Isabella McGuire Mayes (Dancer)
Born in 1992, Isabella trained at the Royal Ballet School in London and with a Russian coach. Aged 15, she became the first British student to be accepted into the Vaganova Ballet Academy where she studied for four years. Her performances at the Mariinsky Theatre include Medora (Le Corsaire, 2012) and Queen of the Sea (The Little Humpbacked Horse, 2011). During her training she has also performed The Dying Swan (2011), Snowflakes, Lead Arabian dancer (The Nutcracker, 2010). In 2010, she danced Swan Lake with the Mikhailovsky Ballet on tour in London. She graduated from the Vaganova Ballet Academy in June 2012 from the class of Irina Sitnikova and joined the Mikhailovsky Ballet Company.
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