Inês de Serra e Moura is a soloist dancer at the National Ballet of Portugal (CNB) as of 2025. She joined the company in 2008.
She was born in Lisbon and, after completing her dance training at Escola de Dança do Conservatório Nacional, she traveled to Saint Petersburg, Russia, to study at Vaganova Ballet Academy, with a scholarship granted by Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian. One year later, she joined CNB, at the invitation of Vasco Wellenkamp.
She mentions Ulrike Caldas, Irina Zavialova, Cristina Pereira, and Maria Vakhrusheva as her most important teachers.
Since she joined CNB, she has participated in all its programs and has worked with choreographers such as Sasha Waltz, Ohad Naharin, Akram Khan, William Forsythe, Alexander Ekman, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Mauro Bigonzetti, Ted Brandsen, Michael Corder, Mehmet Balkan, Vasco Wellenkamp, Paulo Ribeiro, Fernando Duarte, Filipe Portugal, Rui Lopes Graça, Olga Roriz, Victor Hugo Pontes, São Castro & António Cabrita, Clara Andermatt, Tânia Carvalho, and Madalena Vitorino, among others.
She has danced various soloist and principal roles in ballets from the CNB repertoire, among which she highlights Sylphide in La Sylphide (August Bournonville); Raymonda in Raymonda, Act III; Myrtha in Giselle (Jorge Garcia); Mercedes and Friend of Kitri in Don Quixote (choreography by Eric Volodine after Alexander Gorski); Russian Girl in Serenade (George Balanchine); 2nd Violin in Concerto Barocco (George Balanchine); Tsarevna in The Firebird, Little Swan and Pas de trois in Swan Lake, 1st Shade in La Bayadère, and Louise in The Nutcracker (Fernando Duarte); Summer Pas de deux and Spring Pas de deux in Cinderella (Michael Corder); and Pas de quatre and the 2nd and 4th Fairies in Sleeping Beauty (Ted Brandsen).
She has also participated in the 34th Prix de Lausanne in 2006, and in the Youth American Grand Prix and Dançarte in 2007.
