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Marianela Nuñez
Marianela Núñez was born in San Martín, Argentina, on 23 March 1982. She started dance lessons at the age of 3, and at eight was admitted to the Instituto Superior de Arte of the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires where she studied until she was invited to join the corps de ballet of the Company at the age of 14. She was selected to take part in a tour of Argentina as a Soloist with the Ballet Clasico de la Habana, Cuba. In 1997 Maximiliano Guerra chose her as his partner to dance with him in Uruguay, Spain, Italy and at the World Ballet Festival of Japan. She was then invited to tour with the ballet company of Teatro Colón in Europe and the US as a guest ballerina.
Other roles include the Pas de trois in Rudolf Nureyev’s production of Raymonda Act III, Nijinska’s Les Biches, a Nymph in Nijinsky’s L’Aprés-Midi D’un Faune, Swanilda and Aurora in Ninette de Valois’ production of Coppélia, the Black Queen in Checkmate, Myrtha and Pas de six in Peter Wright’s Giselle, the Pas de deux from Petipa’s Diana and Acteon at the White Night Gala (July 2000), Odette/Odile in Anthony Dowell’s production of Swan Lake, the Sugar Plum Fairy in Sir Peter Wright’s production of The Nutcracker, , Ashley Page’s This House Will Burn., the 1st Pas de trois in Balanchine’s Agon, Kitri in Nureyev’s production of Don Quixote, Olga in John Cranko’s Onegin, the lead couple with Inaki Urlezaga in Stephen Baynes’ Beyond Bach, Antony Tudor’s The Leaves Are Fading, Nikiya and Gamzatti in Natalia Makarova’s production of La Bayadère, the Fairy of Vitality, Lilac Fairy and Aurora in her production of The Sleeping Beauty, Nacho Duato’s Por Vos Muero, William Forsythe’s In the middle, somewhat elevated, Jiří Kylián’s Sinfonietta, L’Hiver in David Bintley’s Les Saisons, Polyhimnia in Balanchine’s Apollo, Tchaikovsky Pas de deux and Choleric in his The Four Temperaments, the Lilac Fairy and Aurora in the Monica Mason and Christopher Newton production of The Sleeping Beauty, the Queen of Fire in Christopher Wheeldon’s Fire variation in Homage to the Queen, the Solo Girl in Alastair Marriott’s Tanglewood, Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries, Johan Kobborg’s production of Napoli Divertissements and the female role in Diamonds as part of Balanchine's Jewels.
Television appearances include the BBC broadcast of Daphnis and Chloë and La fille mal gardée on BBC2 in February 2005. She also made her debut dancing the Pas de deux from Le Corsaire for A Curtain Call for Aid Asian Tsunami benefit performance, broadcast in December 2006.
In July 2007 Núñez performed The Dying Swan at The Grand Opera House, York. She had been especially selected for this difficult piece by Marguerite Porter because of the simplicity and purity of her style. She made her London debut as Juliet in MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet in May 2008.