Mayara Magri is a Brazilian ballet dancer. She is a principal dancer at
The Royal Ballet
The Royal Ballet is a British internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden, London, England. The largest of the five major ballet companies in Great Britain, the Royal Ballet was founded in ...
.
Her promotion to principal dancer took effect in September 2021.
Early life and training
Magri was born and raised in Brazil. When she was eight, she received a scholarship to train at Petite Danse School in Rio de Janeiro. When she was sixteen, she won the Senior Age Division of the
Youth America Grand Prix
Youth America Grand Prix (YAGP) is the world's largest non-profit international student ballet competition and scholarship program, open to dance students of all nationalities, 9–19 years old. YAGP annually conducts regional auditions in the Unit ...
and the
Prix de Lausanne
The Prix de Lausanne is an international dance competition held annually in Lausanne, Switzerland. The competition is for young dancers seeking to pursue a professional career in classical ballet, and many former prize winners of the competition a ...
Scholarship and Audience Prize in 2011.
[ Though her teachers encouraged her to train in the United States, she chose to go to ]The Royal Ballet School
The Royal Ballet School is a British school of classical ballet training founded in 1926 by the Anglo-Irish ballerina and choreographer Ninette de Valois. The school's aim is to train and educate outstanding classical ballet dancers, especially ...
in London. Magri, who was trained in the Vaganova method
The Vaganova method is a ballet technique and training system devised by the Russian dancer and pedagogue Agrippina Vaganova (1879–1951). It was derived from the teachings of the ''Premier Maître de Ballet'' Marius Petipa, throughout the late ...
, had to adjust to British ballet
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.
Career
In 2012, at age 17, Magri was offered a contract to join the company. She was named First artist in 2015, Soloist in 2016, First Soloist in 2018 and Principal Dancer in 2021. She has danced roles such as Kitri in ''Don Quixote
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'', Gamzatti in ''La Bayadere
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'', Mitzi Caspar in ''Mayerling
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'' and Lescaut's Mistress in ''Manon
''Manon'' () is an ''opéra comique'' in five acts by Jules Massenet to a French libretto by Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gille, based on the 1731 novel '' L'histoire du chevalier des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut'' by the Abbé Prévost. It was first ...
''.[ In June 2020, in the first series of performance since the ]Royal Opera House
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's closure due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, which was broadcast online, Magri and Matthew Ball performed an extract from Christopher Wheeldon
Christopher Peter Wheeldon OBE (born 22 March 1973) is an English international choreographer of contemporary ballet.
Life and career
Born in Yeovil, Somerset, to an engineer and a physical therapist, Wheeldon began training to be a ballet dan ...
's ''Within the Golden Hour
''Within the Golden Hour'' is a one-act contemporary ballet choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, composed by Ezio Bosso and featured music by Antonio Vivaldi. The ballet premiered in 2008 at the War Memorial Opera House, danced by the San F ...
'', after learning the pas de deux in five days.
Selected repertoire
Magri's repertoire with The Royal Ballet includes:[
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References
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Living people
Brazilian ballerinas
People educated at the Royal Ballet School
Principal dancers of The Royal Ballet
Brazilian expatriates in England
Prix de Lausanne winners
21st-century ballet dancers
21st-century Brazilian dancers
1994 births