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Aisling Brangan

Soloist

Aisling is a white woman with long curled light-brown hair smiling at the camera

she/her

Joined Scottish Ballet: 2013

Training: Central School of Ballet 

Highland Fling [is my favourite to perform] because it’s such great craic to perform and to embody such hysterical characters. 

What career moment are you most proud of? 
Being promoted to Soloist. I was proud to have achieved this but also so proud of some of my best friends who were promoted on the same day – a proud day all round! 

What’s your favourite place in Scotland? 
Glasgow – it’s my home away from home, it is where I bought my first flat, where I’ve made the best friends and where I met my wonderful partner. 

What’s your favourite ballet to watch?
Sir Kenneth Macmillan’s Romeo and Juliet because the pas de deux are so beautiful and the music is magnificent. 

What’s your favourite ballet to perform?
Highland Fling because it’s such great craic to perform and to embody such hysterical characters. 

What do you like to do on your days off? 
Eat good food, go to the cinema, read, quality time with loved ones. 

What’s your hype song? 
This is hard to choose as there are so many but a song that always gets me and the gals in the mood is Come on Eileen! which also makes me think of my Mam (Eileen) and smile! 

What’s your favourite book/movie?
Almost impossible for me to decide on one favourite but a recent fave was the The Beekeeper of Aleppo by Christy Lefteri as it was so moving. 

What makes you smile? 
Watching my niece Harper grow up! 

Repertoire Highlights: Alaskan Rag/Short and Tall –(Elite Syncopations), Girl with Ponytail (Starstruck), Arabian (The Nutcracker) 

‘Cinderella’s step-sisters (played by Constance Devernay and Aisling Brangan) are also lots of fun with gentle bawdiness and slapstick routines perfectly pitched’
Cinderella, Reviewsphere, January 2019 

‘The cast I saw at the first performance of this year’s Christmas touring season are the best ugly sisters I’ve ever seen – take a bow Constance Devernay and Aisling Brangan’
Cinderella, Dance Tabs, December 2018 

‘From Rishan Benjamin turning in a near-showstopping sassy showgirl turn in Calliope Rag to the Harold Lloyd-esque Jamiel Laurence’s superb slapstick schtick with Aisling Brangan in the Alaskan Rag, this was just a diverting delight.’
Elite Syncopations, Society Aberdeen, April 2019