballroom, and Contemporary. Sophia moved to Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of twelve to train with Master Ballet Academy and later danced with the Phoenix Ballet and Ballet Arizona. When she was 8 she was already dancing 55 hours per week. Still today she has an average 9-10 hours working day.
-She did commercials, such as, for McDonald's<ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t91zy Sophia Lucia in Monster High McDonald's Commercial]</ref>, Old Navy<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ABPgy7Exw Sophs Old Navy Commercial]</ref>, Party City and some promos for the Shirley Temple Story and A Nutcracker Christmas movies she was featured.
+She did commercials, such as, for [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bMmfAlhgHE McDonald's]<ref>[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2t91zy Sophia Lucia in Monster High McDonald's Commercial]</ref>, Old Navy<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91ABPgy7Exw Sophs Old Navy Commercial]</ref>, Party City and some promos for the Shirley Temple Story and A Nutcracker Christmas movies she was featured.
 In 2015, Sophia participated in a YouTube series named "Teen Dance Challenge" ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfMBFE_odUk Ep10 Sophia Lucia HD], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctv5T6sJCiQ EP9 Sophia BTS HD]) alongside [[Talia Seitel]], [[Lucy Vallely]], [[Chloe East]] and [[Sean Lew]]. In December, she was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz10oGO4osU announced as the winner] by Instagram online voting of the grand prize of a one year scholarship at the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City worth $30,000 USD, including full tuition and housing.
-In 2016, Sophia helped her dance partner [https://www.instagram.com/wmjack_beckham/ William Jackson Beckham], a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Company, Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits from 15 to 19 (reg 1.2, because under 15 she violates the Bulgarian (EU) child labor laws; it`s death serious pro in Varna) and competitors may participate also with a partner who is not a competitor at all, when they perform a pas-de-deux or contemporary choreography where more than one performer is required (reg 1.7) <ref>[https://varna-ibc.org/competition/regulations/ Varna IBC regulations]</ref> - at her age of 13 took him home the Gold Medal and the First Class Distinction Diploma in Junior Division <ref>[http://balletfederation.com/?p=912&lang=en IBFC - We are proud to announce the winners of the XXVII International Ballet Competition – Varna]</ref>  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZN0NU0HJ9M first dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZgAzWiAQA second dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2MPOGcue8 third dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAj5T7BDww fourth dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKJQ7DIYDk fifth dance]) at [https://varna-ibc.org/ XXVI. Varna IBC 2016] and were representing the USA. They had trained and rehearsed about 8 months full-time for this event. But being the youngest performing at Varna IBC, she was awarded with a Special Bounty Partnership Award.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxz6fl1NYqE Awards to Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham @VARNA IBC 2016]</ref> Afterwards, Soph is considering herself a professional dancer. Jack won also the “Promising Young Dancer” award in Varna. As of 2018, he was promoted to main company at the Tusla Ballet in Oklahoma. <ref>[https://tulsaballet.org/company/dancers/william-jackson-beckham/ Tusla ballet JP Jack Beckham]</ref>  Sadly he quited pro ballet dance later, maybe due injuries and has became a pilot. To understand, the Varna IBC is considered as the "Olympics of Professional Ballet and Contemporary Dancing", it was the very first professional ballet competition, which is hold every two years since 1964 (2020 was an exception due Coronavirus and lack of sponsorship). About 40 countries send up 150 of their most promising young dancers to the Bulgarian city. The faculty of Varna IBC are members of the best experts around the globe and also known as the toughest judges you can ever get, and because Ballet is an academic field in many countries, a lot have a professorship as well. So the Junior Winners don`t just win a medal, they get strait a First and Second Class Distinction Diploma. It´s like ''`how to get a college degree summa cum laude within 15 days`''. The most prestigious Ballet companies and theaters on the world request the winners become a member in their ensembles, because many winners of the Varna IBC, such as, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Patrick Dupont, Yassen Valchanov, Vladimir Derevyanko, Farukh Ruzimatov, Alla Mikhalchenko etc, became the world`s best and finest ballet dancers at their times. And to give outsiders a feeling how Ballet is rated. If you ask any pro dancers around the world about their open top 10 list of the best dancers of all time, the structure is always the same: Nine from Ballet plus Michael Jackson.
+In 2016, Sophia helped her dance partner [https://www.instagram.com/wmjack_beckham/ William Jackson Beckham], a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Company, Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits from 15 to 19 (reg 1.2, because under 15 she violates the Bulgarian (EU) child labor laws; it`s death serious pro in Varna) and competitors may participate also with a partner who is not a competitor at all, when they perform a pas-de-deux or contemporary choreography where more than one performer is required (reg 1.7) <ref>[https://varna-ibc.org/competition/regulations/ Varna IBC regulations]</ref> - at her age of 13 took him home the Gold Medal and the First Class Distinction Diploma in Junior Division <ref>[http://balletfederation.com/?p=912&lang=en IBFC - We are proud to announce the winners of the XXVII International Ballet Competition – Varna]</ref>  ([https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZN0NU0HJ9M first dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVZgAzWiAQA second dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW2MPOGcue8 third dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYAj5T7BDww fourth dance], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyKJQ7DIYDk fifth dance]) at [https://varna-ibc.org/ XXVI. Varna IBC 2016] and were representing the USA. They had trained and rehearsed about 8 months full-time for this event. But being the youngest performing at Varna IBC, she was awarded with a Special Bounty Partnership Award.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxz6fl1NYqE Awards to Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham @VARNA IBC 2016]</ref> Afterwards, Soph is considering herself a professional dancer. Jack won also the “Promising Young Dancer” award in Varna. As of 2018, he was promoted to main company at the Tusla Ballet in Oklahoma. <ref>[https://tulsaballet.org/company/dancers/william-jackson-beckham/ Tusla ballet JP Jack Beckham]</ref>  Sadly he quited pro ballet dance later, maybe due injuries and has became a pilot. To understand, the Varna IBC is considered as the "Olympics of Professional Ballet and Contemporary Dancing", it was the very first professional ballet competition, which was hold every two years from 1964 to 2019. After Coronavirus, lack of sponsorship and changes in the local organization, and now the war in Ukraine putting a damper on Black Sea tourism. So they are on pause currently. About 40 countries had send up 150 of their most promising young dancers to the Bulgarian city. The faculty of Varna IBC were members of the best experts around the globe and also known as the toughest judges you can ever get, and because Ballet is an academic field in many countries, a lot had a professorship as well. So the Junior Winners don`t just won a medal, they get strait a First and Second Class Distinction Diploma. It´s like ''`how to get a college degree summa cum laude within 15 days`''. The most prestigious Ballet companies and theaters on the world requested the winners become a member in their ensembles, because many winners of the Varna IBC, such as, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Natalia Makarova, Sylvie Guillem, Vladimir Vasiliev, Natalia Bessmertnova, Patrick Dupont, Yassen Valchanov, Vladimir Derevyanko, Farukh Ruzimatov, Alla Mikhalchenko etc, became the world`s best and finest ballet dancers at their times. And to give outsiders a feeling how Ballet is rated. If you ask any pro dancers around the world about their open top 10 list of the best dancers of all time, the structure is always the same: Nine from Ballet plus Michael Jackson.
 Soph got a lot of job offers around the world after the Varna IBC as well, including Broadway, but she had no idea how to use them at her young age. When the faculty of Varna IBC gave her the Special Bounty Partnership Award, they told her properly how talented she is and how she was unofficially rated, when she had been allowed officially to compete. So the 13 years old ambitious Sophia, who was dragged through the TV shows as World Record Holder when she was ten and had never school class mates in a regular school due homeschooling to keep her grounded, couldn't resist, started bragging and exaggerated the event a little bit and stick in it for years: "... when I won the Gold Medal in Varna ..."(Interview in 2019). And then it got a dynamic by its own, when people framed her words  in her resume in Gold as well and distributed it around the world and then suddenly US Ballet Officials knocked on her door and asked her, if she minded to represent the US worldwide abroad as the "Gold Medal winner of Varna". And Sophie took event by event and kept silence about some small details.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hdVxfsA-VM4 55 Questions With Sophia Lucia]</ref> But since her young success in the Ballet industry, she’s had the honor to perform worldwide representing the USA as a "Gold Medalist".<ref>[https://www.joffreyballetschool.com/sophia-lucia/ Joffrey Ballet HP]</ref> <ref>[https://celebritydance.com/conventions/sophia-lucia/ Celebrity dance HP]</ref>
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 On July 2021, she moved to LA after she lost her job due COVID-19 and actually had to leave her own house until December, because she couldn't afford it any longer. She would prefer Orange Country, where she got a new fantastic job. She hates LA and would like to go to Orange Country <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNhfBoJ-6q/ Soph#s IG Instagram Live 8/5/21]</ref>, but actually her boyfriend moved later to her when she was 19.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAxktYqjL7/ body & soul]</ref>
-As of August 2022, Soph spends her time between her three lives - being a dance teacher, her personal career mostly as dancer, choreographer, and model, and enjoying her youth with family and friends with money on her bank account by doing what she loves.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CYSIF3fozdA/?hl=en Soph's IG Her three lifes]</ref> A lot of potential means a lot of possible different paths and directions and also a lot of tough choices. So the [https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-self-concept-2795865 self-concept] of Sophia Lucia, who she really is and what she really wants long term, is still TBD. On October 2022, she made it quite clear that who she really is will never go public.<ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7160405911155084586?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7160405911155084586 xoxo gossip girl - <3]</ref> It remains what she wants.
+So on February 14, 2023 (Valentine's Day), Soph and Ambry started their podcast ''[https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ou3CGNkvIsmAXeTtqUzKa The Sitch]'' on Spotify and Apple. A podcast about helping women navigate their 20s and create their dream life: chatting about all things dating, self-worth, confidence, body image, the dance world, friendship & more. Sharing advice, juicy girl chats & tips. On August 7, she revealed by a podium interview the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fyG4YFRjc Realities Of Performing Professionally During Childhood] (brief youth experiences, turn techniques and her planned upcoming company for kids in safe, pressureless, non-competitive environment) at the [https://hdedance.com/ Hollywood Dance Experience] convention 2023. She choreographed also for the [https://joffrey.org/ Joffery Ballett].On November 30, she described a typical week: Monday to Wednesday 9-10 hours teaching, diving back to LA, cooking dinner, watching videos or TV with her boyfriend and on Fridays, she is flying to conventions or different countries and spent a lot of her time lonely at the airports or in planes. But she loves her job and hopes her hard work brings her someday to bigger success beyond teaching - A typical [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7429781200232926506 Thursday Vlog on October 10].
-So on February 14, 2023 (Valentine's Day), Soph and Ambry started their podcast ''[https://open.spotify.com/show/2Ou3CGNkvIsmAXeTtqUzKa The Sitch]'' on Spotify and Apple. A podcast about helping women navigate their 20s and create their dream life: chatting about all things dating, self-worth, confidence, body image, the dance world, friendship & more. Sharing advice, juicy girl chats & tips. On August 7, she revealed by a podium interview the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7fyG4YFRjc Realities Of Performing Professionally During Childhood] (brief youth experiences, turn techniques and her planned upcoming company for kids in safe, pressureless, non-competive environment) at the [https://hdedance.com/ Hollywood Dance Experience] convention 2023. She choreographed also for the [https://joffrey.org/ Joffery Ballett].On November 30, she described a typical week: Monday to Wendesday 9-10 hours teaching, diving back to LA, cooking dinner, watching videos or TV with her boyfriend and on Fridays, she is flying to conventions or different countries and spent a lot of her time lonely at the airports or in planes. But she loves her job and hopes her hard work brings her someday to bigger success beyond teaching - A typical [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7429781200232926506 Thursday Vlog on October 10].
+Between 15 - 17 March 2024, after a long time, she starts [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lhMhuOFuo/ teaching classes aboard again, beginning in London, UK] on the self-proclaimed ''"World's Biggest Dance Event"'', the [https://www.moveitdance.co.uk/ MOVE IT Dance Show] at [https://www.instagram.com/excellondon/ ExCeL London Event Center]. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C4d-AKKiUMo/?img_index=1 Soph's IG Move IT London]</ref> On October 9, 2024 she got [https://www.instagram.com/p/DA6nlC1zgHh/?img_index=1 invited as special guest to the Industry Dance Awards] and met Robert Hoffmann aka Contemporary Eric again. And she is still the [https://www.instagram.com/p/DBKAT1dCajb/ biggest kid on the floor]. She choreographed for the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FrsmfaS1wY Carneval concept video READY - the visual] and performed with her fellow dancers Kaya McAfee, Elle Dimos, Chelsea Brownie, Sarah Moore, Sarah Laskowski, Josephine Kylee Zarzosa, Maia Rogers, Meghan Ranahan and Soph Domino. On December 8, 2024 Soph continues her [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lKxa4g90A partnership with ''Dancers Against Cancer (DAC)'' and founded ''Fall Five Intensive''].
-Between 15 - 17 March 2024, after a long time, she starts [https://www.instagram.com/reel/C4lhMhuOFuo/ teaching classes aboard again, beginning in London, UK] on the self-proclaimed ''"World's Biggest Dance Event"'', the [https://www.moveitdance.co.uk/ MOVE IT Dance Show] at [https://www.instagram.com/excellondon/ ExCeL London Event Center]. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C4d-AKKiUMo/?img_index=1 Soph's IG Move IT London]</ref> On October 9, 2024 she got [https://www.instagram.com/p/DA6nlC1zgHh/?img_index=1 invited as special guest to the Industry Dance Awards] and met Robert Hoffmann aka Contemporary Eric again. And she is still the [https://www.instagram.com/p/DBKAT1dCajb/ biggest kid on the floor]. She choreographed for the [https://www.instagram.com/p/C_eP_IdyMlV/ Carneval concept video READY] (Youtube vids should be preferred, dear) and performed with her fellow dancers Kaya McAfee, Elle Dimos, Chelsea Brownie, Sarah Moore, Sarah Laskowski, Josephine Kylee Zarzosa, Maia Rogers, Meghan Ranahan and Soph Domino. On December 8, 2024 Soph continues her [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-lKxa4g90A partnership with ''Dancers Against Cancer (DAC)'' and ''Fall Five Intensive''].
+As of November 2024, Sophia has 1.4M+ Instagram and 288k+ TikTok followers and 141K+ YouTube subscribers.
+Soph in on the faculty of the [https://www.instagram.com/intriguedanceconvention/ ''Intrigue Dance Intensive Convention''] [https://www.gointrigue.com/tours/ Season 24/25] and is already announced for next [https://www.gointrigue.com/2025-2026-tour-dates/ Season 25/26]. On April 5, 2025 the was judge for the Olando, FL [https://www.instagram.com/intriguedanceconvention/reel/DIEiNMQOIvj/ ''Teen Continental Contemporary'' audition]. She wanted to point out this [https://www.instagram.com/_sophialucia/reel/DIHYsZ8SJIM/ unknown young talent here] in her junior class later. So we do. Between April 10-13, 2025 [https://www.instagram.com/p/DHv7mjLOwjs/ Soph is annouced as technique judge] on the famous [https://hitthefloor.ca/en/ ''Hit the Floor'' Dance Event] in Villé de Saint-Hyacinthe, Canada. Since 2010 the event has welcomed over 369,500 spectators, 84,000 dancers, 2,275 volunteers and 2,225 dance schools. This year the event was already in Gatineau - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swkh8CTB4N8 Show 2025], will be in Saint-Hyacinthe, and in Quebec on May 15-19, 2025. [https://www.instagram.com/p/DH4KbYTT_cr/ Sophia has prepared a show special with her fellows] - Devin Xander Waxman, Coco Williams, Chloe Lopina, Davyd, Sarah Moore and Kevin Lau - for it. On stage [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKr_UVoDldo SOPHIA LUCIA COLLECTIF | Hit The Floor Saint-Hyacinthe].
+On October 20, 2025 Sophie got the Industry Dance Award in the category [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQDv0IliD2T/ 'Breakthrough Artist Award'] presented by 2024 winner, the legendary [[Autumn Miller]] - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQH9D86Eqxg/?img_index=1 Sophia on the IDA2025], [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQPkcFiDnyr/?img_index=1 Sophia's impressions]. One day later, she was supporting the charity event of ''Dancer against Cancer (DAC)'' - ''Gala of the Stars'' - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DQKf7_GEgce/?img_index=1 Soph's impressions] being side-by-side with legends of [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOeEg4PTXEI 2024 Gala of the Stars | A Night of Dance, Philanthropy, and Inspiration]. Even [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liza_Minnelli Liza Minelli] was coming. The fund was raising over $700,000 USD<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQGdhe_jjTI/ Gala of the Stars' IG Raised Fund 2025]</ref>.
-As of November 2024, Sophia has 1.4M+ Instagram and 288k+ TikTok followers and 141K+ YouTube subscribers.
+Her [https://www.instagram.com/dancemakersinc/reel/DQRxCXzEeIP/ senior class for Dance Makers Inc., in Nashville] was held on October 26, 2025.
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+| YAGP Nationals
 | Silver Metal - Junior Contemporary Dance
 | Sophia Lucia and William Jackson Beckham - "Path"
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 | style="text-align:center;" | <ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/  YAGP 2016 NY]</ref>
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+| 2025
+| Industry Dance Awards
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 For all inquiries not as dancer, choreographer or Guinness World Record Holder:<br />
 Email: sophialuciaproductions@gmail.com<br />
+Phone:+1-818-208-0359 <br>
+[https://www.instagram.com/p/DKPtJRDJ03F/ Reel] <br>
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 *When she was asked if she ever get nervous, she answered: "''"All the time. I’m a very anxious person and I’ve had to overcome a lot of things, but nerves never go away.''"
 *"''Dance world is really tricky. It's really unhealthy. There is so many unhealthy people in the dance world. There are a lot of toxic people and there are a lot of people, they want not be supportive. And it want not to be a very supportive community. "It's seems to be supportive". Everyone says they are supportive to each other, but they are really not. Everyone is just out to get, what is best for them. And when you are succeeding and they are not, they are not really happy for you and vise versa. That how it is. There was like I felt like there is not a lot of support around me and I felt like because I had so much success at the young age that people just cannot stand it. That's fine, but it made it really hard for me. Beyond that, there is a lot of body image issues that come being in the dance world, whether or not is praised, said there are gone or that happened any more, it does! I gone through every dance struggle you could possibly imagine and every dance struggle I ever had, people told me I have to lose weight and I was this big *showing a cycle with tumb and pointing finger*. ... It took me really a long time to learn to be mental stable, but how you can do that is with a good support system and really try to stay grounded, and know a lot of stuff in the dance world then don't mean anything to you in a few years. I know what was a big deal for me then is not a big deal for me now. Winning that competition doesn't mean anything to me now. Nothing. Like, it's so interesting, because you move yourself in a situation, oh my god, everything seems so big. It's really not a big deal. So being much easier to yourself, because you do it because you love it and you cannot listen to any other noice. That's what I think. And that's I think how I get a healthy relationship with dance and being in the dance world. But it took me out of it so long. Hmm I was like, "I destroyed my fandom.", I guess you might can say. - Not you, because you guys are here. You guys are so awesome. - "I destroyed my fandom and my name in a sence", like many people told me that all the time, but my mental health was at risk and I think quiting dance for three years I did and remove myself from the dance world, was the best thing I had ever done for myself, because it told me how to be normal and it told me have a healthy relationship with myself. And I think that has to come always first and if not; take a step back and look at it for what it is and don't put not to much pressure on you to do or be a certain way and know that everything comes at time. ''" (Soph's Live Interview Aug 6, 2021 Instagram <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSNhfBoJ-6q/ Soph's Live Interview Aug 6, 2021 Instagram]</ref>)
+==Personal Life==
+*As of October 2025, Sophia is dating Ethan Bloem. He is a hip-hop dance instructor and Sophia's third boyfriend. They had their fifth anniversary at end of June 2025.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZrUMLv8eS/ Sophia`s IG]</ref>
 ==Fun Facts==
-*As of July 2022, Sophia has a boyfriend. They had their second anniversary at end of June.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CfZrUMLv8eS/ Sophia`s IG]</ref> He is a hip-hop dance instructor and Sophia's third one.
+*[https://www.instagram.com/p/DQ4tPVBki9E/?img_index=1 Soph's November 11, 2025 smartphone drop.]
 *Before Sophie broke the offically world record, she had broken it twice unoffically by posting in 2012 two videos on YouTube where she did [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmeyKXDegFI 40 pirouettes] and [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IMbB6bmjBxA 54 pirouettes] in row at the age of 9. Both videos went viral, so the idea came up to call Guiness Officials, financed by sponsorship of ''Kids Artistic Revue'' and ''California Kisses'', and the event was held at her home studio San Diego Dance Center in Poway in front of hundreds of observers.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/reel/C5JY7LlRKwT/ Soph's IG 11th WR anniversary]</ref> She broke the official one in her first attempt. She managed 47 pirouettes on the first attempt, 48 on the second and 55 on her third.<ref>[https://www.worldrecordacademy.com/arts/most_consecutive_pirouettes_Sophia_Lucia_smash_Guinness_world_record_213392.html Most consecutive pirouettes: Sophia Lucia smash Guinness world record (VIDEO)]</ref> The previous Guinness Book world record was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaKWStmq7mM  done by 36 pirouettes] on Dec 9, 2005 held by Miss Oklahoma 2012 [https://missoklahoma.org/about/history/miss-oklahoma-2012-alicia-clifton/ Alicia Clifton] at Applause Studio in Oklahoma at the age of 13 and she was the first female dancer to enter the Guinness Book of World Records in this category. At age 18, University College freshman Alicia Clifton had two world records under her belt. Alicia is still holding the most [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo250jmBl6I fouettés] in 30 seconds by done 50 at Guinness World Records Special in Beijing, China, on 19 December 2010.<ref>[https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-grandes-pirouettes-a-la-seconde-in-30-seconds-female-ballet Most grandes pirouettes a la seconde in 30 seconds (female)]</ref><ref>[https://www-oudaily-com/news/sooner-spins-her-way-into-world-record-book-for-dancing/article_9bb655e2-180e-5522-823b-86d0c3ce411c.html Sooner spins her way into world record book for dancing]</ref> Alicia got fame in many fields later, such as Runner-Up Miss America in 2013.<ref>[https://eu.oklahoman.com/story/entertainment/2013/01/12/miss-oklahoma-is-second-runner-up-in-miss-america-pageant/61014636007/ Miss Oklahoma is second runner-up in Miss America Pageant]</ref>
 *Sophia completed her first pirouette when she was 4. Completed 4 in row when she was 5, and kept going on. In 2020, she got asked, if she can do world record again these days. She answered, she could, but it would hurt her. When she was training to break the world record she was turn so fast and so much on daily basis that she started to break blood vessels in her hands. Her hands would turn purple, swell and itch if she tried to turn that fast now. She said for pirouettes  it`s all about physics and science - spot and momentum. Still these days she can do 8-9 pirouettes on call without moving a muscle in her face. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yntcoPCc_So Can Sophia Lucia still do her 55 turns?]</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1M1OXI0i1k Sophia Lucia Interview at her Guinness World Record Celebration]</ref>
 *Soph got challenged a couple times about her record. E.g. on Dancepalooza she had a turn contest against break dancer Simrin Player, who turned on her head. Sophie did more turns, but Simrin did it longer. <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AVqdiieKhkk Dancepalooza - Sophia Lucia vs Simrin Player Turn Contest]</ref> She was also challenged many time by dance battles, such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqpNJxf-KdU Contemporary Eric at Industry Dance Awards 2014].
-*When Russian National Champion, head coach and owner of RG school in San Diego - Champion Rhythmics [https://www.instagram.com/mashaweitz/ "Murder" Masha Weitz (Маша Калужская)] tortured Sophia in her training, she was pregnant with her daugther Zoya. Many years later, Soph got her hands on Zoya during her training and had in strange ways her revenge. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7NtxTP-uD/ Sophia*s IG Zoya]</ref> Still today some of Soph's students call her technique class torture hour. But against her own boyfriend she shows always some mercy and encouragement.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_A7eXKriU/?hl=en Sophia's IG teaching her bf turns]</ref> - "You did good, baby!"
+*When Russian National Champion, head coach and owner of RG school in San Diego - Champion Rhythmics [https://www.instagram.com/mashaweitz/ "Murder" Masha Weitz (Маша Калужская)] tortured Sophia in her training, she was pregnant with her daugther Zoya. Many years later, Soph got her hands on Zoya during her training and had in strange ways her revenge. Soph [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7488844122158026014 is unsympathetic to stretch pains, because "Murdery" Masha tortured her two hours a day], therefore she never had injuries by that flexibility. - Yea, it's like my dad beat me every day and did'nt harm me on the long run. So it's ok I beat my son now. - Anyways, one point taken; competition and professional dancing is not for the snivelers. Deal with it or seek for something else. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cf7NtxTP-uD/ Sophia*s IG Zoya]</ref> Still today some of Soph's students call her technique class torture hour. But against her own boyfriend she shows always some mercy and encouragement.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/Cb_A7eXKriU/?hl=en Sophia's IG teaching her bf turns]</ref> - "You did good, baby!" - [https://www.instagram.com/p/DKNMdLSJrV2/ See what we mean]. If one of her students would be; two blocks, sitting on the leg and it's done. [https://youtu.be/GlWffeKH6EY?t=164 Or the Ip Man way ...]
 *As of August 2021 she has 8 tatoos so far. Small pictos yet.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CSuqTV_BNyv/?hl=en Sophia's IG Tats]</ref> But the number of youth sins are increasing fast.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/C4qq8oLORcP/?img_index=2 Soph's IG Paris]</ref>
 *Regarding Soph, her dance teacher insulted her at the MDA over two years. Here some quotes by Sophia <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7116325855466425642?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=7116325855466425642 Soph's TikTok]</ref>:
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 *The day before the performance of the fifth dance in Varna, Jack and Sophia had an huge argument. Due that Soph wasn't planning to turning up at all, but she changed her mind. They apologized and made it in 10 min before they  had to performed. - Pro dance is pro dance.
-* It makes her pissed, when dancers appeared constantly misdressed or unequipped in her classes or on conventioned. <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7424256560517467435] Soph's TikTok Papiss]</ref> So dear students, don't forget clothing and shoes for change according of style or mistress gets angry.
+* It makes her pissed, when dancers appeared constantly misdressed or unequipped in her classes or on conventioned. <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7424256560517467435 Soph's TikTok Papiss]</ref> So dear students, don't forget clothing and shoes for change according of style or mistress gets angry.
-* An international alternative for Ballet (classic and contemporary) to Varna IBC for youth dancers (15-18, so Sophia would be too young again at that time) is the [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/ Prix de Lausanne] in Switzerland - [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/2025-selected-candidates-1-1.pdf 2025 Selected Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpFjRj2smY Day 6 – FINALS 2024], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXg5KXUulM Prix de Lausanne 2025 – Day 1 – Morning],[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0f73cJFN3U Prix de Lausanne 2025 – Day 2 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEynmCQGKCY Prix de Lausanne 2025 – Day 2 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEvym9EUkU Prix de Lausanne 2025 – Day 3 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkE3WRHvXo Prix de Lausanne 2025 – Day 3 – Afternoon] .
+* An international alternative for Ballet (classic and contemporary) to [https://varna-ibc.org/ Varna IBC], which seems to be [https://www.dancemagazine.com/varna-ibc/#gsc.tab=0 inactive since 2020], for youth dancers is the [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/ Prix de Lausanne] in Switzerland. Entry is reserved for young student-dancers, aged 15 through 18, who have not yet been in professional employment and open to candidates of all nationalities. So Soph would be too young again at that time, further she was already pro.  Currently, participants are required to submit a 15–20 min digital file recording showing them performing a combination of barre and centre-work exercises in a studio environment and pay a registration fee in CHF (150 CHF in 2024), but for 2025, thanks to generous sponsors, the Prix de Lausanne can offer financial support to candidates who may be in need. Applicants must contact the Prix de Lausanne to communicate their intention to apply for financial support before their registration for the video selection.<ref>[https://www.prixdelausanne.org/practical_information/ Practical Information]</ref> The video selection jury panel, consisting of nine professionals from the dance world, gathered in Lausanne last weekend to watch all video submissions. There were 445 applicants (354 girls and 91 boys) from 42 countries who sent their videos. A total of 75 dancers (38 girls & 37 boys) have been selected via this process while 11 candidates had already been preselected. In total, 86 dancers (44 girls and 42 boys) from 23 countries were selected to participate in 2025. ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_de_Lausanne Wikipedia]). - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPpFjRj2smY Day 6 – FINALS 2024], [https://www.prixdelausanne.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/liste-candidats-prog2025.pdf 2025 Selected Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhxVjfMsrBA&list=PLe146Eh6XHuSspKnK6VixaDPA_EfVDDrK Meet the 2025 Candidates], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTXg5KXUulM 2025 – Day 1 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SF4bLPFtB3w 2025 – Day 1 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0f73cJFN3U 2025 – Day 2 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEynmCQGKCY 2025 – Day 2 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwEvym9EUkU 2025 – Day 3 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfkE3WRHvXo 2025 – Day 3 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGswVrvAbeQ 2025 – Day 4 – Morning], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnToTex-soY 2025 – Day 4 – Afternoon], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cb2mQ3nda2o 2025 – Day 5 – Junior Selection], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psHSeQmIKC4 Day 5 – Senior Selection], [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qcvq_dayGiU 2025 – Day 6 – FINALS].
+* Because it's arts and sports, not politics or war, we have to list as alternative the ''[https://benois.theatre.ru/english/ Prix Benois de la Danse]'' in Moscow as well. We hope one day our dancers will meet in Moscow again ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Benois_de_la_Danse Wikipedia]).
+* If you struggling with these age limits too and cannot travel abroad, you can go to the [https://yagp.org/ Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP)]. Age range is from 9 to 20 ([https://www.youtube.com/@YAGP YouTube], [https://yagp.org/competition/yagp-2025-us-canada-locations-and-dates/ Locations in North-America in 2025]). YAGP is now in 19 foreign countries as well - [https://yagp.org/competition/ygp-2024-2025-international-locations-dates/ 2024-2025 events].
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 *[http://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia TikTok]
 *[http://www.youtube.com/user/sophiamlucia YouTube]
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 *[http://www.halloffamedance.com/halloffame/search.aspx?s=Sophia%20Lucia Hall of Fame Dance Videos]
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 *[http://vimeo.com/156936922 Sophia in Sync]
 *[http://vimeo.com/80948265 Sophia goes to her CK photoshoot]
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