Mark Kimmett

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1) Do you have a favourite web site?
No I don’t. I’m not very computer-minded.

 

2) What is your favourite ballet? Or role?
Kenneth Macmillan’s Manon is my favourite ballet. The choreography and the music are just absolutely fantastic. Richard Honner, (Scottish Ballet’s Assistant Music Director) managed to get me a copy of the score recently, which is great as it’s very hard to come by.

 

3) How do you relax away from the studio?
At night, I like to go for a nice meal in town with friends and have a few drinks. Arta is a favourite of mine, for its cocktails. I also like to read a lot.

 

4) What was the last film you saw? Did you enjoy it?
I haven’t seen one for a while, but the last one I saw was 8 Mile. I actually felt it was a bit over-rated. The parts with Eminem rapping in it were good, but overall I wasn’t that impressed.

 

5) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
I really like Italian food. Gambrino on Great Western Road is great and they do brilliant pizzas. I always go for the Pancetta Pizza when I’m in there.

 

6) What made you take up dance as a career?
It more chose me. When I was at school, scouts from The Dance School of Scotland came in and selected me when I was 10. I hadn’t even danced a step!

 

7) Which is your favourite ballet company? – aside from Scottish Ballet of course…
The Royal Ballet, because of the calibre of dancers. Nothing really beats it.

 

8) What is or has been your favourite venue to perform in?
The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. I performed there three years ago in my graduation year with the Royal Ballet School, which was incredible.

 

Biography

 

Mark trained at the Dance School of Scotland and the Royal Ballet Upper School.

 

Since joining Scottish Ballet in 2001, he has danced in Page’s Cheating, Lying, Stealing, The Nutcracker, Nightswimming into day, Cinderella, Fearful Symmetries and The Sleeping Beauty. Davies’ White Man Sleeps, Alston’s Dangerous Liaisons (which he also performed as part of the Dance Umbrella Gala), Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge (Solo) and Ride The Beast, Pastor’s In Light And Shadow, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments and Episodes, Darrell’s Five Rückert Songs and Othello (Cassio), Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, and Ashton’s Façade.

 

Quotes

 

EIF 2007
Petronio’s Ride The Beast
.Sunday Express, 26 August 2007 – Mark Kimmett has just the right youthful gauchness about him to make intriguing his dimly-lit solo

 

SPRING 2005
Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments
. Criticaldance.com, 13 April 2005 – Joanne Bungay and Mark Kimmet brought youthful energy to the First Theme.

 

THE NUTCRACKER 2003-2004
Page’s The Nutcracker
. Nairnshire Telegraph, 3 February 2004 – But it is in the Divertissement in Act II that the uninitiated get a real sense of seamlessness between the old and the new when Estonian dancer Eve Mutso (Marie’s mother in the story but sheer seductress in the dance) performs with Lehmus, Nicholas Cleverton and Mark Kimmett in an Arabian style arrangement which was just packed full of fluidity and power.