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

Life at the Royal Opera House is made up of a continuous demand for excellence. Be it due to stress or mere fatigue, winter time is when

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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