Sofia Nappi is choreographer and artistic director of KOMOCO, a contemporary dance company based in Italy and active internationally, that she co-founded alongside her first muses, Adriano Popolo Rubbio and Paolo Piancastelli.

Right from the start, Sofia's early creations with KOMOCO have won prestigious awards: the Partner Introdans Award (Rotterdam International Duet Choreography Competition 2021) and the 1st Prize, Critics’ Award, and Production Award at the 35th International Choreography Competition Hannover from the Tanja Liedtke Foundation and Marco Goecke (2021).

Currently KOMOCO's works, choreographed by Sofia, are presented in Italy and internationally, with tours across Europe as well as Mexico, Canada, Serbia, Egypt, Hong Kong, hosted by international institutions and festivals such as: La Biennale di Venezia, The Albania Meeting Dance Festival, RomaEuropa Festival, MASDANZA, The Colors International Dance Festival, Teatros del Canal and Madrid en Danza, Danse Danse (Montreal), Belgrade Dance Festival, to name a few.

With her company Komoco, Sofia Nappi has been an associate artist of Sosta Palmizi since 2020, of Oriente Occidente for a two years project (2025–26), and a resident artist at PARC of Fondazione Fabbrica Europa on a three years project (2025–27). Additionally, beginning in 2025 Komoco is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture as an under 35 dance production organization. Internationally, since 2022 it has collaborated with the German agency ecotopia dance productions, directed by Claudia Bauer and Meinrad Huber, for the promotion and distribution of its works abroad - particularly in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Luxembourg, and Canada - and starting in 2025 also with the italian agency Retropalco.

As an independent choreographer, Sofia also creates new works for internationally renowned dance companies and theaters: in 2021, she re-staged Holelah with the National Theatre Mannheim, originally created for the 2019 Venice Biennale; in 2023, Tagadà at Staatsoper Hannover, Moving Cloud for Scottish Dance Theatre, premiered as part of Celtic Connections 2023, and the inclusive project Kemet commissioned by the Dutch national company Introdans as part of the HubClub'23 project. In 2024, she choreographed the stage movements for the opera Platée at Göteborg Opera and presented the short creation Hara for Nederlands Dans Theater 2 as part of the Up & Coming Choreographers project. In 2025 Sofia created new works for Leipzig Ballet (Duende), Charlie in the framework of the FireWork project by Gauthier Dance // Dance Company Theaterhaus Stuttgart, Lila for Ballet BC (Vancouver) and the choreographic sections of the opera Der Junge Lord for Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, that won the prestigious Abbiati prize as 2025 Best Production. In the same year she also served as a pre-selection jury member for the 39th International Choreography Competition Hannover, where she returned the following year as member of the official jury in the occasion of the 40th anniversary of this important prize. In 2026 Sofia premiered with CHORA – The Void as Origin, the new full-length production for Komoco, and will restage Tagadà for Introdans and Lila 2.0 for the Taipei National School of Arts.

In parallel, Sofia Nappi’s work extends into research and professional training at an international level (including Tisch - New York University, Micadanses at Carreau du Temple in Paris, Henny Jurriëns Studio in Amsterdam, b12 and Share Intensive in Berlin, Elephant and the Black Box in Madrid, Tanzpunkt Hannover, Ecole de Danse Contemporaine de Montréal, Opus Ballet in Florence, etc.), in close collaboration with the dancers of KOMOCO. Since 2022, she has organized the “Komoco Intensive” workshop in Florence twice a year, attended by professional dancers from all over the world.

Sofia graduated from the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre in New York; her training has also been strongly influenced by close contact with Hofesh Shechter Dance Company and her study of Gaga, the movement language developed by renowned choreographer Ohad Naharin.