Pole Dance
Image from ‘Last Breath’ - Sophie’s Winning Performance at Pole Theatre Uk, 2019. Winner of Best Drama
Perform | TEACH | Compete
Sophie competes, performs and teaches pole dance, aerial pole, pole flow and choreography around the world, including performing as a soloist for Cirque Du Soleil. She holds 10 titles:
Elite Pole Championships Pole Idols Category, 2nd Place 2023
Pole Theatre UK Overall Winner and Comedy Category Winner 2023
Pole Art UK 2021 Elite Winner 2022
Pole Theatre UK Professional Drama Winner 2019
Pole Theatre Hong Kong - Semi Pro Drama Winner 2019
UKPPC Professional Winner 2018
Pole Idol Hong Kong Best Choreography, Drama Winner and Overall Champion 2018.
In 2019, she developed ‘The Foundry’ with pole artist Lisa Hammond. A new combined dance and pole dance training program and is the creator of SODASY - the first training program specifically designed to help pole artists design great storytelling and dynamic routines.
For images of her act in Florenina Holzingers work, Ophelias Got Talent, please visit, Performances
View her full Pole, Dance and Character Reel below, along with all her full choreographies.
FEATURED
Behind The Sun
Elite Pole Championships 2023
This piece is purely, and simply, about power, and how it can feel when you’re just fighting your way through life, and making it out the other side.
Choreography and Concept: Sophie Duncan
Music: ‘Behind The Sun’ by Odesza
KIN
(2020)
Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt
Sophie was invited to perform as part of The Joy Project : a circus festival in its sixth year in Alexandria Egypt. Despite the global Covid-19 pandemic, she performed this piece alongside another theatre premier, NEVER END CIRCLES. A devised production based on Norwegian poet, Jon Fosse's 'Plays Six', which coincidentally is also the sixth collaboration with Sophie and Romanian director, Horia Suru.
Music: ‘Kin’ by Tourist
CIRQUE DU SOLEIL | EXENTRICKS
Sophie Duncan as lead character, ‘Carol’
(September 2019 - March 2020)
Cirque Du Soleil’s, EXENTRICKS, is an energetic story of the bizarre side show of the circus. Vibrant and exciting, all the characters have a story to tell, especially Carol…who really has a secret she’s dying to show you…
Direction: Susan Gaugreau
Music: OrIginal soundtrack by Milk and Bone
Competition Pieces
The Anthem
Pole Theatre UK, 2023 | Elite Comedy Category
Music: ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ by Elvis Presley, Cirque Du Soleil’s ‘Viva Elvis’ remake
I'm so over the moon to present to you probably my riskiest routine yet, in terms of not knowing how it would be recieved. Turns out...quite well. This act is truly inspired by all the hundereds of us who spend hours training and freaking out about our work, and we never really give any attention or showcase, the true emotions we're feeling inside. So I thought I would. Please enjoy, The Anthem.
Choreography and Concept: Sophie Duncan
Music: ‘You’ve Got A Friend’, Carole King
Heartbreak Hotel
Pole Theatre UK 2022 | Elite Art Category
Are you feeling battered by life? Have you done everything you can and it still isn't enough? Then this is one for all the triers out there!
Welcome, to the Heartbreak hotel.
A place of limbo, where the confusion of the outside world is paused for a hot second, while you drink your annoyance away. A place to indulge in your own self loathing. And at least for one moment, forfeiting yourself to the frustration you feel because, honestly, it’s just not your fault. Here’s to not getting that job, even though you're absolutely the most qualified. Here’s to always being in the right place, but at the wrong time. Here’s to fighting through the world of COVID, and then Putin said, ‘hold my beer’. And, here’s to admitting, ’this is a horrible day’, when you’re always the one telling someone else, to stay strong and you’ll get through it! Just put a pause on that toxic positivity for a change, and just sit back, pour yourself a bottle of wine, and give in.
Enjoy your stay, at The Heartbreak Hotel.
Choreography and Concept: Sophie Duncan
Music: ‘Heartbreak Hotel’, Elvis Presley / Cirque Du Soleil’s Viva Elvis Soundtrack
Last Breath
Pole Theatre UK 2019 | Professional Drama Winner
The Forum, Hertfordshire University, UK
whisper
Pole Art UK 2021 | Elite Winner
The Cresset Theatre, Peterborough, UK
Inspired by true events featuring Sophie's Godfather, Duncan Allcock who, along with his amazing colleagues, were featured in the film, Last Breath, which premiered at The Glasgow Film Festival in April 2019.
Music: from 'Last Breath' (Orginal Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Paul Leonard Morgan
Film: Images taken from 'Last Breath' (Orginal motion Picture) by Floating Harbour Films, Met Films, Dog Woof .
This is the 5th performance by Sophie, but the first in Pole Art UK. The piece is about enjoying the power and strength of ones sensuality, and owning your body.
Music: ‘whisper’ by serpentwithfeet
Love Is Blindness
(2018)
UK Professional Pole Championships | Professional Category Winner
Telford International Centre, UK
The Traveller
(2019)
Pole Theatre Hong Kong | Semi Pro Drama Winner
Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Hong Kong
The story of a traveller, escaping a war torn life, she arrives at a meeting point to discover a note. The note explains that she will have to take this journey alone…
Music: ‘Adeline’ by Alt J
This solo, performed to Jack White, 'Love Is Blindness' is a dynamic piece, created for the UK Professional Pole Championships held in the Telford International Center.
Music: ‘Love Is Blindness’ by Jack White
Rock’n’Roll Suicide
(2018)
Pole Idol Championships Hong Kong | Overall Winner
Winner: Best Overall Choreography | Winner: Drama Category
Hong Kong Central Harbourfront, Hong Kong
The solo is not just an homage to the wonderful Marlyn Monroe, but in honour of all celebrity and people who find themselves lost behind a facade, and too often disappear from our lives in a whirlwind of tragedy.
Music: ‘Rock’n’Roll Suicide’ by David Bowie