Joanne Bungay

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1) What is your favourite ballet/or role?
I loved dancing the Gypsy Girl in The Two Pigeons. It’s a fun ballet and the music is beautiful.

 

2) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
Everything that’s bad! Cheese, chocolate ice-cream, mashed potato and peanut butter.

 

3) What made you take up dance as a career?
I went to lessons at the age of 8. I always loved musicals so I guess it came from watching Grease, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers and all the classics.

 

4) What is your greatest extravagance?
Sexy underwear.

 

5) Who is your hero or heroes?
My mum is the strongest person in the whole world and I can depend on her 100%

 

6) Who would you be on Stars in Your Eyes?
Kylie!

 

7) If you could be stuck in a lift with anyone, who would it be?
Ewan McGregor.

 

8) What has been your favourite venue to perform in?
Sintra in Portugal. Open-air theatre, dancing under the stars.

 

9) What type of music do you like to unwind to?
Normally classical/instrumental music from movie soundtracks – Braveheart, Meet Joe Black, The End of the Affair and Out of Africa.

 

10) Who would you like to play you in the film of your life?
Natalie Portman

 

11) Do you have any hobbies?
I used to love drawing and painting but I haven’t done it for a while. I love the theatre and going to the cinema. Swimming and playing badminton with my fiancé.

 

Biography

 

 

Born in Surrey, Joanne trained at the Susan Robinson School of Ballet, the RoyalBalletUpperSchool, followed by the Central School of Ballet. As a student, Joanne danced with The Bolshoi Ballet, the Kirov Ballet and The Royal Ballet. Since graduating in 1997, she has performed with Cwmni Ballet in Darius James’ A Midsummer Night’s Dream and with European Ballet in Stanislav Tchasov’s Cinderella.

 

 

Joanne joined Scottish Ballet in 1998 and has danced in Page’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Soft Underbelly,The Nutcracker (Louise), Cinderella (Spring), Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty, Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, The Two Pigeons (The Gypsy Girl), and Façade, Bournonville’s La Sylphide, Darrell’s Cinderella, Tales of Hoffman, and Giselle,  Hans van Manen’s In and Out, Robert Cohan’s Aladdin, North’s Offenbach In The Underworld, Romeo and Juliet, Carmen,The Snowman, Light Fandango and Miniatures, York’s Rapture (Second Leading Lady), Mehmet Balkan’s Frederick, Darrell's Five Rückert Songs, Balanchine's The Four Temperaments, Episodes,Rubies and Agon, Pastor’s In Light And Shadow and Forsythe’s Artifact Suite.