Brazilian dancer Mayara Magri is a Principal of The Royal Ballet. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and graduated into the Company in 2012. Afterwards, she was promoted to Soloist in 2016, First Soloist in 2018 and Principal in 2021.
Magri grew up in Rio de Janeiro and won a scholarship at the age of eight to train at The Petite Danse School in her hometown. She won the Youth America Grand Prix Senior Age Division and Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize in 2011. A certified teacher from The Royal Ballet School’s Teacher’s Training since 2022, Magri also represents renowned dancewear brands such as ‘So Danca’ as a Global Ambassador and Grishko as a Pointe Shoes Ambassador.
Magri’s repertory with The Royal Ballet in the past 12 years includes Paulina (The Winter’s Tale), Fairy Godmother, Winter Fairy and Cinderella (Cinderella), Odette/Odile (Swan Lake), Juliet (Romeo & Juliet), Gamzatti (La Bayadere), Myrtha (Giselle), Gypsy Girl (The Two Pigeons), Princess Aurora and Lilac Fairy (The Sleeping Beauty), Tatiana (Anastasia), Kitri and Mercedes (Don Quixote), Rose Fairy and Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker), Polyhymnia (Apollo), Countess Larisch and Mitzi Caspar (Mayerling), Lescaut’s Mistress (Manon), lead roles in The Cellist, Rhapsody, Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan, and roles in The Vertiginous Thrill of Exactitude, ‘Rubies’ Principal Woman (Jewels), Woolf Works, Within the Golden Hour, Monotones I, Symphonic Variations, Dances at a Gathering, After the Rain, Asphodel Meadows, Woolf Works, Carbon Life, Solo Echo, women with water, DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse, the Red Queen (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland). She created Rosaura in ‘Like Water for Chocolate’ and roles in Mthuthuzeli November’s ‘For What It’s Worth’ Multiverse, Corybantic Games, The Illustrated ‘Farewell’, The Dante Project and Prima.