In 1983, she was nominated for and won the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Individual Performance of the Year in a New Dance Production for her role in Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Valley of Shadows.

[4] In 2007 she brought Roberto Bolle to dance opposite her in her farewell performance of Romeo and Juliet.

Performances since have included Lea in Cheri for Signature Theatre, The Raven for Gotham Chamber Opera and in Woolf Works with Royal Ballet.

[10] [neutrality is disputed] She danced with important male dancers: Rudolf Nureyev (in Los Angeles for his 50 birthday in 1988), Mikhail Baryshnikov in the 1987 film Dancers, Anthony Dowell, Patrick Dupond, Peter Schaufuss, Maximiliano Guerra, Laurent Hilaire, Manuel Legris, Julio Bocca (her favourite),[11] Herman Cornejo, Marcelo Gomes, and Carlos Acosta.

[11] Their father is the Italian photographer Fabrizio Ferri,[11] who founded the art school Università dell'Immagine, in Milan, Italy.