Makaila Wallace started her dance training at Boulder Ballet and Colorado Ballet before leaving home to study at Canada’s Royal Winnipeg Ballet (RWB). She also attended Bolshoi Ballet summer programs on full scholarship, and graduated with distinction. Makaila danced with the RWB company as an apprentice before moving to Stockholm, Sweden to join the Royal Swedish Ballet. There she had the opportunity to perform roles such as Myrtha from Giselle (staged and casted by Natalia Makarova).

Makaila then returned to Canada and joined Ballet BC in Vancouver where she danced principal roles for over a decade. Her personal performance highlights have included many creative collaborations and interpreting existing work by choreographers such as Jorma Elo, Johan Ingar, Crystal Pite, Jiri Kylian, Aszure Barton, John Alleyne, Serge Bennathan, William Forsythe, Emily Molnar, Jacopo Godani, Jose Navas, Margie Gillis and Medhi Walerski among others.

Once departing from Ballet BC as a full-time dancer, she has collaborated with some of the world leading choreographic voices. After joining BBC’s artistic staff as a rehearsal director she acted as an assistant to Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo on a number of projects. These include setting his work First Flash on Ballet BC, coaching his pieces at the 2018 and 2024 Prix de Lausanne, and helping to stage his new work Trigger, Touch, Fade on Pennsylvania Ballet in 2019. She also joined him as an assistant for his full-length production of Alice in Wonderland set on the Finnish National Ballet (in both 2016 and 2019).

Makaila began the Gaga teacher training program in Tel Aviv, Israel (Ohad Naharin) under the direction of Saar Harari and Bosmat Nossan.  She also made a guest appearance with Ballet BC as Lady Capulet in Medhi Walerski’s Romeo and Juliet. In 2022, Makaila danced alongside internationally recognized choreographer Robert Sher-Machherndl in the premiere of Wald (Lemon Sponge Cake Contemporary Ballet) here Boulder,Colorado. During the 2022/23 season, Makaila was invited to be a full time ballet master with the Finnish National Ballet in Helsinki, Finland under the direction of Javier Torres. 

In the 2023/24 season Makaila once again joined Robert Sher-Machherndl in the premiere of Vienna Vienna. She was also invited to guest teach with the Finnish National Ballet, was a rehearsal director with Boulder Ballet, helped stage Val Caniparoli’s Jekyll & Hyde on Colorado Ballet and coached Jorma Elo’s solos at the 2024 Prix de Lausanne.