Born in Cabo Frio, David Motta Soares began his dance studies at the Regina and Ofelia Corvello Ballet School in 2007.

After the Youth America Grand Prix competition in New York, he was invited to attend the Annual Bolshoi Ballet Academy Summer Intensive in Middlebury, Connecticut in 2010.

Whilst a student, he performed in Harlequinade, Nacho Duato's «L’amorosso», and danced the Grand Pas Classique (music by Daniel Auber, choreography by Victor Gzovsky).

In 2014 David performed as Colas in La Fille mal gardée at the stage of the Bolshoi Theatre and participated in the academy's tour to Milan and Rome.

[1] Within two years, with Vladimir Nikonov as mentor, he was given the leading roles in the ballets Gisele, The Nutcracker, and Swan Lake as well as taking part in the Bolshoi contemporary productions.