Victoria Willard

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1) Do you have a favourite web site?
I don’t have a favourite, but I like looking for exotic holidays on the website, mainly ones I can’t afford!

 

2) What is your favourite ballet? Or role?
Isadora (Ashton’s Five Brahms Waltzes In The Manner Of Isadora Duncan) and The Queen of The Willis (in Darrell’s Gisele) are my favourite roles.

 

3) How do you relax away from the studio?
Socialising with friends, lying on the sofa with chocolate or when time allows, sailing lazers.

 

4) What was the last film you saw? Did you enjoy it?
The last film I saw was Love Actually. It’s a great film to sit back, eat popcorn and switch your brain off to.

 

5) What is your favourite meal/type of food?
Definitely roast dinners. My mum makes a fantastic roast.

 

6) Do you find it easy or difficult to get out of bed in the morning?
It’s always difficult, nigh on impossible for me to get out of bed in the morning.

 

7) What made you take up dance as a career?
Just from an early age I’ve always wanted to dance. I enjoy the constant challenge that different styles of dance give me.

 

8) Which is your favourite ballet company? – aside from Scottish Ballet of course!
Dutch National Ballet. They have such an amazing variety of rep.

 

9) What is or has been your favourite venue to perform in?
The Albert Hall.

 

Biography

 

Born in Hastings, Victoria trained at The Royal Ballet, Bush Davies and EnglishNationalBalletSchool.

Since joining Scottish Ballet she has danced numerous soloist roles in the Company’s repertoire including Page’s The Nutcracker (Frau Stahlbaum, Lead Waltz),32 Cryptograms,Cinderella, Fearful Symmetries, (Godmother, Stepsister) and The Sleeping Beauty (The Queen), Ashton’s Monotones, Façade, Two Pigeons and Five Brahms Waltzes in the manner of Isadora Duncan (Isadora), Samsova’s Swan Lake (Big Swans) and Laurencia (pas de six), Van Manen’s In and Out (Lead girl), Macmillan’s Diversions, Baldwin’s Haydn Pieces, Fokine’s Les Sylphides (Prelude), Cohan’s Aladdin (Ruby), Prokosky’s Vespri (first solo girl), North’s Offenbach in the Underworld (Cocteau) and Dolan’s Ephemera.

Victoria has also appeared in Petronio’s MiddleSexGorge and Ride The Beast, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite, Pastor’s In Light and Shadow, Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments (Third theme), Rubies, Episodes, Agon and Apollo, Darrell’s Five Ruckert Songs (The Woman), Nutcracker (Mirlitons) and Giselle (Moyne, Myrtha Queen of the Willis), and Loosmore’s Chasing Ghosts.