#career

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

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,

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

A place to call home

For the past seventeen years, returning to my home country has been a bittersweet experience. The moment I land in Guarulhos Airport

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

'Jeitinho brasileiro': Brazilian dancers around the world

I was spending a day like any other at grandma’s house in Sao Paulo when mom arrives with a magazine to show me. Right in the corner of a

Filling in the gaps

From all the stories I’ve shared here, I haven't gone into much detail about my auditions, partly because they don't bring me happy memories

The corps de ballet and beyond

Many of us dream of becoming a principal dancer since starting ballet. It is an image we keep in our heads growing up, that of us dancing

First steps part II - the life of a touring company

I was still a student in my graduation year when a friend and his wife took us, me plus three other dancers, to a fancy dinner in the centre

A means to an end

A ballerina can be seen as many things: performer, entertainer, actress, athlete, dancer, mover. But first and foremost, ballerinas are

First steps

Signing your first contract is one of the most exciting times in anyone's career, especially if (like me) what you feared most in school was

In Times of Uncertainty

In a recent interview, as I was retelling the story of how I quit my job at Northern Ballet without a clue as to how my career would unfold

Trust the road less travelled: my journey to the Royal Ballet

I began my ballet training at Ballet Marcia Lago, my mom’s school in Sao Paulo. When I was about eleven years old, I started to realise that

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