https://www.sophiebress.com/about daily 1.0 2026-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/a5474d50-6e9a-4bd7-af54-8dc337c6edd3/IMG_4192.jpg https://www.sophiebress.com/contact daily 0.75 2026-07-29 https://www.sophiebress.com/selected-work daily 0.75 2026-07-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/2f4d5bd7-b6df-4d41-9024-53b4f4c3d4b9/1_1_95571c15-c1b8-49e4-8149-d53b4f8ed5f9_2048x.png.webp Selected Work The Dancer's Duty: A Conversation with Laura Alonso (Fjord Review, 2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/9c25edec-36d7-4a01-aeff-2e464f72a415/rikud.jpg Selected Work At Rikud Movement, dance is a feeling (ALL ARTS, 2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/fbc14d95-9fb9-4509-bd86-f348dcd00b8f/lizlerman.png Selected Work Liz Lerman with Sophie Bress (The Brooklyn Rail, 2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/26986a9a-28c2-4882-993d-e38d8f27417e/oliviabook.png Selected Work This Dancer Is Helping to Expand What a Ballet Body Can Be (The New York Times, 2026) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/70282aed-c0ca-41c5-a742-b08e27229bf5/vr.jpg Selected Work The Intersections of Dance and Virtual Reality (Dance Magazine, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/2776c8dd-8b63-4fa2-aca9-3acc8abe7c46/tara.jpg Selected Work How Dancer and Nurse Tara Rynders Is Using Movement to Fight Health-Worker Burnout (Dance Magazine, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/4f4a6483-6713-4600-9c67-c446f933377d/rave.jpg Selected Work Dance Floor Liberation: How Concert Dance is Embracing Rave Culture (Fjord Review, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/93d316d5-6585-451b-86c7-edb84ab61d12/etoile.png Selected Work Ballet, In Focus: A Review of Amazon Prime Video's "Etoile" (Fjord Review, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/5f90019a-5070-4b74-9eb3-a0f02f1a8c71/azara.jpg Selected Work At This Ballet Company, the Priority is Dancers' Mental Health (The New York Times, 2025) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/d8184351-80f9-4e81-af6e-02b572a7e528/smita.png Selected Work Smita Sen's "Embodied" at MOCA North Miami Documents the Intangible (Observer, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/9552c7e0-e58e-4b34-8f81-c4ed0c1f5b93/katlyn.jpg Selected Work Ballet West's Katlyn Addison Brings Thoughtful Curiosity to Every Role (Pointe, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/ea631d42-83c4-44eb-af59-97aed029c847/melanie.png Selected Work Melanie Hamrick's Next Chapter (Fjord Review, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/521d07a4-431f-47a7-8a5f-42a5fa34a523/regalia.JPG Selected Work Beginner's Mind: For its annual gala, Repertory Dance Theatre asks dance neophytes to choreograph (Fjord Review, 2024) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/e3dbb19a-6aa1-4d8d-a09d-92e04a32c73f/MarinaHarss.jpg Selected Work A New Book Explores How the 'Boy from Kyiv' Became One of Ballet's Most In-Demand Choreographers (Observer, 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/cb71d246-fa82-4a4e-a6cb-aa29e1795de7/hiphopu.jpg Selected Work At Rennie Harris's Hip-Hop University, Teaching the Teachers (The New York Times, 2023) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/32d94b57-eab8-4048-b067-654a27ff30dc/balletbooks.jpg Selected Work 2022 was a big year for ballet books: Here are 5 to check out (NPR, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/6abaefbf-ff69-478c-bf04-f2c781db6b42/vocalists.jpg Selected Work Heard but Not Seen: Dance Music's Uncredited Vocalists (Resident Advisor, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/f34cc065-02fa-49a2-a7db-bfdfafd10ad9/incarceration.jpg Selected Work How Dance Artists are Addressing the U.S. Prison System in Their Work, Both Onstage and on the Inside (Dance Magazine, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/bad36a35-e4d8-4940-bd81-63dc11bf6761/meghowrey.jpg Selected Work New Narrative: Reckoning with Ballet's Culture Through Fiction (Fjord Review, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/fae1c7a0-812d-44ea-b575-41ed43857664/jacobspillow.jpg Selected Work Through dance history, finding my own (Fjord Review, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/1454e75f-ac01-44f9-a3fb-086c0b6d1c93/serenade.png Selected Work Ode to "Serenade:" A Conversation with Toni Bentley (Fjord Review, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6a58fcdace067e0b400d4661/2d67869e-7cfb-4e08-977b-e8dea05a085e/creativeagency.JPG Selected Work Beyond the Muse: Dancers Setting the Trend for Creative Agency (Fjord Review, 2021)