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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 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> | ||
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. | 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 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. | ||
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She has earned several National Champion Dance Titles, such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fRCGa2wPQ The Dance Awards’s Junior Best Dancer 2014]. From a young age, she has been featured in numerous television shows such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZKMSBo4Ic ‘Dancing with the Stars] and she got the honor to perform on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS88fsRgOM The Finale],’ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAf8kxr8cyo ‘So You Think You Can Dance (Ukraine),’] - because for SYTYCD USA she had to be at least 18. Age limits were such fun killers in Soph`s career, but on January 2016 Sophia auditioned for ''So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation''. Her appearance was televised on the show's season premiere without that age limits. She made it past the audition stage, but did not get past the Academy round, as [[Ruby Castro]] was chosen over her. She performed also Disney’s hit show ''Shake it Up'', ''X-Factor'', Nickelodeon’s ''Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'' and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVa2lyUkRy4 ''America's Got Talent''], plus several talk shows like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAITNfwN1U ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVTiLxbdPOU ''The Ricki Lake Show''], to name a few. She made her film debut in 2010 as child star icon, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pcUEmnGX2g Shirley Temple] in the Fox Legacy Movie ''The Shirley Temple Story''. That Sophie got chosen was not a fluke, because when she was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwhcyGgDE_A first time covering Shirley she was two]. | She has earned several National Champion Dance Titles, such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2fRCGa2wPQ The Dance Awards’s Junior Best Dancer 2014]. From a young age, she has been featured in numerous television shows such as [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXZKMSBo4Ic ‘Dancing with the Stars] and she got the honor to perform on [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBS88fsRgOM The Finale],’ [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAf8kxr8cyo ‘So You Think You Can Dance (Ukraine),’] - because for SYTYCD USA she had to be at least 18. Age limits were such fun killers in Soph`s career, but on January 2016 Sophia auditioned for ''So You Think You Can Dance: The Next Generation''. Her appearance was televised on the show's season premiere without that age limits. She made it past the audition stage, but did not get past the Academy round, as [[Ruby Castro]] was chosen over her. She performed also Disney’s hit show ''Shake it Up'', ''X-Factor'', Nickelodeon’s ''Nicky, Ricky, Dicky & Dawn'' and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVa2lyUkRy4 ''America's Got Talent''], plus several talk shows like [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqAITNfwN1U ''The Ellen DeGeneres Show''] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVTiLxbdPOU ''The Ricki Lake Show''], to name a few. She made her film debut in 2010 as child star icon, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pcUEmnGX2g Shirley Temple] in the Fox Legacy Movie ''The Shirley Temple Story''. That Sophie got chosen was not a fluke, because when she was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwhcyGgDE_A first time covering Shirley she was two]. | ||
Sophia got homeschooled since class one, got her high school diploma and went first to a community college for the next two years, because she was only 16 when she graduated and not ready to live by herself in New York yet, before she has finally transferred to a four-years university, when is was 18. She stated she will majoring in psychology at the New York University (NYU).<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/a8y1h3/sophia_lucia_is_going_to_college_and_majors_in/ Sophia Lucia`s interview about her education]</ref> Ahhh... self-diagnostics. Her high school diploma is just recognized outside California since she graduated college (see also [https://www.chspe.org/about CHSPE]) and as to remember the corona quarantine measurements peaked at that time, especially in New York City, which had for sure an effect on her education as well. On March 2023, she said she went actually to the University of Arizona at the age of 18. The graduated as Bachelor with 20. She wanted go to on Master, but she wanted to dance and dropped it. <ref>[https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QKaapgxGmIdA7A3xnFkCM The Sitch - College Culture]</ref> She | Sophia got homeschooled since class one, but she visited about a year a private school at the age of 15, but she felt she doesn't fit in and noone really would understand her and she felt lonely, and it would made it acually worse. She got her high school diploma at the age of 16 and went first to a community college for the next two years, because she was only 16 when she graduated and not ready to live by herself in New York yet, before she has finally transferred to a four-years university, when is was 18. She stated she will majoring in psychology at the New York University (NYU).<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/a8y1h3/sophia_lucia_is_going_to_college_and_majors_in/ Sophia Lucia`s interview about her education]</ref> Ahhh... self-diagnostics. Her high school diploma is just recognized outside California since she graduated college (see also [https://www.chspe.org/about CHSPE]) and as to remember the corona quarantine measurements peaked at that time, especially in New York City, which had for sure an effect on her education as well. On March 2023, she said she went actually to the University of Arizona at the age of 18. She was studing psychology and her goal was to become a sportspychologist and work with child prodigies. The graduated as Bachelor with 20. She wanted go to on Master, but she wanted to dance and dropped it. <ref>[https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QKaapgxGmIdA7A3xnFkCM The Sitch - College Culture]</ref> She studied psychology. <ref>[https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/7307389667035598126?lang=de-DE Soph's TikTok a little bit about me]</ref> | ||
Soph danced also many times as a philanthropist, such as for the [http://www.mda.org Muscular Dystrophy Association] in Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon, and the former [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLuhyfBeeU Lily Sarah Grace Foundation], which supported once to establish practicing arts in classrooms, for cognitive development both together with many other dance talents like [[Kaycee Rice]] & [[Sierra Neudeck]] and KAR TV's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHOpr39hd4U I'm a Dancer Against Cancer] with Madison Curtis. She supported many charities. She thinks it’s very important to give back and is such an eye opening thing, which makes you grow as a human being and granted also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjqHMefLyA one of her hard core fans a wish]. | Soph danced also many times as a philanthropist, such as for the [http://www.mda.org Muscular Dystrophy Association] in Jerry Lewis' MDA Telethon, and the former [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVLuhyfBeeU Lily Sarah Grace Foundation], which supported once to establish practicing arts in classrooms, for cognitive development both together with many other dance talents like [[Kaycee Rice]] & [[Sierra Neudeck]] and KAR TV's [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHOpr39hd4U I'm a Dancer Against Cancer] with Madison Curtis. She supported many charities. She thinks it’s very important to give back and is such an eye opening thing, which makes you grow as a human being and granted also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHjqHMefLyA one of her hard core fans a wish]. | ||
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Since 2015, she started experiencing the more unpleasant side of being famous, like many young dance superstars when they are praised to the stratosphere and then struggling for oxygen, because nothing has remaining substance. They value of fame is what is left on daily basis in her booking schedule as return and Soph experienced often that the old, used sources went dry due her fame, while potentially new opportunities came bursting like bubbles - the typical pro dancers life. So she started teaching kids and it gave her some stability by doing some routine, and of course, the kids lionizing her, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAai_wcQH3k including this big one]. Then some people around her got envious, mean and used their elbows, while other used her for egoistic reasons, so that Soph resumed at the end; not many true friends are left and spent most of her free time by reading books, watching TV series and movies. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BdYdJYCgKV6/ Sophs IG hell 2017 year]</ref> In 2019, she described herself as a loner yet. | Since 2015, she started experiencing the more unpleasant side of being famous, like many young dance superstars when they are praised to the stratosphere and then struggling for oxygen, because nothing has remaining substance. They value of fame is what is left on daily basis in her booking schedule as return and Soph experienced often that the old, used sources went dry due her fame, while potentially new opportunities came bursting like bubbles - the typical pro dancers life. So she started teaching kids and it gave her some stability by doing some routine, and of course, the kids lionizing her, [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAai_wcQH3k including this big one]. Then some people around her got envious, mean and used their elbows, while other used her for egoistic reasons, so that Soph resumed at the end; not many true friends are left and spent most of her free time by reading books, watching TV series and movies. <ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/BdYdJYCgKV6/ Sophs IG hell 2017 year]</ref> In 2019, she described herself as a loner yet. | ||
But she experienced already some unpleasant mobbing at the Master Ballet Academy (MBA), because she got some weight and the males were too weak to lift her and gave her mean nicks. She was in Ballet always referred as "The Big One" except at the MBA, there was "The Fat One". Many girls when going into puberty they get a little chubby just by hormonal imbalance without changing any eating or activity habits, and it normalizes within one or two years, except they got bullied and start feeding because they are depressed now. So the MDA and others forced her to do constantly some diet just for training despite her nature. This bullshit happens often in the dance industry. The working atmosphere stayed toxic so that Soph felt like she met [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxf17yJsKs Gunnery Sergeant Hartman] and she wanted to quite pro dancing at all. Regarding Soph her dance teacher joined and insulted her on daily basis for two years (see fun facts). But also interesting, when Soph was younger she said she was pretty much best in every class and able to do any move and turning sequence put in her routine easily, but when she joined MBA, she said she was the worst in ballet in her class. She found it quite refreshing have people to look up to. - Again, this girl did Varna 1.5 years later. | But she experienced already some unpleasant mobbing at the Master Ballet Academy (MBA), because she got some weight and the males were too weak to lift her and gave her mean nicks. She was in Ballet always referred as "The Big One" except at the MBA, there was "The Fat One". Many girls when going into puberty they get a little chubby just by hormonal imbalance without changing any eating or activity habits, and it normalizes within one or two years, except they got bullied and start feeding because they are depressed now. So the MDA and others forced her to do constantly some diet just for training despite her nature. This bullshit happens often in the dance industry. The working atmosphere stayed toxic so that Soph felt like she met [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHxf17yJsKs Gunnery Sergeant Hartman] and she wanted to quite pro dancing at all. Regarding Soph her dance teacher joined and insulted her on daily basis for two years (see fun facts). She her experience at the MBA as really dark time. But also interesting, when Soph was younger she said she was pretty much best in every class and able to do any move and turning sequence put in her routine easily, but when she joined MBA, she said she was the worst in ballet in her class. She found it quite refreshing have people to look up to. - Again, this girl did Varna 1.5 years later. | ||
Soph wrote in 2022, she was starting to learn to let her body be whatever it’s going to be; and her metabolism as athlete does the rest, and maybe a little workout with her fitness trainer and bestie [[Ambry Mehr]].<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsJ4RGPFf2/ Sophia's IG about her weight.]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CPmCVYdnSyb/?hl=en Soph's IG Saweetie•Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat)]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CPTrmRHn33N/?hl=en Soph IG the dancing queen’s birthday]</ref> But fortunately for the dance world she just left MDA and aborted pro ballet industry dancing for her "mental health".<ref> [https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/7oun6a/sophia_lucia_reflects_on_2017_calling_it_the/ Reddit - Sophia Lucia reflects on 2017, calling it the hardest year of her life]</ref> <ref>[https://imgur.com/a/vHQuvGg imgue]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/egcn7r/what_happened_to_sophia_lucia_at_the_ballet/ Reddit - What happened to Sophia Lucia at the ballet academy?]</ref> These days Soph is blossom out with 5`7`` and 121 lbs and [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/6968552400831384837?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=6968552400831384837 could cover ''Playboy'' now]. | Soph wrote in 2022, she was starting to learn to let her body be whatever it’s going to be; and her metabolism as athlete does the rest, and maybe a little workout with her fitness trainer and bestie [[Ambry Mehr]].<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CZsJ4RGPFf2/ Sophia's IG about her weight.]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CPmCVYdnSyb/?hl=en Soph's IG Saweetie•Best Friend (feat. Doja Cat)]</ref><ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CPTrmRHn33N/?hl=en Soph IG the dancing queen’s birthday]</ref> But fortunately for the dance world she just left MDA and aborted pro ballet industry dancing for her "mental health".<ref> [https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/7oun6a/sophia_lucia_reflects_on_2017_calling_it_the/ Reddit - Sophia Lucia reflects on 2017, calling it the hardest year of her life]</ref> <ref>[https://imgur.com/a/vHQuvGg imgue]</ref><ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/dancemoms/comments/egcn7r/what_happened_to_sophia_lucia_at_the_ballet/ Reddit - What happened to Sophia Lucia at the ballet academy?]</ref> These days Soph is blossom out with 5`7`` and 121 lbs and [https://www.tiktok.com/@_sophialucia/video/6968552400831384837?is_from_webapp=v1&item_id=6968552400831384837 could cover ''Playboy'' now]. | ||
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In 2019, she performed on Universal Dance Awards TV show.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10264908/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 IMDb Universal Dance Awards]</ref>. An award show that includes 18 award categories, inspiring speeches and world-class performances highlighting and honoring dancers, choreographers, dance educators, dance influencers, dance conventions and competitions. | In 2019, she performed on Universal Dance Awards TV show.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10264908/?ref_=nm_flmg_slf_1 IMDb Universal Dance Awards]</ref>. An award show that includes 18 award categories, inspiring speeches and world-class performances highlighting and honoring dancers, choreographers, dance educators, dance influencers, dance conventions and competitions. | ||
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.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CaAxktYqjL7/ body & soul]</ref> | 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. | 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. | ||