An alumna of the School of Theatre Dance Guaira in her home country of Brazil, she came to America and trained at the American Ballet Theatre's Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis School in New York. She joined the Philadelphia Ballet for our 2016-17 season as a member of the corps de ballet, was promoted to soloist for the 2018-19 season, and was then promoted to first soloist for the 2019-20 season. It was in December 2021, at the near end of the pandemic - following a matinee performance of George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker - that Ms. Lopes was promoted to principal dancer.
Among the roles she has performed since becoming a principal dancer in the Philadelphia Ballet are the Sugarplum Fairy in The Nutcracker and the title role in Ben Stevenson’s Cinderella.
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