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

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

I grew up thinking that ballerinas had to wait until retirement to have babies, since dedicating their body and soul to the profession allow

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

A month ago I was asked to collaborate on building a platform that would help support dancers' mental and physical health, and since then,

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

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

I started this blog thinking that there would be plenty of enriching experiences in the theatre throughout the season that I could be

One fine summer day, about two years ago, my friend Mayara handed me a dvd called The Biggest little Farm. Pictured on the cover were a rust

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

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

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

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

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

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

The day dawned bright and sunny, unlike most mornings in London town, promising much good fortune and energy for The Royal Ballet’s return

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

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

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

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