Mayara Magri

Why organisations work with Mayara Magri

• A first-hand account of operating at the top of one of the most ranked, publicly scrutinised performance institutions in the world, where every promotion is earned in front of an audience and a critical press.
• A decade-plus inside a single company, from corps to Principal, gives her unusual authority on what sustained high performance actually requires of an individual inside a team that does not change around them.
• Career story carries credentials that buyers recognise without explanation: Youth America Grand Prix Senior Gold, Prix de Lausanne, Principal at The Royal Ballet. The proof points do the work of the bio for her.
• Brings the Brazilian-trained, London-based performer perspective on adapting to a different culture, language, and working method without losing identity, useful for global mobility, integration, and inclusion conversations.

Biography highlights

• Principal Dancer, The Royal Ballet, since 2021
• Trained at The Royal Ballet School after early scholarship training in Rio de Janeiro
• Senior Age Division Gold Medal, Youth America Grand Prix
• Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize, 2011
• Created the role of Rosaura in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate
• Ambassador for The Fonteyn 2025 Brazil, Royal Academy of Dance

Biography

The Royal Ballet promotes from inside its own ranks. A dancer who joins the Company at seventeen and reaches Principal a decade later has done so while performing publicly several nights a week, in front of the same critics, alongside the same colleagues, with no role hidden from view. Mayara Magri made that journey between 2012 and 2021.

She arrived in London from Rio de Janeiro on the back of two of the strongest results in the international ballet competition circuit: the Senior Age Division at the Youth America Grand Prix and the Prix de Lausanne Scholarship and Audience Prize in 2011. The Royal Ballet School then a Company contract followed. Promotions to First Artist, Soloist, First Soloist and Principal came in 2015, 2016, 2018 and 2021.

Her repertoire covers most of the senior classical canon, from Odette/Odile and Juliet to Aurora, Kitri and Cinderella, with created roles including Rosaura in Christopher Wheeldon’s Like Water for Chocolate. Outside the company she has taken on ambassador work, including for the Royal Academy of Dance’s Fonteyn 2025 Brazil.

For organisations, the relevant material is the working life behind the credits. Sustained performance inside a ranked institution, the discipline of preparing roles that will be judged the same night they are danced, and the long arc of building a career inside a single company rather than across many.

Key speaking topics

• Sustained performance inside elite institutions
• Composure and preparation under public scrutiny
• Long-career discipline and reinvention
• Cross-cultural adaptation in global organisations
• Inclusion and representation in high-performance environments
• Resilience as a working practice

Ideal for

• Leadership offsites and senior team gatherings looking for a credible high-performance voice outside the standard sport-speaker pool
• HR, talent and L&D programmes on resilience, sustained performance and career-long development
• Diversity and inclusion programmes seeking authentic perspectives on representation inside elite, traditional institutions
• Brand, marketing and CSR audiences working with arts, culture or sustainability narratives

Audience outcomes

• A working performer’s view of what sustained high performance asks of an individual over a decade, not a single peak moment
• A concrete picture of how elite institutions absorb new talent, and what that demands of the person joining
• A reference point for resilience that is grounded in a working career, not a recovery story
• A perspective on representation and adaptation drawn from a Brazilian dancer’s path into one of Britain’s oldest cultural institutions