Mónica Lima is from Lisbon, Portugal, and graduated from the National Ballet School of Portugal, where she had the opportunity to perform ballets such as La Bayadere, Le Corsaire, Les Sylphides and Bournonville's Napoli. Mónica has participated in several summer intensives around Europe, and worked directly with Victor Ullate, Yannick Boquin, Frank Anderson and Nina Ananiashvili. In 2014 Monica joined the Junior Company of Ballet Jorgen Du Canada in Toronto, and soon after was awarded a joint grant from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Development Foundation to attend the Joffrey Ballet School in New York City. In January 2015, Mónica was invited to join the Joffrey Concert Group under the artistic direction of Davis Robertson and toured around the US and Canada. There she was featured in ballets by Gerald Arpino, Robert Battle, George Balanchine, Gabrielle Lamb, Dwight Rhoden and Africa Guzman. Mónica joined New York Theatre Ballet in November 2016, where she has been featured in works by Richard Alston, Antony Tudor, Agnes De Mille, Jerome Robbins, Keith Michael, Pam Tanowitz, Melissa Toogood, José Limon, Antonia Franceschi, James Whiteside, Martha Clarke and Merce Cunningham. Mónica is currently on the faculty of the New York Theatre Ballet School.