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

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

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

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

The last-minute arrival of a casting sheet causes a cluster of dancers to gather around the notice board in all eagerness. I try to squeeze

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

‘Isabella! How are you? How’s your mom?!' Everybody asks me the same question. Marcia Lago leaves her mark wherever she goes, everyone

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

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 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

I always felt like I was leading two distinct lives: one of family, relationships, the outside world, and one of vocation, devotion, the bal

The thing about ballet is that it is meant to look effortless. But what goes into making something look beautiful and effortless takes years

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