“A menina dança sozinha por um momento
A menina dança sozinha com o vento, com o ar, com o sonho de olhos imensos…
A forma grácil de suas pernas ele é que as plasma, o seu par de ar, de vento, o seu par fantasma…
Menina de olhos imensos, tu, agora, paras, mas a mão ainda erguida segura ainda no ar o hástil invisível deste poema!” - Mario Quintana
Photo via Petite Danse
By Juliana Araújo
At 16, she won over the Brazilian people`s hearts with disconcerting simplitcity and her cheerful spirit, when she won the Joinville Dance Festival in 2010. With the same cheerfulness, the Swiss public fell in love with her and granted her the audience best dancer award as well as the Prix de Lausanne final prize in 2011. However, Mayara Magri knows that in order to succeed in dancing, it takes a great deal of determination, perseverance and hard work. She knows that in the ballet studio her focus is on the job. Then she rehearses, repeats in the constant quest for perfection. Talent, she has it in abundance. And it is quite noticible when one watches the lightness and gracefulness of her movements when she performs the variations of their repertoires. It makes a difficult job look easy, and with a striking smile she bewitches the members of the audience who sit in the theatre’s last row. Read more here
