Kara McLaughlin

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1) What is your favourite ballet/or role?
My favourite ballet is Romeo and Juliet and my favourite role was Mouserink/Governess in The Nutcracker.

 

2) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
I love all food; my favourite is good, homemade, comfort food. The fresh produce from Italy was absolutely delicious when I was there.

 

3) What made you take up dance as a career?
My unstoppable reaction to bounce whenever I heard music. My parents thought I should do something about it!

 

4) What is your greatest extravagance?
Magazines.

 

5) Who is your hero or heroes?
My mum and dad.

 

6) Who would you be on Stars in Your Eyes?
The presenter.

 

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

 

8) What has been your favourite venue to perform in?
Biarritz (France)

 

9) What type of music do you like to unwind to?
Chill out anthems, piano (Einaudi), Craig Armstrong and old-time jazz.

 

10) Who would you like to play you in the film of your life?
Jessica Rabbit.

 

11) Do you have any hobbies?
Travelling, reading, watching movies, gossiping, playing the drums and learning new stuff.

 

Biography

 

Irvine born Kara McLaughlin joined Scottish Ballet in 1996 straight from the Dance School of Scotland, thus creating a piece of Scottish Ballet history. She was promoted to Coryphée in July 2007.

 

Kara has since performed with the Company in Page’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing, Acrid Avid Jam, The Nutcracker (The Governess/Dame Mouserink), 32 CryptogramsNightswimming into day, Cinderella (Stepsister), Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty (Carabosse and Belle), Bournonville’s La Sylphide, Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Façade and The Two Pigeons, Lila York’s Rapture, Darrell’s The Nutcracker,Five Rückert Songs, Tales of Hoffmann, Cinderella and Giselle, North’s Light Fandango,Miniatures, Offenbach in the Underworld, Prince Rama and the Demons,Romeo and Juliet, Death and the Maiden, Bach Dances, Carmen and The Snowman, Hans vans Manen’s In and Out, Davies’ White Man Sleeps, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments, Apollo, Episodes and Rubies, Loosmore’s Sirocco and Chasing Ghosts, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Petronio’s Ride The Beast.