Adam Blyde

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1) Do you have a favourite web site?
I love Amazon because I’m addicted to books and CDs and it makes you thoughtful, and gives you suggestions. It’s like a little friend!!

 

2) What is your favourite ballet? Or role?
I think Manon is pretty amazing, the music, choreography and story are all amazing together. Since being at Scottish Ballet I loved dancing Ashley Page's 32 Cryptograms and White Man Sleeps. When I was at Royal Ballet School I was the first boy to dance the role of Tsarovitch Alexei, which was pretty special.

 

3) How do you relax whilst on tour?
I like to go to a coffee shop, and get lost in a book.

 

4) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
This is a bit weird but just now I’m really into porridge and bagels. They are really quick and easy snack food.

 

5) What made you take up dance as a career?
My sister did dance – ballet, tap, modern - and I had a lot of excess energy so I did it too.

 

6) Which is your favourite ballet company?
I grew up watching the Royal Ballet, so I think they are really awesome (I'm a big fan of Darcey Bussell!). But I think Scottish Ballet look really good just now, and there’s a really good atmosphere here.

 

7) What is or has been your favourite venue to perform in?
I really liked Tramway, it’s a strange space to perform in and I thought it was interesting. It was nice to have that intimate relationship with the audience.

 

8) What is your greatest extravagance?
Book and CDs – no question! I’m terrible, I read reviews of people I’ve never heard of and then buy them just on the off-chance I’ll like it.

 

9) Describe yourself in five words
Ridiculously clumsy for a dancer.

 

10) What’s your favourite album?
I’m a big Mariah Carey fan – I love her! Butterfly is the best album. I also really like an American group called Lifehouse.

 

11) If you hadn’t taken up dance as a career, what else would you be doing?
I would be running my own bookshop on the coast, or playing a doctor on ER.

 

12) You were recently voted into Scotland on Sunday’s 100 Most Eligible. How does that feel?
It’s very flattering – but I’m still waiting for the punch line!! They threw a really good party but sadly I’m still single!

 

Biography

 

Adam trained at the RoyalBalletSchool, graduating in 2001. He has appeared with the Royal Ballet and joined Scottish Ballet in February 2003. Since then, he has danced in Page's Cheating, Lying, Stealing, 32 Cryptograms, Soft Underbelly, Nightswimming into day, The Nutcracker (The Nutcracker Prince), Walking In The Heat, The Pump Room, Fearful Symmetries, Cinderella (The Dancing Master and The Prince) and The Sleeping Beauty (Bluebird and The Prince),Davies' White Man Sleeps, Petronio's MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, Alston's Dangerous Liaisons, Pastor’s In Light And Shadow, Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Episodes, Agon and Rubies,  Loosmore’s Chasing Ghosts, Darrell's Five Rückert Songs and Othello (Iago), Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Ashton’s Façade.

  

 

Quotes

 

The Sleeping Beauty (2007-2008)

.The Herald, 12 December 2007 – There’s no room to detail all that happens in this fabulous reinterpretation, or to praise sufficiently the dancers – though Adam Blyde’s Bluebird must be mentioned.

 

 SPRING 2007
Darrell’s Othello
.Mail on Sunday, 15 April 2007 – Adam Blyde gives an outstanding performance as the slinkily scheming Iago.

 

.Sunday Herald, 15 April 2007 – Adam Blyde is the perfect baddie, fluttering around Erik Cavallari’s more physically imposing Othello, whispering poison in his ear

 

.Criticaldance.net, April 2007 - Blyde and Harrison, Blyde in particular, gave some of the finest dramatic and balletic performances I've seen from Scottish Ballet.

 

Balanchine's Agon
.Dancing Times, June 2007 - Adam Blyde, Gregory Dean and Christopher Harrison [are] particularly impressive.

 

SPRING 2006
Balanchine's Episodes
. Sunday Herald, 9 April 2006 – In Episodes, we are dazzled by Sophie Martin (with Adam Blyde) in the opening sequence, as she makes vivaciously slinky work of Mr B’s sharp-edged choreography.

 

CINDERELLA 2005-2006
Page’s Cinderella
. Ballet.co.uk, March 2006 - I loved Adam Blyde and Luke Ahmet as the Dancing Master and the Equerry, with their mischievous glances and sexual tension… Blyde and Ahmet get the balance of campness and skilled comedic acting just right – Blyde’s entrance is witty, stylish and musical, and he shows a light, neat technique and beautiful line while being almost mockingly careful in his poise… and he and Blyde make an exciting and technically beautiful pair on stage…

 

AUTUMN 2005
Balanchine’s Episodes
. The Independent, 1 September 2005 – The lead couple, Sophie Martin and Adam Blyde, capture the mood perfectly in their swift, neat, measured but lyrical movements.

 

THE NUTCRACKER 2004-2005
Ashley Page’s The Nutcracker
. Dance Expression, February 2005 – In an eyeball-to-eyeball duet, contemporary dancer Diana Loosmore, powerfully turning with sumptuous use of back, confronts the light-footed effortlessly-leaping Royal Ballet trained Adam Blyde.

 

SPRING 2004
Ashley Page’s Soft Underbelly
. The Guardian, 2 April 2004- With a West Side Story sparkle, Soft Underbelly (1999) shines in the perky dancing of Tomomi Sato, Lilian Pommier and Adam Blyde.

 

. Sunday Herald, 4 April 2004 – Soft Underbelly (1999), immaculately danced by firecracker Tomomi Sato (on pointe), Lillian Pommier and Adam Blyde…

 

AUTUMN 2003
Siobhan Davies’ White Man Sleeps
. The Herald, 26 Sept 2003 – Patricia Hines and Adam Blyde deserve particular mention for the rounded, intelligent way they engaged with Davies' choreography.