Sofia zobel elizalde biography

Sofia Zobel Elizalde must have been doing pirouettes as early as in her mother’s womb. When she was a little girl, she fell head over heels— and on pointes, too—in love with ballet when she was chosen to play Clara in a local adaptation of the immortal 1892 classical ballet The Nutcracker by Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

“I always have these incredible memories of when I was Clara on stage and dancing,” Sofia relates with childlike delight.

Sofia zobel elizalde biography

“I never wanted to go home. I just wanted to be on stage and to be dancing.”

She played the young Clara a couple of times. “And I loved every minute of it,” she gushes. “It was one of the happiest moments of my life.

I felt every day when I was in rehearsal that I was in a fairy tale.”

Though it was many and many a Christmas ago, Sofia still talks about it with twinkling stars in her eyes and love in her heart.

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