Catching-up with the co-founders of Sisters Grimm
Pietra De Mello-Pittman MBE and Ella Louvaine Spira MBE are the co-founders of Sisters Grimm and this is a conversation this dynamic duo had with James Piecowye.
Motivating, inspiring and WOW are all words that you might use to describe these ladies.
Ella Louvaine Spira MBE is a London & Dubai-based Grammy-nominated composer, theatre producer and painter. She has dedicated her life to cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary, global collaborations spotlighting and celebrating different cultures through the arts.
Her passion and drive for representing other cultures, has seen her work and those cultures be celebrated by millions all over the world. To write about everything Spira has done and achieved would be a book, but there are Grammy nominations, award-winning world-touring live cultural theatre productions, millions of YouTube hits, mass participation social Impact initiatives and now a Golden Jubilee Fine Art Series and exclusive NFT drop.
Pietra Mello-Pittman was born in Rio de Janeiro to a Brazilian mother and English father. Growing up in England she trained in both Ice skating and Ballet to the point at which Pietra had to choose her path.
Pietra was one of the rare few to win a place with the Royal Ballet Company after entering full-time ballet training, with the Royal Ballet School, at the latest possible stage at 16 years old.
She performed all the classics, created roles in new productions and has performed all over the world with the Royal Ballet including at The Mariinsky and Bolshoi Theatres in Russia and in Cuba with Carlos Acosta.
After winning the Ursula Morton Choreography Competition in 2001, while at the Royal Ballet School in London, Pietra started on the path to becoming a producer through her subsequent choreographies. Passionate about cross-cultural, multi-disciplinary collaborations and carrying with her, the high standards she is accustomed to from her 13-year professional life as a ballerina, Pietra retired from the Royal Ballet in 2015 to focus on producing for Sisters Grimm.
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