Sophia Newton is a dance and movement artist, author, creative educator, and founder of Express & Bloom. She is a member of the Royal Academy of Dance, a practitioner member of English folk dance and songs society and also a fellow of Arts in Medicine Fellowship. She is the winner of Pizza & Pitches 2026 at The Albany and is currently developing Dance for Healing in Crawley, West Sussex in England, supported by Creative Crawley’s BOOST programme. Her work brings together movement, spoken word, and visual creativity to support wellbeing.
Sophia has her first degree in Arts Education from Delta State University, with experience in fine art, creative arts, teaching and performance, alongside a Master’s degree in Human Rights and Diplomacy from the University of Stirling, Scotland in partnership with United Nations Institute and Research. Her practice is shaped by her passion for dance and movement, and by the belief that creativity can help people express, release and reconnect with parts of themselves that may be difficult to put into words.
At the Global South Arts and Health Week in Qatar, Sophia presented “Listen: a movement and spoken word piece advocating for children’s mental health”. She is also the author of Becoming Again: A Healing Journal of Movement, Arts and Self-Discovery, published on Amazon.
Through Express & Bloom, Sophia creates movement, creative learning and wellbeing experiences for people across different ages and communities.
For more information, partnership or collaboration please feel free to contact me, Sophia Newton
https://myexpressandbloom.com/
Presentation: The Art of Listening Through Movement
Listening Through Movement explores how movement, spoken word, writing and creative reflection can open conversations around healing, self-expression and emotional wellbeing. My practice sits across movement, creative education and reflective arts. In my movement and spoken word piece Listen, presented at Global South Arts and Health Week in Qatar, I used the body and voice to speak about mental health, care and the silent things people carry. The piece became a conversation between movement and words, showing how the body can express what language may not always fully hold.
This presentation also draws from my book Becoming Again: A Healing Journal of Movement, Arts and Self-Discovery, a reflective journal created to support pause, release and renewal through writing, creative prompts and gentle movement. The journal reflects the heart of my practice: helping people slow down, listen to themselves and reconnect with their voice, body and inner strength.
The movement will be gentle, accessible and optional, with seated and standing choices. Casual, easy clothing is recommended.
This presentation connects with Art: Starting a Conversation by showing how movement and creative reflection can begin conversations about what we carry, how we heal, and how we become again.
