Coryphée

 

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 Cryptograms, Nightswimming into day, Cinderella (Stepsister and Stepmother), Fearful Symmetries,The Sleeping Beauty (Carabosse, The Queen and Belle), Pennies From Heaven and Alice (Cook, Tweedledum), Bournonville’s La Sylphide, Cranko’s Romeo and Juliet, Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée, Façade, The Two Pigeons and Scènes de Ballet, 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, Chasing Ghosts and Lull, Forsythe’s Artifact Suite and Workwithinwork, Spink's Petrushka, Petronio’s Ride The Beast, Pastor’s Romeo and Juliet (Lady Capulet), Alston's Carmen, Paul Liburd's From Where, Kenneth MacMillan's Song of the Earth, Meckler/Lopez Ochoa's A Streetcar Named Desire and Martin Lawrance’s Run For It.

 

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Films 

Alice live backstage broadcast featuring Kara talking about the make up for her role as the Cook.

 

Quotes 

CINDERELLA 2010/11

.Northings, 14 December 2010 – Eve Mutso’s stylishly danced (and acted) Stepmother, Owen Thorne’s sad alcoholic father, Kara McLaughlin’s gangling Stepsister and Luke Ahmet’s fawning Equerry deliver nicely judged performances.

.TvBomb, January 2011 – The stepsisters (Kara McLaughlin and Sophie Laplane) are deliciously awful.

.Inverness Courier, 01 February 2011 – The meaty roles of the nasty trio fell to Eve Mutso as the Stepmother and Kara McLaughlin and Sophie Laplane as the stepsisters. They tackled them with obvious relish, mugging in almost pantomime style at the audience and pulling off the deliberately gauche aspects of their choreography in fine style.

 

THE SLEEPING BEAUTY 2008-2009

.The Stage, 31 December 2008 – Kara McLaughlin evokes Balanchine through Carabosse’s angular movements

 

ROMEO AND JULIET 2008 

.Hi-Arts, 3^rd June 2008 – Kara McLaughlin’s portrayal of Lady Capulet is complex and sympathetic, aided by twists of plot that enable deeper exploration of her relationship to Juliet.

 

CINDERELLA 2006/2007

 .Turriff Advertiser, 23 Feb 2007 – The dancers, especially the ugly stepsisters Kara McLaughlin and Louisa Hassell took to their roles with gusto, making them favourites with the audience.