26/05/2021
This week on "Balletistan Wednesday Talk", we will host Nadia Mara, Principal Dancer and Choreographer at the Ballet Nacional de Sodre (National Ballet of Uruguay). Nadia Mara was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and trained at Uruguay’s National School of Ballet, graduating as the best dancer in school and earning the Elena Smirnova Gold Medal. In the United States, Nadia started dancing with North Carolina Dance Theatre and joined Atlanta Ballet where she danced for 16 years. In 2019, she was invited to dance at Ballet Nacional de Sodre (National Ballet of Uruguay) to perform the role of Tatiana in Onegin as a Guest Artist. After that performance, she was offered a Principal Dancer contract. In 2020, she joined “Ballet Nacional de Sodre” as a Principal Dancer.
Her most notable lead roles include Giselle, Kitri in Don Quixote, Sugar Plum Fairy in Nutcracker, Tatiana in Onegin, Mina in Michael Pink’s Dracula, Nathalie in Jorden Morris’ Moulin Rouge, and Marguerite in Helen Pickett's Camino Real. Principal roles in Balanchine's Allegro Brillante, Stars and Stripes, and Who Cares?; James Kudelka’s The Four Seasons; David Bintley’s Carmina Burana; and Yuri Possokhov Firebird, among others.
She has been featured in La Syphide as “Effie”, Alexei Ratmnasky’s Seven Sonatas, Jiri Kylián’s Petite Mort, Ohad Naharin’s Minus 16 and Secus, Alexander Ekman's Cacti and Tuplet, Christopher Wheeldon’s Rush, Jorma Elo’s 1st Flash, Wayne McGregor’s Eden|Eden and Liam Scarlett’s Vespertine among others.