FOUNDER, FACULTY ARTIST + CHOREOGRAPHER: Sophia MacMillan, originally from California, has been dancing in Eugene, OR for the last three years. After spending time studying various classical ballet and modern forms, improvisational techniques, contemporary forms, traditional and social dances, history, environmentalism, Buddhism, visual arts, and many other things at Purchase College in New York, she returned to the west coast to focus on a ballet career. She is passionate about the world of dance and the universality of bringing movement, breath, and sound together, the moving body and releasing ourselves from ingrained pedestrian forms, storytelling, using our bodies to express and evoke the deepest parts of our souls. She believes that dance is a language of the heart.