Thais Martins

Demi-soloist

She was born in São Paulo, Brazil. In 1994–2004, she studies at Escola Municipal de Bailados, Pavilhão D Centro de Artes, and Studio 3 in São Paulo, Instituto de Arte Coreográfica in Santo André, Ballet Elisa in Sao Bernardo do Campo, and – finally – at the Dance Academy in Mannheim, Germany in 2004–2005. Her tutors included Mr Vladimír Klos, Ms Cristine Neumeyer and Mr Joseph Willems. During her studies, she took part in several dance festivals; her repertoire includes samples from the ballets Coppélia, The Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, La Bayadera, and Le Sylphide. In 2005–2007, she performed at the Ballettstudios of Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe and danced in chorus in the full-length stagings of Don Quijote, Giselle, Coppélia, Romeo and Juliette, and La Sylphide. She was engaged by the Prague State Opera starting at the beginning of the 2007/2008 season where she has attracted much attention by her expressive solo in the contemporary choreography by Bronislav Roznos, Time of Pain, in the part entitled Uniformity and Christine Daaé (The Phantom of the Opera).