Birthplace

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Training

Centro de Dança Rio, Royal Ballet Upper School

Previous Company

Ballet Nacional de Santiago de Chile

English National Ballet

Joined 2000. Promoted to Coryphée 2002, Soloist 2003, First Soloist 2004, Principal dancer 2007, Lead Principal 2009

Repertoire

Featured roles include the title role in Akram Khan’s Giselle; Sugar Plum Fairy in Aaron S. Watkin and Arielle Smith’s Nutcracker; Odette/Odile in Derek Deane’s Swan Lake; Clara/Sugar Plum in Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker; Juliet in Rudolf Nureyev’s and Derek Deane’s productions of Romeo & Juliet; Aurora in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s The Sleeping Beauty; Giselle in Mary Skeaping’s Giselle; Derek Deane’s Strictly Gershwin; Manon in Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon; Gulnare and Medora in Le Corsaire; Stepsister Edwina in Christopher Wheeldon’s Cinderella; Coppelia in Ronald Hynd’s Coppelia; Marie in Akram Khan’s Creature; the title character in Tamara Rojo’s Raymonda 

One act works include William Forsythe’s In the Middle, Somewhat ElevatedHarald Lander’s Etudes ; David Dawson’s Four Last Songs; Jiří Kylián’s Petite Mort; Ben Stevenson’s Three Preludes; Hans van Manen’s Adagio Hammerklavier; Sir Kenneth MacMillan’s Song of the Earth; Mats Ek’s The Rite Spring. 

Created roles include Gerda in Michael Corder’s The Snow QueenWayne Eagling’s Resolution and Jeux; Liam Scarlett’s No Man’s Land and Russell Maliphant’s Echoes. 

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