Marina Duarte

Corps de ballet

Marina Fernandes da Costa Duarte was born in 1999 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and started her ballet training at the Escola Estadual de Danças Maria Olenewa at the age of eight. For her participation in the finals of the Youth America Grand Prix 2013 in New York, she received a scholarship from the Académie Princesse Grace in Monte-Carlo, where she completed her training till 2017. She danced in the corps de ballet of the Bayerisches Staatsballet from 2017/28

Information as of 2022

Awards
Gold medal and best dancer at the Festival Internacional de Dança de Cabo Frio, 2012
Finalist and top twelve at the Youth America Grand Prix, 2013
Public Prize and Second Prize winner at the Prix de Lausanne, 2017

Debuts with the Bayerische Staatsballett
Amor in Don Quijote (R. Barra/L. Minkus)
Dancer in Borderlands, Portrait Wayne McGregor (W. McGregor)
Elisa double in Cecil Hotel (A. Kaydanovskiy)
One of Swanilda's Friends in Coppélia (R. Petit)
Spring in Cinderella (C. Wheeldon)
Dancer in Affairs of the Heart (D. Dawson)
Four Little Swans in Swan Lake (R. Barra)