Sofiia Pikalova

Sofiia Pikalova (Ukraine) was born in 2003 in Ukraine. When she was 10 years old, 
her family moved to Kiev, where she began 
studying contemporary dance. In 2016, Pikalova began her third year at the Moscow State Ballet School, where she trained in folk and character dance, as well as ballet. At age 16, she was accepted to the Maslool school of contemporary dance, Tel Aviv, where she took a part in the Curtain Up project with a solo from Roy Assaf’s Girls. Pikalova received a scholarship from the MART Foundation during her second year at Maslool. She joined the Batsheva Ensemble in 2022 and Batsheva Dance Company in 2024.