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Born in Glasgow and raised in Italy, Danila Marzilli began her professional training at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2016. During her graduate year in BA Modern Ballet, Danila joined Scottish Ballet as a guest artist for the Wee Hansel and Gretel and Cinderella winter tour 2018/19. During this time she was selected as one of the top five ballet finalists in the televised national dance competition BBC Young Dancer 2019. Following her graduation in 2019, Danila has worked with Ballet Cymru, dancing the role of Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, touring United Kingdom, China, Bermuda and New York.

She later joined the Baltic Opera Ballet of Gdańsk in 2020, dancing soloist roles such as Cinderella and Mercedes from Don Quixote. Other roles include ‘Stepsister’ and ‘The Fairy Winter’ from Cinderella, the Spanish variation from The Nutcracker, the ‘Street Dancer’ from Don Quixote and ‘Bertha’ from Giselle.

Passionate about dancer’s versatility and expanding artistic horizons, Danila is also developing a passion for choreography.

Her first created piece Incognito was performed onstage attaining first place in the Annual Choreographic Competition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. In addition to this she has created works for Ballet Cymru’s Pre-Professional programme and whilst working with Baltic Opera Ballet, Danila has been able to choreograph and stage multiple works – Fundamenta (2021) and Deviate (2022) – as part of ‘Young Choreographer’s Evening’. Her most recent work Daze was commissioned and performed at the Latvian National Opera for the International Baltic Ballet Competition this year.

Danila also really values dancers’ health and well-being and became a qualified L3 Personal Trainer in 2023 whilst developing her dance career