This had been founded a few months earlier by Argentine dancers Hery and Luz Thomson and Irish dancers David and Eva Gray, members of the Ballet Russe of Wassily de Basil who had settled in Venezuela after fleeing post-war Europe.
[6] In 2015, she was the subject of a tribute from Venezuela's National Experimental University of the Arts [es],[1][7] as well as a short film titled Lección de Danza.
[8] In 2016 she returned to the stage with the project Amor amargo by Venezuelan choreographer Leyson Ponce, a work inspired by La hora menguada by Rómulo Gallegos.
There she shared the stage with her great friend Graciela Henríquez, a fellow dancer and innovator.
[9] Sonia Sanoja died in Caracas on 26 March 2017 after a long struggle with cancer.