Sophie Yukiko is a Berlin based German-American writer, curator and Performance artist. Her work centers the topics of memory, violence and legacy. As a screenwriter, she aims to create storytelling through a queerfeminist lense. During her career as a professional dancer, she became active in the Ballroom scene and has joined the community nine years ago. She is the founding mother of the Kiki House of Laveaux and known in the major scene as the former European Overseer of the Iconic House of Saint Laurent.

With a theater director as a father and a modern dance choreographer as a mother, growing up in and surrounded by theatre and dance productions, shaped Sophies childhood. Following her parent’s footsteps, Sophie Yukiko has been in dance training as far as she can think back. Her mother Elisabeth Clarke-Hasters, once a dancer for companies like the Harlem Dance Theatre, Bèjart or Pina Bausch, had send her to ballet classes as soon as possible. Getting to know the subcultural dance world in her teenage years and learning more about Hip Hop and House dance, she found a scene that she for the first time could blend in to completely and instantly felt drawn to.

In 2009, Sophie started working as a professional dancer for national tv shows, artists and productions, as well as for world-leading brands. Travelling to Los Angeles and New York City, to exchange with other performers and practice pulled her back into the subcultural dance world, as she was able to see, how different people express themselves through dance, and what stories they tell while moving. The Input she gathered on her travels, as well as the impact that the Battle Dance culture had on her, made clear to her that dance is a tool of storytelling, which she wanted to explore deeper. Especially after becoming part of the Ballroom scene – a sometimes very political space filled with multiple voices of activism -  the urge to tell stories grew inside of her.

In 2019 she debuted as a Choreographer and Director. With "HE R E" , she presented a multidisciplinary Art Project, which explored the mental health consequences that exclusion has on queer bodies. On September 5th, she showcased a performance in Berlins Bode Museum, while a concept film and a photo series with the same title was published in MONOPOL Magazin.

The german edition of VOGUE magazin, in 2019 also published another dance-concept film by Sophie Yukiko. In "Rated X", a cooperation project with Hygiene Museum Dresden, she explored the legacy of racism and homophobia that is to be found in science as well as the stigmatization of Black and of Color people in the context of Aids and HIV.

In 2020, she presented a experimental dance duett, titled “HUNGRY” – in which she reckoned with masculinity and the lack of masculine love in relationships and society. The piece was presented at Schwules Museum Berlin.

After a successful premiere of “Endangered Species”, in which Sophie performed among the "House of Living Colors" at Sophiensääle in Berlin, she created the theatre piece “INDIGO” which premiered at Tanzhaus NRW in 2021 during Moving Concrete Festival. A short film with the same title, directed and produced by Sophie Yukiko as well, was screened at Soho House Berlin in 2023.

 In 2022 she took over art direction of Volksbühne Berlin during Give me Life Festival and sold out the House with the event “Icons Galore Ball 2”.

Since 2019, she participated in residencies of Heizhaus / Uferstudios Berlin, the European Centre of the arts in Hellerau / Dresden and the Berlin HAU (Hebbel am Ufer).

Currently, her first self-created TV Series project is in development with the production house Studio Zentral.

Her artistic and activist work by now is part of programs and classes of Rutgers University in New Jersey, Davidson College in North Carolina, the University von British Columbia and Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.