Makaila Wallace

Makaila Wallace initially trained at Boulder Ballet and Colorado Ballet before leaving home to study at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB). She also attended Bolshoi Ballet summer programs on full scholarship, and graduated with distinction. She danced with the RWB company as an apprentice before moving to Stockholm, Sweden to join the Royal Swedish Ballet. There she had the opportunity to perform roles such as Myrtha in Natalia Makarova’s Giselle.

Makaila Wallace then returned to Canada to dance with Ballet BC in Vancouver where she danced leading roles for over a decade. Her personal performance highlights have included creative collaborations and interpreting existing work by choreographers such as Jorma Elo, Johan Inger, Crystal Pite, Jiri Kylian, Aszure Barton, William Forsythe, John Alleyne, Serge Bennathan, Emily Molnar, Margie Gillis and Medhi Walerski among others.

Once departing from Ballet BC, she has worked with some of the worlds leading choreographic voices. After joining BBC’s artistic staff as a rehearsal director she acted as an assistant to Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo on a number of projects. These include setting his work First Flash on Ballet BC, coaching his pieces at the 2018 and 2024 Prix de Lausanne, and helping to stage Trigger, Touch, Fade on Pennsylvania Ballet in 2019. She also joined him as an assistant for his full-length production of Alice in Wonderland set on the Finnish National Ballet (in both 2016 and 2019).

Makaila Wallace danced alongside Austrian choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl in the premieres of Wald, Vienna Vienna and Rush and studied Gaga (Ohad Naharin) in Tel Aviv, Israel under the direction of Saar Harari and Bosmat Nossan. She also made a guest appearance with Ballet BC as Lady Capulet in Medhi Walerski’s Romeo and Juliet. During the 2022/23 season, She was invited to be ballet master with the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki, Finland under the direction of Javier Torres, helping with productions by many acclaimed and celebrated choreographers.

Most recently Makaila Wallace has acted as a rehearsal director for Boulder Ballet, was an invited guest teacher with the Finnish National Ballet and has helped stage Val Caniparoli’s Jekyll & Hyde. 

She is delighted to be back to support this years dance artists at the 2025 Prix de Lausanne.