Children often get anxious when asked 'What do you want to be when you grow up?', but luckily for me, I never wondered much about the future

Ten years ago, I stumbled upon an obscure bookshop tucked away among other small art and literature shops in Covent Garden.

Last summer, as I sat by the departure gate at São Paulo airport ready to board on the next flight to London, I felt proud of the fact that

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

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

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

Ever since I joined The Royal Ballet and moved to London, I feel a great sense of belonging. I love the theatre and this company

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

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

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

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

My days of running from one ballet competition to the next have long become a thing of the past, but when I look into the eyes of young

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

While writing my last post on the significance of dance for me, I couldn’t help but take a trip down memory lane.

The decision to leave home and join Canada's National Ballet School was one I did not take lightly. Whenever asked by mom if

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