Sophie Barbarics is a choreographer, movement director, and movement coach working across film, theatre, and dance‑film projects. Building on two decades of international experience, she now channels her performance and teaching expertise into story‑driven choreography for camera, stage, and hybrid performance worlds. Her portfolio includes directing short dance promos and designing choreography for TV commercials in Hungary, where she developed a cinematic understanding of gesture, timing, and visual rhythm. She wrote her BA thesis on dance film, researching how movement inhabits the lens, and continues to collaborate with international filmmakers on projects blending choreography, narrative, and image.
Her portfolio includes directing short dance promos and designing choreography for TV commercials in Hungary, where she developed a cinematic understanding of gesture, timing, and visual rhythm. She wrote her BA thesis on dance film, researching how movement inhabits the lens, and continues to collaborate with international filmmakers on projects blending choreography, narrative, and image.
Sophie brings an intuitive, somatic lens to storytelling—helping directors and performers craft visually powerful physical worlds grounded in emotional honesty and clarity.
Choreography for theater/performance/film
Sophie creates contemporary choreography for narrative and experimental film, theatre, dance‑film, and hybrid live/screen events, shaping movement that carries emotional and narrative weight without feeling “performed.”
Movement direction & coaching
She works alongside performers/directors to develop physical language, character embodiment, and relational dynamics, on set and in rehearsal. This includes coaching for dancers, actors, and non‑dancers, helping everyone move with clarity, safety, and confidence under production pressure.
Creative labs for productions
Short labs and exploratory rehearsals that let teams prototype movement ideas, test staging, and build ensemble trust before or during production. These labs are especially useful when a project works with unfamiliar movement styles, sensitive topics, or large ensembles.
Whether she joins at concept stage or late in the process, Sophie aims to be a thoughtful, grounded collaborator. She listens for the emotional core of your project and translate it into movement and images that serve the story, the performers, and the audience.
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Explore how embodied practice, creative direction, and collaborative workshops can support your next project or personal journey. Each offering is crafted with care, curiosity, and a commitment to honest storytelling.
Award Winning short dance film (HU, CAD, AUS)
Interactive performance, (Dance, poetry, live music)
An award-winning short dance film, directed and choreographed by Sophie Barbarics, that explores the deeper layers of the hidden self, unseen burdens, self harm and the power of human connections. Through evocative contemporary movement, "Daffodils" reveals the emotional tensions between constraint and freedom, isolation and belonging. With intimate and raw choreography, the film explores how the invisible ties that bind us are both imprisoning and surviving threads, shaping our identity and resilience.
Dancers: Mikayla Osborne (AUS), Lia Kajari (HU), Sophie Barbarics (HU)
Choreographer, director: Sophie Barbarics
Music: Julian Loïc (AUS)
Camera: FMRL Production (CA)
Edited by FMRL Production
Producer: Sophie Barbarics, YolOne Art Group
A screendance work emerging from The Cocoon Lab, Inside of a Storm traces transformation, surrender, and the embodied intelligence inside chaos and stillness.
Filmed in the studio, it follows one body moving through weather, memory, and the in‑between spaces of becoming.
Research film from The Cocoon Lab at Yolone Art Group / The Booster, Nelson, BC.
If you’re planning a film, live performance, music video, or hybrid event and need choreography or movement direction that feels honest, specific, and deeply human, I’d love to hear what you’re working on.
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