Sophie Silnicki
JAZZ, BALLET

Sophie Sea Silnicki began her dance training with her mother, Stephanie Lopez at Movements in Dance in Fairmont, WV studying ballet, pointe, tap, jazz, and acrobatics and attending many dance conventions. At the age of 11 and 12, Sophie danced the role of Clara in the touring production of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular starring the Rockettes. She also trained at the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre School and danced with the company in productions of the Nutcracker, Coppelia, and the Holiday Pops with Marvin Hamlisch.

Sophie performed at the David Koch Theatre at Lincoln Center in New York City for the final round of the Youth America Grand Prix international ballet competition and has traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland to compete in the Prix de Lausanne as one of only 5 American women competing where she was awarded a full scholarship to San Francisco Ballet Summer Intensive. Sophie trained at San Francisco Ballet School Pre-professional division and danced with the SF Ballet Company under the direction of Helgi Tomasson in productions of The Nutcracker, Romeo & Juliet, Giselle, Don Quixote, and Swan Lake.

Sophie has worked with Susan Stroman in the development lab for the musical, Little Dancer/Marie, Dancing Still and danced the soloist role in the 2017 production of the Merry Widow at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center.

Sophie is currently a Radio City Rockette and has performed in over 200 performances in the Christmas Spectacular at Radio City Music Hall. She performed live on NBC with the Radio City Rockettes in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. She is featured in the web series, Road to becoming a Rockette and From Clara to Kickline.

She has also appeared in Law and Order, Blue Bloods, The Deuce, Younger, and the music video Carmin by Romeo Santos. Sophie will be dancing in the upcoming feature film, Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret produced by Lionsgate and choreographed by Mandy Moore.