Sophia Carolina Fernandes
Corps de ballet
Sophia Carolina Fernandes, born in Brasilia, was trained in the ballet school of Maria Olenewa in Rio de Janeiro and by Pedro Kraszczuk before she got engaged at the Ballet Santiago de Chile in the season 2001/2002. In 2002 she joined the Sesiminas Company of Dance as a Soloist.
She also won several prices, among other things the second place of an international competition in Brazilia. Because of that she got a scholarship of the Dance Foundation Birgit Keil and studied at the dance academy in Mannheim.
She joined the Corps de ballet of the Bavarian State Ballet in the season 2004/2005. With the end of the 2017/18 season Sophia Carolina Fernandes left the Bayerisches Staatsballett. (Information as of July 2018)
Debuts with the Bayerisches Staatsballett
Solo 'Von der Schönheit' in Song of the Earth (K. MacMillan)
Cambio d'abito (S. Sandroni), creation
Zugvögel (J. Kylián), creation
Unitxt (R. Siegal), creation
The cook in Alice´s Adventures in Wonderland (C. Wheeldon)