Luke Ahmet

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1) What is your favourite ballet? Or role?
Romeo and Juliet has to be my favourite ballet because of the music, and MacMillan’s choreography is just amazing.

 

2) How do you relax whilst on tour?
A bit of retail therapy is definitely the way to go, or just going out for a bite to eat with friends.

 

3) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
Anything Italian, or something with chocolate!

 

4) What made you take up dance as a career?
I started out because my mum thought it might calm me down as I was so hyper. My gymnastics teacher told me take up dancing as it would make me more graceful.

 

5) What is or has been your favourite venue to perform in?
It has to be the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, because the stage is huge and the facilities were really quite amazing.

 

6) What is your greatest extravagance?
It’s probably clothes. I love getting new clothes or shoes.

 

7) Describe yourself in five words
My mum always described me as an ‘angel with a dirty face’ - I think she’s right!!

 

8) If you hadn’t taken up dance as a career, what else would you be doing?
I wanted to be an Olympic horse-rider because I used to ride horses when I was a kid, and I won a lot of competitions. I was also interested as my brother-in-law was a jockey.

 

9) Who would you be on ‘Stars In Their Eyes’ / karaoke?
I think I would like to be David Bowie when he did Starman; it’d be a little bit different to do glam rock and it’s a really cool tune. He’s a true performer.

 

10) If you could be stuck in a lift with anyone, who would it be?
I’d hate to be stuck in a lift as I hate them, I suffer from really bad claustrophobia, but if it had to be someone it would be Luciana (Scottish Ballet Artist) as she would keep me calm and make me laugh.

 

11) What music do you unwind to??
I like to unwind to the Kharma Collection by Ministry of Sound just because it’s really chilled out.

 

12) Who would play you in the film of your life?
I think it would be the guy from Billy Elliot, Jamie Bell. Because I think he’s a talented young actor.

 

13) What are your hobbies?
I actually read tarot cards for other people. It started when I was thirteen and I had my cards read. I got really interested from there, and started studying them.

 

Biography

 

Luke graduated from The Royal Ballet School in 2003. He has danced with The Royal Ballet in Nijinsky’s Firebird, Peter Wright’s The Nutcracker, Dowells’ Swan Lake and Coppélia. He appeared in David Bintley’s Spider’s Banquet, Leanne King’s Touch Of Tango and the BBC production of Matthew Hart’s Peter and The Wolf. Luke went on tour with The Royal Ballet School to New York in 2003, performing Christopher Wheeldon’s Souvenirs.

 

Luke was a finalist in Young British Dancer of the Year in 2001 and 2002 and was runner-up in the Ursula Morton choreographic competition in 2002.

 

In 2004, he was a member of K Ballet in Japan and performed as part of the Frederick Ashton Gala at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Centre, New York.

 

He first appeared with Scottish Ballet in The Nutcracker in Winter 2003/04, but rejoined the Company in Winter 2004, and was promoted to Coryphée in July 2007. He has appeared in Page’s The Nutcracker, Walking in the Heat, 32 Cryptograms,Cinderella (Equerry), Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty, Ashton’s Façade, Darrell’s Othello (Iago),Balanchine’s Rubies, Pastor’s In Light And Shadow, Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, and Forsythe’s Artifact Suite.     

 

Quotes

 

SPRING 2007
.Sunday Telegraph, 29 April 2007 – Luke Ahmet’s elegant technique and puckish persona...

 

EIF 2006
Krzysztof Pastor’s In Light And Shadow
 . ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 – Luke Ahmet was the shining light in In Light And Shadow. Ahmet is blessed with a lithe, elegantly proportioned body, and his performance with pantherine flow and unexpected beauty.

 

Balanchine’s Agon
. ballet-dance.com, Aug 2006 - …with Gregory Dean, Christopher Harrison and Luke Ahmet in particular demonstrating a new found poise and power.

 

CINDERELLA 2005/2006
.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... Ahmet displays similarly beautiful line and deliciously witty acting, and he and Blyde make an exciting and technically beautiful pair on stage...