The Royal Ballet 21/22 Season Part II
A Temporada do Royal Ballet 21/22 Parte II - para portugues clique no menu de opções A new production of Swan Lake was created at the end...
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- Jun 19, 2022
The Royal Ballet 21/22 Season - part I
A temporada 21/22 do Royal Ballet (para português clique no menu de opções) With the end of our season fast approaching, I look back and...
- Sep 23, 2021
Full circle
I was eighteen when I moved to Leeds. My family arrived with a heavy load of things brought from Toronto and Brazil to help me start my new
- Aug 1, 2021
Seizing the moment
Three weeks ago, The Royal Ballet saw the end of its 20/21 season. As the curtains came down on our last performance, I felt a strange sense
- Jun 28, 2021
'Motherhood in dance'
I grew up thinking that ballerinas had to wait until retirement to have babies, since dedicating their body and soul to the profession allow
- Jun 4, 2021
Echoes of love
Oh, how amazing it feels to open our house to the public! To have an audience in front of us and hear the sound of their applause. Even if
- May 4, 2021
Dancers' wellbeing
A month ago I was asked to collaborate on building a platform that would help support dancers' mental and physical health, and since then,
- Apr 19, 2021
Ballet shoes
I have a vague memory of trying on mom’s oversized ballet slippers when I was very little and attempting to go on my tippy toes, but officia
- Mar 29, 2021
The language of the soul
For those who don’t know much about ballet, the word ‘ballerina’ perhaps prompts an imagine of someone rising on the tip of their toes, spin
- Mar 8, 2021
What keeps us going
I started this blog thinking that there would be plenty of enriching experiences in the theatre throughout the season that I could be
- Jan 2, 2021
The journey
I woke up Saturday morning feeling very optimistic. With my purse, mask, and alcohol gel in hands, I dashed into Covent Garden for one last
- Dec 15, 2020
The Nutcracker magic
So begins the story of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, written by E.T.A. Hoffmann in 1816, which would inspire one of the most beloved re
- Nov 26, 2020
"What will be, will be."
This saying takes me back a good many years, to the night of the prizes at Y.A.G.P., in New York. We were at Alice Tully Hall, and I was war
- Nov 8, 2020
Daily rituals
There is such mystery surrounding a ballerina’s life and what lies behind-the-scenes of making the magic happen on stage. How many hours a
- Oct 26, 2020
Ballet, books & other stories
Inspiration comes from everywhere. For me, it is in movies I watch, personal stories I hear, watching someone at work, and mainly in books I
- Oct 1, 2020
Life choices
Our lives are made up of the decisions we make, infinite moments of diverging pathways and choices. Small ones, like what to have for dinner
- Sep 17, 2020
Dancing through a pandemic
At the end of March 2020, the dancers of The Royal Ballet were working at full speed. It was a busy start of a new year. Having finished sho
- Sep 11, 2020
'Survival mode'
Survival mode is how I learned to describe that feeling of trying to get through my days in utter exhaustion, completely burned out. It all
- Sep 3, 2020
Part time student, full time dancer
What will I do when my dancing career is over? It would be natural for anyone who knows me to think that I would follow my mother’s footstep
- Aug 27, 2020
Preparing for a role
The last-minute arrival of a casting sheet causes a cluster of dancers to gather around the notice board in all eagerness. I try to squeeze
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