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Sophia Morris-Pittman was born in Kingston, Jamaica (West Indies), and immigrated to Brooklyn, New York as a child. At age 15 she attended the Alvin Ailey American Dance Center Children’s Program and was later accepted a year early to one of the country’s most respected dance programs in Higher Education at SUNY Purchase. After two years, she took a leave of absence and became a scholarship professional student at the Dance Theatre of Harlem.

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Her dance credits include the Dance Theatre of Harlem Ensemble, Newark Dance Theatre and Nanette Bearden Contemporary Dance Theatre. She has worked with Aretha Franklin, Sounds of Blackness, Blaze and other artists in the music video industry. Later, Sophia moved to Vermont where she conducted dance residencies for Very Special Arts* in multiple schools in Addison County’s Public K-12 School District; she also taught movement to adults with developmental disabilities and guested as an instructor at Middlebury College.

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In 2003, Sophia founded the original PATHOS Dance Theatre, a multicultural, intergenerational, multi-abled and inter-disciplinary company that focused on giving traditional and non-mainstreamed talent (including artists with disabilities) opportunities, furthering engaging Vermont audiences by demonstrating enthusiasm for cultural diversity and inclusion. However, a momentous series of transformational life events and a hip injury would cause Sophia to put PATHOS Dance Theatre on pause. This influenced her decision to finish her college degree and attend Champlain College in Burlington, VT where she graduated Magna Cum Laude, Bachelor's of Science in Business (2008) to then eventually earning a MFA (2013) in Emergent Media.

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Most recently, she served as Arts Education and Community Engagement Manager for the Dance Theatre of Harlem (DTH) for 4.5 years, overseeing their Dancing Through Barriers Arts Education programs. She also curated and produced DTH’s Sunday Matinee Flagship Program where she engaged high- profile artists and dance companies such as Complexions Dance, Ronald K. Brown’s Evidence, New York City Youth Orchestra, and negotiated key community partnerships with Columbia University's Zukerman Institute, Schomburg Center for Research & Black Culture and the Apollo Theater.

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During the years since the beginning of the original PATHOS, Sophia has proudly navigated and survived life’s detours: major illness, personal loss, and breast cancer which has taught her valuable lessons in overcoming and creating opportunities from challenging circumstances. This is the cornerstone of Sophia’s character and how she approaches life. Thus finally giving way for the emergence of a new PATHOS.... PATHOS CREATIVE Inc.

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