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Create your path
Ten years ago, I stumbled upon an obscure bookshop tucked away among other small art and literature shops in Covent Garden.
Dec 7, 2024


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...
Jun 29, 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...
Jun 19, 2022


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
Sep 23, 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
Aug 1, 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 28, 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
Jun 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,
May 4, 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
Apr 19, 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 29, 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
Mar 8, 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
Jan 2, 2021


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
Dec 15, 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 26, 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
Nov 8, 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 26, 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
Oct 1, 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 17, 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 11, 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
Sep 3, 2020
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