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}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is a young dancer and choreographer who most recently trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has previously danced and trained with San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. She is holding the Guinness Book world record ~~for the most consecutive pirouettes~~ by completing 55 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> In 2022, Sophia is an international established, professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer and a still national working model<ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7108445160442252590?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Sophie`s TikTok Photoshooting]</ref> and actress <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ Sophia Lucia IMDb]</ref>.

}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is a young dancer and choreographer who most recently trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has previously danced and trained with San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. She is holding the Guinness Book world record by completing 55 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> In 2022, Sophia is an international established, professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer and a still national working model<ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7108445160442252590?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Sophie`s TikTok Photoshooting]</ref> and actress <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ Sophia Lucia IMDb]</ref>.

She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was 2 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. A year later, Sophia helped her dance partner William Jackson Beckham, a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Co., Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits form 15 to 19 (reg 1.2) 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. 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> 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 ~~toughes~~ 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 in the world request the winners become a member in their essembles, 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 outsidern 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.

She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was 2 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. A year later, Sophia helped her dance partner William Jackson Beckham, a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Co., Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits form 15 to 19 (reg 1.2) 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. 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> 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 in the world request the winners become a member in their essembles, 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 outsidern 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.

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 inoffically rated, when she had been officially competed. So the 13 year ambitious Sophia, who was dragged through the TV shows as World Record Holder by completing 55 pirouettes when she was ten and had never school class mates in a regular school due homeschooling to keep her grounded, could resist and 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 Gold too in her resume and deployed it around the world and then US Ballet Officials knocked on her door to 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>

Sophia and her partner went on and received a Silver and Gold Medal at [https://yagp.org/ YAGP nationals] in New York City.<ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/ YAGP 2016 NY]</ref> After then she made her acting debut in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_Myn9U18w Hallmark’s “A Nutcracker Christmas],” portraying a young ballerina with aspirations to become a prima ballerina. During her time filming, she continued to train and dance with the National Ballet of Canada. Since her young success in the Ballet industry, she’s had the honor to perform worldwide representing the USA as a Gold Medalist.

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 |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]]
 |nicknames = Soph <br> Sophie
-}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is a young dancer and choreographer who most recently trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has previously danced and trained with San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. She is holding the Guinness Book world record for the most consecutive pirouettes by completing 55 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> In 2022, Sophia is an international established, professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer and a still national working model<ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7108445160442252590?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Sophie`s TikTok Photoshooting]</ref> and actress <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ Sophia Lucia IMDb]</ref>.
+}}'''Sophia Maria Lucia''' (born on September 7, 2002 in San Diego, California), is a young dancer and choreographer who most recently trained at Master Ballet Academy in Scottsdale, Arizona. She has previously danced and trained with San Diego Dance Centre and Danceology Performing Arts Campus, both owned by her cousins, Kristen Hibbs and Nicole Lucia respectively. She is holding the Guinness Book world record by completing 55 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> In 2022, Sophia is an international established, professional dance teacher, ballerina, industry dancer and a still national working model<ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7108445160442252590?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1 Sophie`s TikTok Photoshooting]</ref> and actress <ref>[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4955321/ Sophia Lucia IMDb]</ref>.
-She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was 2 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. A year later, Sophia helped her dance partner William Jackson Beckham, a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Co., Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits form 15 to 19 (reg 1.2) 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. 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> 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 toughes 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 in the world request the winners become a member in their essembles, 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 outsidern 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.
+She started at San Diego Dance Centre when she was 2 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. A year later, Sophia helped her dance partner William Jackson Beckham, a promising young dancer for the Sylvia Co., Japan, 16 at that time, out of competition - because she was under age limits form 15 to 19 (reg 1.2) 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. 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> 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 in the world request the winners become a member in their essembles, 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 outsidern 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.
+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 inoffically rated, when she had been officially competed. So the 13 year ambitious Sophia, who was dragged through the TV shows as World Record Holder by completing 55 pirouettes when she was ten and had never school class mates in a regular school due homeschooling to keep her grounded, could resist and 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 Gold too in her resume and deployed it around the world and then US Ballet Officials knocked on her door to 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>
 Sophia and her partner went on and received a Silver and Gold Medal at [https://yagp.org/ YAGP nationals] in New York City.<ref>[https://yagp.org/yagp-2016-new-york-ny-winners/ YAGP 2016 NY]</ref> After then she made her acting debut in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vR_Myn9U18w Hallmark’s “A Nutcracker Christmas],” portraying a young ballerina with aspirations to become a prima ballerina. During her time filming, she continued to train and dance with the National Ballet of Canada. Since her young success in the Ballet industry, she’s had the honor to perform worldwide representing the USA as a Gold Medalist.