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Sportwoman: Marianela Nuñez

  • Birth

    She was born in San Martin, Buenos Aires
  • Start dancing

    Start dancing
    Start spanish dance and ballet in Adriana Stork Dance Studio
  • ISATC

    ISATC
    At eight she was accepted into the Instituto Superior de Artes del Teatro Colon
  • Ballet Corp

    Ballet Corp
    At the age of fourteen she was invited to the ballet corp of the Company
  • Tour

    Tour
    Was selected to take part in a tour as a soloist in the Classical Ballet of La Habana, Cuba
  • Partenaire

    Partenaire
    Maximiliano Guerra choose her to be her partenaire to dance with him in Uruguay, Spain, Italy and Japan
  • Royal Ballet

    Royal Ballet
    She joined the last year of the career at the Royal Ballet School because it was illegal for a fifteen year old girl to work, until she turned sixteen and joined to the Company
  • Dance Bites

    Núñez played two characters for two works on the Dance Bites tour: Love's Fool by Will Tuckett and Towards Poetry by Mark Baldwin.
  • First solo

    First solo
  • Become principal dancer

    Become principal dancer
  • Richard Sherrington Award

    was awarded the prestigious Richard Sherrington Award in the Best Dancer category.
  • Laurance Oliver Award

    For her performance in Sleeping Beauty she won the laurance oliver award
  • Platinum Konex Award

    won the Platinum Konex Award as the best dancer of the decade in Argentina
  • Marriage

    Marriage
    She married her main partner of the Royal Ballet, the Brazilian Thiago Soares, in Buenos Aires.
  • Broke up

    Marianela and Thiago broke up
  • Announced their divorce

    Two years later they announced their divorce
  • Twentieth anniversary

    In Covent Garden, the Royal Opera House in London celebrated the 20th anniversary of Marianela Núñez's career in the Royal Ballet.
  • Konex Award

    Won a Certificate of Merit