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Wednesday through Friday, May 10–12, 2017, 8pm Zellerbach Hall A Streetcar Named Desire Directed by Nancy Meckler Choreographed by Annabelle Lopez Ochoa Music and Sound by Peter Salem Original play by Tennessee Williams Design by Niki Turner Lighting Design by Tim Mitchell Principals Christopher Harrison Bethany Kingsley-Garner. Eve Mutso* Soloists Andrew Peasgood Luke Schaufuss Nicholas Shoesmith Araminta Wraith Victor Zarallo First Artists Laura Joffre Sophie Laplane Evan Loudon Rimbaud Patron Constant Vigier Artists Javier Andreu Aisling Brangan Matthew Broadbent Grace Horler Pascal Johnson Roseanna Leney Daniela Oddi Melissa Parsons Grace Paulley Simon Schilgen Claire Souet Eado Turgeman Christopher Hampson, chief executive/artistic director Steven Roth, executive director Hope Muir, assistant artistic director Amy Dolan, company manager/international tour producer George Thomson, technical director Tim Palmer, production manager Matthew Strachan, chief electrician Iain Levee, assistant electrician Chris Holmes, chief stage technician Stevie Winning, technician Brian Prentice, sound operator/company pianist Sheelagh McCabe, stage manager Zoe Hayward, deputy stage manage Mary Mullen, head of wardrobe Ariane Robinson, wardrobe technician Scottish Ballet's production of A Streetcar Name Desire is made possible through special arrangement with The University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee. * guest artist

This performance is made possible, in part, by Patron Sponsors Brian James and S. Shariq Yosufzai and Corporate Sponsor Graduate Berkeley.

Opposite: Eve Mutso as Blanche DuBois in Nancy Meckler and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire. Photo by Andy Ross.  may program pages.qxp_Layout 1 4/19/17 8:59 AM Page 30 Wednesday through Friday, May 10 –12, 2017, 8pm Zellerbach Hall

Scottish Ballet A Streetcar Named Desire Based on A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams

REVISED CASTING

Blanche DuBois Eve Mutso (Wednesday evening) Araminta Wraith (ursday evening) Eve Mutso (Friday evening)

Stella Kowalski, her sister Sophie Laplane (Wednesday evening) Bethany Kingsley-Garner (ursday evening) Sophie Laplane (Friday evening)

Alan, Blanche's husband Victor Zarallo

Alan's Lover Constant Vigier

Stanley Kowalski Christopher Harrison

Mitch, his friend Luke Schaufuss

Young Blanche Aisling Brangan (Wednesday evening) Roseanna Leney (ursday evening) Aisling Brangan (Friday evening)

Shep Huntleigh, a wealthy Texan Rimbaud Patron

Young Boy Andrew Peasgood

Salesmen, Sailors, Showgirls, Artists of Scottish Ballet Bowling teams, Poker players, etc.

Casting subject to change.

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When Tennessee Williams began writing his We rejoin Blanche and find that she is with - play A Streetcar Named Desire he thought of out a home, now living in a hotel. Haunted by calling it The Moth . Our first image takes its guilt over her young husband’s death, she seeks inspiration from this title when we see a young comfort in alcohol and in the arms of strangers, girl, Blanche, dancing under a bare light bulb. including Shep Huntleigh, a wealthy Texan. She is a delicate creature fluttering towards the Eventually she is discovered seducing a Young light, a light that attracts but can also burn: Boy and is forced to leave town. a light that represents desire. Blanche: “I was never hard or self-sufficient Our storytelling, unlike Williams’ play, begins enough. When people are soft… soft people by relating the story of Blanche DuBois while have got to court the favour of hard ones, Stella. she is growing up in America’s Deep South. The Have got to be seductive… put on soft colors, year is 1935, and the lifestyle of the landed the colors of butterfly wings, and glow… make gentry is in steep decline. Blanche is a beautiful a little temporary magic just in order to pay for young girl with her life still ahead of her. one night’s shelter. That’s why I’ve been… not so awf’ly good lately. I’ve run for protection, ACT I Stella… protection.”

Belle Reve New Orleans Blanche meets and falls in love with Alan, a Now heavily addicted to alcohol, Blanche trav - gentle and sensitive young man. At their wed - els to her sister Stella in New Orleans, hoping ding we meet her family and Blanche’s younger to leave behind her past and to make a new sister, Stella. The wedding is elegant and genteel start. She meets up with Stella and Stanley at the even though the once wealthy family is soon bowling alley, and when she is taken to their to lose its home, Belle Reve, due to mounting apartment, she is horrified to see how basic debt incurred through gambling and profligate their lives are and how little privacy there will spending. At the wedding, Alan briefly meets a be as she shares the tiny living space. Stanley young man and finds he is attracted to him. proudly tells her that they are expecting a baby. Alan is clearly uncertain about his sexuality and Blanche senses that Stanley is fiercely territorial although he loves his wife, he soon begins a and resents her presence in his home; he feels secret affair. When Blanche unexpectedly finds that Blanche looks down on him and considers the two men together, she is confused and him common. upset, and eventually rejects Alan. In despair, Alan runs off and shoots himself, dying in The Poker Game Blanche’s arms. She is distraught and cannot When Stanley’s friends arrive at the apartment forgive herself for dealing so harshly with him. for their poker night, Stella is eager to be out of his way and takes Blanche out for the evening. Stella Leaves Home As the two women watch a floorshow in a Stella makes a decision to leave Belle Reve and nightclub, Blanche drinks heavily. She feels make her own way in the world, leaving Blanche lightheaded and suddenly is haunted by an alone with her family and their financial prob - image of Alan and the night of his death. lems. Over time, Blanch deals with many fam - Shaken, she leaves the club with Stella, and on ily deaths, including those of her parents. The the street meets a Mexican flower seller, offering beautiful but decaying Belle Reve is lost and flowers for graves as she chants “flores para los Blanche becomes overwhelmed. muertos” (“flowers for the dead”). As Blanche The scene shifts to the music-filled streets buys a flower, she imagines again that young of New Orleans, where Stella meets and falls Alan is haunting her. passionately in love with Stanley Kowalski, a Back at the apartment, Stanley’s poker game factory worker. Here, the score introduces us to is in full swing. There, Blanche meets his friend the world of jazz. Mitch. Mitch is a shy man, unconfident with

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women and unmarried, and Blanche takes the The Letter opportunity to flirt with him. She longs for a Time has passed, and Stella is now heavily preg - safe haven—protection from the world’s harsh - nant. Stanley arrives home with a letter from ness—and can see no way to attain this unless a friend telling him of Blanche’s promiscuous she can find a husband. In the early 1950s, few past. Having seen Blanche trying to “steal” his women could imagine survival or happiness wife, he is now determined to destroy Blanche’s without being married. Sensing that Mitch is chances with Mitch. He shows the letter to Stella her only chance, Blanche is desperate to con - and we see images of Blanche’s past encounters vince him that she is still young and innocent. when she was living at the hotel. When she invites Mitch to dance, Stanley be - Blanche discovers Stella begging Stanley not comes enraged at the interruption to his poker to show the letter to anyone. She asks to see it, game and throws the radio out the window. but Stanley waves it before her eyes and leaves Stella is furious and pushes the friends to leave. to do his damage. Blanche is terrified and imag - Stanley, now drunk and feeling his territory has ines the letter and its contents being seen by been invaded, attacks his wife. His friends man - everyone in town, including Mitch. age to stop him and douse him in the bath while Mitch arrives, angry that he has been de - the two women run out onto the street. Stanley ceived by tales of her innocent past. He has the is full of remorse and calls out to Stella. Unable letter and he tries to force himself on Blanche to resist her passion for Stanley and his need for before leaving in disgust. Alone, Blanche feels her, Stella returns and is able to forgive, taking she has lost every chance for survival. Her moth- him into her arms. like dance reveals her vulnerability, and the cho - rus of women echoes her movements.

ACT II Blanche Retreats into Fantasy When the doorbell rings, Blanche is brought The Next Morning back to reality by the arrival of a newspaper de - The next morning, Stanley and Stella are very livery boy. He reminds her of young Alan, and loving towards each other and Blanche, who has indeed Alan’s ghost appears again to haunt her. spent the night with a neighbour, returns just She tries to seduce the boy, but her hold on re - as Stanley is going out. She sees Stanley as a ality is so slight that the boy keeps turning into monster and is desperate to get Stella packed Alan. When the boy leaves, Blanche is alone, and away before he returns, but Stanley comes haunted by Alan and other figures from her back unexpectedly and overhears Blanche try - past: Alan’s Lover and Young Blanche. ing to turn his wife against him. Stella sees him Feeling that she has nowhere to turn and that in the doorway and leaps into his arms. Blanche Stanley will throw her out, Blanche drinks feels isolated and imagines she is surrounded by heavily and continues to retreat into fantasy as “desire” in the form of couples locked in pas - she sees characters from her life coming to - sionate embrace. She turns, as always, to drink. wards her. She dresses up in an old ball gown and imagines she is the star attraction in her Blanche and Mitch own life. Mitch arrives to take Blanche on a date, and a Blanche is brought suddenly back to sobri - sequence of short scenes shows us their court - ety and reality when Stanley appears. He is cel - ship over the long, hot summer. They dine, go ebrating the birth of his child. She is terrified boating, shelter from the rain, and visit the to be alone with him and defends herself with movies. Blanche continues to put up a front a broken bottle. Stanley, provoked, takes her of innocence and refuses Mitch any intimacy by force. beyond a goodnight kiss. Some days later we see Blanche, broken, being carefully dressed by Stella. She is prepar - ing her for a trip to the mental hospital, where

Opposite: Quenby Hersh as Young Blanche with Eve Mutso as Blanche in Nancy Meckler and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire . Photo by Andy Ross.  may program pages.qxp_Layout 1 4/19/17 8:59 AM Page 36

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Stanley has arranged for her to be committed. Hampson ’s Romeo and Juliet , created for the When the Doctor arrives, Blanche runs to (RNZB) in 2004, was Stella, who has to choose whether to protect nominated for a Laurence Olivier Award (Best Blanche or to be loyal to Stanley; she decides New Production, 2005); in the same year he to stay with Stanley and Blanche leaves the created a production of Giselle for the National apartment with the Doctor. Blanche now re - Theatre, Prague. Hampson choreographed Sin- treats into fantasy. She imagines the doctor is a fonietta Giocosa for the in 2006; friend and that she is in a field of flowers—the after a New York tour, it received its UK pre - flowers for the dead we saw her buy in the street miere with ENB in 2007. from the Mexican flower seller. Hampson created Cinderella for RNZB in —Nancy Meckler 2007, which was subsequently named Best New Production by the New Zealand Herald and Scottish Ballet is Scotland’s national dance televised by TVNZ in 2009. His work has company, established in 1969 by Peter Darrell. toured Australia, China, the US, and through - The award-winning ensemble has built its out Europe. Other commissions include Dear reputation on strong commissioning projects Norman (Royal Ballet, 2009); Sextet (Ballet and ambitious touring, and regularly appears Black/ROH2, 2010); Silhouette (RNZB, 2010); at premier theaters and events such as Sadler’s Rite of Spring (Atlanta Ballet, 2011); Storyville Wells () and the Edinburgh Interna - (Ballet Black/ROH2, 2012), nominated for a tional Fes ti val as well as at leading venues and National Dance Award in 2012; and Hansel and festivals in Europe, Asia, and North America. Gretel (Scottish Ballet 2013). Scot tish Ballet continues to build on its heritage Hampson is a co-founder of the Inter na- as a bold, adventurous company with ambitious tional Ballet Masterclasses in Prague and creative programs and touring projects, work - has been a guest teacher for English National ing with groundbreaking choreographers in - Ballet, , Royal New Zea- cluding Ivgi & Greben, Bryan Arias, David land Ballet, , Atlanta Ballet, Daw son, and . Bonachela Dance Company, Matthew Bourne’s New Adven tures, and the Genée International www.scottishballet.co.uk Ballet Competition. His work now forms part www.twitter.com/scottishballet of the Solo Seal Award for the Royal Academy www.facebook.com/scottishballethq of Dance. www.instagram.com/scottishballet www.youtube.com/scottishballet Nancy Meckler (direc - tor ) is artistic director for Shared Experience Christopher Hampson Theatre, for which she (chief executive/artistic has dire cted produc - director ) joined Scottish tions including Anna Ballet as artistic d irec - Karenina, The Bacchae, tor in August 2012. He Orestes, True West, The trained at the Royal Birth day Party, Heart - Bal let School, and his break House, Mother Courage, and with co- choreographic work be- director Polly Teale, Mill on the Floss and War gan there and continued and Peace . at (ENB), where he Aristo will be her third play by Martin Sher - danced until 1999. While at ENB, Hampson cre - man, the other two being an adaptation of ated numerous award-winning works, including A Passage to India for Shared Experience and Double Con certo , Perpetuum Mobile , Con certo Rose , with Olympia Dukakis, for the National Grosso, Country Garden , and The Nutcracker . Theatre and on Broadway. As associate direc -

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tor of Hampstead Theatre she directed Uncle Museum. She belongs to the dance-theater Vanya and Buried Child as well as Sufficient Car - collective De Fantasten, with whom she choreo - bo hydrate and Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi, both graphed two full-length works that have been transferring to the West End. During three performed in theaters and at festivals through - years as associate director for Leicester Hay - out the Netherlands. market her productions included The Cherry Her critically acclaimed Before After, created Orchard, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Baal, The for the in 2002, has been Hypo chondriac, and Electra/Orestes . Meck ler performed at the Dance Passion Festival in the has also directed new plays for the Bush, Royal Netherlands, the New York Fall for Dance Festi- Court, and Almeida theaters. val, the Houston Dance Salad Festival, the Her work for the UK’s National Theatre Orange County Fall for Dance Festival, the includes Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and Murcia Gala (Spain), and throughout Sweden Abingdon Square (Soho Poly transfer). More by the Göteborg Ballet. recently for the Royal Shakespeare Company Ochoa has won several choreography prizes: (RSC) she has directed Comedy of Errors, House in 2002 with Clair/Obscur at the International of De sires , and Romeo and Juliet . She also re - Choreographic Competition Hannover, and in cently directed Onassis in the West End with 2003, the first prize and public prize with Replay Robert Lind say. Her two feature films are Sister at the International Choreographer Compe - My Sister and Alive and Kicking (screenplay by tition in Bornem. In 2007 she was selected to Martin Sherman). participate with the New York Choreographic Institute, and in 2009 her pieces Zip Zap Zoom Annabelle Lopez Ochoa (BJM –Danse Montréal) and Nube Blanco (Luna (choreographer ) com - Negra Dance Theater) were cited as dance pleted her dance studies highlights of the year. at Acad - Ochoa’s One , created for Drew Jacoby and emy of Antwerp, Bel- Rubinald Pronk, has been acquired by Chris - gium. As a professional topher Wheeldon’s Morphoses company and dancer, she appeared presented at Sadlers’ Wells (London), Vail, and with various com panies New York City Center as well as at the Dance in Germany before join - Salad Festival in Houston, Titas Gala in ing, in 1993, the modern jazz-dance company Cincinnati, and on a tour of Mexico. In 2010 Djazzex based in The Hague. In 1997 she joined Ochoa reworked One into a quartet at the Jacob’s the Scapino Ballet Rotterdam, where she Pil low Festival. danced as a soloist for seven years. In 2003, she decided to focus her creative energies entirely Peter Salem ’s ( compo - on making her own choreography. ser ) compositions range Ochoa has created works for Scapino Ballet from scores for televi - Rotterdam, Dutch National Ballet, Ballet du sion dramas, documen - Grand Théâtre de Genève, Djazzex, The Royal taries, and film to music Ballet of Flanders, Gran Canaria Ballet, for theater, dance, and Göte borg Ballet, State Modern Ballet Ankara, the concert hall. His BalletX, , BJM-Danse most recent television Montréal, Luna Negra Dance Theatre Chicago, commission was for the Ballet National de Marseille, Saarbrucken highly acclaimed BBC series Call the Midwife; Ballet, Jacoby & Pronk, Chemnitzer Ballet, and other television dramas include the award- . winning 5 Daughters , The Other Boleyn Girl, Ochoa also creates for theater and opera, and Beau Brummell, Trial and Retribution, The Vice, recently for the celebrated Dutch fashion de - Great Expectations, and documentaries such as signers Viktor & Rolf’s project in the Van Gogh Simon Schama’s The Power of Art: Caravaggio

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and Francesco’s Venice . In theater, Salem has National Opera); The Magic Flute , The Rake’s worked with Nancy Meckler for many years, Progress, Sarka , Osud, and Cherevichki (Garsing- writing music for her productions of Anna ton Opera); Chorus! (Welsh National Opera); Karenina, Mill on the Floss, The Tempest, A Pas - National Opera Studio Showcase (QEH); La sage to India, War and Peace , and Bronte (all traviata (English Touring Opera); L’amore in - for Shared Experience Theatre), as well as her dustrioso, Carmen (Opera Holland Park); Don dance-themed film Alive and Kicking . Other Giovanni (Opera North), and Rusalka (Opera theater credits include Jane Eyre, Kinder trans- North/Sydney Opera House, winner of the port, Mine, Ten Tiny Toes, Speechless (also for Design in Opera Australian Green Room Shared Experience Theatre), Julius Caesar, Award and Best Production Helpman Award). Murder in the Cathedral (RSC), The Miser, The Turner’s theater credits include A Passage to Crucible, and Robert LePage’s A Midsummer India, Orestes, and Gone to Earth (Shared Ex - Night’s Dream (National Theatre). perience); Cardenio, Brixton Stories, As You Like Salem is also a performer and musical direc - It (co-design), and Oroonoko (Royal Shakes - tor, recently playing in the on-stage band at the peare Company); Island Princess (RSC/West National Theatre in England People Very Nice . End); My Fair Lady (Århus, Denmark); Cyrano As well as working with dance as part of De Bergerac (Bristol Old Vic); Further than the theatrical productions, early in his career Salem Furthest Thing (National Theatre); Great Ex - was a rehearsal pianist with London Contemp - pectations (Derby Playhouse/Philadelphia); o rary Dance, wrote a piece for Zaragoza Ballet Speaking in Tongues (Hampstead Theatre); Our choreographed by Caroline Salem, and collabo - Boys (Donmar Warehouse); Things Fall Apart rated with Gregory and Ian Brown on an award- (Royal Court), and Junk (Oxford Stage Com - winning adaptation of Great Expectations in pany/Norway). . Concert works include a series of pieces for string instruments, and Windhover for Tim Mitchell ’s ( lighting piano trio, which has recently been performed design ) dance and opera and recorded by the Fidelio Trio and can be credits include Cleopat- streamed from Salem’s website. ra , Hamlet, and Dracula (); Ari - Niki Turner (set and adne Auf Naxos (Welsh costume design ) gradu - National Opera/Bos ton); ated from Central St La boh ème, Die Fleder - Martins School of Art maus (WNO); Die Frau with a degree in theater ohne Schatten (Mari in sky, Russia); The Lady and design. She was then The Fool (); Elektra awarded a scholarship (Opér a de Nice/Mar i insky); The Marriage of to travel the world re - Figaro, Requiem Ballet, and Don Giovanni searching street festivals, (Kam meroper Vienna), and Carmen Negra (Ice - a project that culminated in an exhibition in landic Opera). The Orangery, Gunnersbury Park, London. Theater credits include Rosencrantz and Working extensively in opera, both in the UK Guildenstern are Dead, Singin’ in the Rain (West and internationally, her credits include Mada - End/Chichester); Crazy For You (West End/ ma Butterfly (Theater Magdeburg, Germany); Regents Park); Earthquakes in London (Head - The Magic Flute (Fundacion Opera De Oviedo, long Theatre tour); Smash (Menier Chocolate Spain); Il trovatore, La traviata , and Rigoletto Factory); Bingo (Young Vic/Chichester); Racing (Danish National Opera); A Midsummer Night’s Demon (Sheffield Crucible); Tell Me on a Sun - Dream (Royal Opera House, Linbury Studio); day (tour); Master Class (Theatre Royal Bath); The Marriage of Figaro (costumes, English Filu mena, The Knot of the Heart, Becky Shaw

Opposite: Eve Mutso as Blanche DuBois with company dancers in Nancy Meckler and Annabelle Lopez Ochoa’s A Streetcar Named Desire . Photo by Andy Ross.  may program pages.qxp_Layout 1 4/19/17 9:00 AM Page 40

Cal Performances thanks

(formerly The Hotel Durant)

for its generous support of this presentation of Scottish Ballet A Streetcar Named Desire

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(Al mei da); The Syndicate, Goodnight Mr. Tom, Hope Muir (assistant The Critic/Real Inspector Hound, The Master artis tic director ), from Builder, Okla homa, The Grapes of Wrath, Cyr - Toronto, was a founding ano De Bergerac (Chichester Festival Theatre, member of Peter Schau - with whom he is an associate); The Secret Gar - fuss’ London Festival den (Edinburgh Festival Theatre/Toronto); The Ballet School. Upon Cherry Orchard, Arthur and George (Bir ming - graduation, she joined ham Rep); Dirty Dancing (West End/UK tour/ the company (now the international); The History Boys (tour/WYP); Eng lish National Ballet), Darker Shores (Hampstead); A Month in the where she danced numerous soloist and princi - Country (Salisbury Playhouse); Cinderella (Old pal roles. In 1994 Muir joined Rambert Dance Vic); Sleeping Beauty (New York/Barbi can/ Com pany following the appointment of Chris - Young Vic); Henry IV Parts I & II (Wash ington topher Bruce CBE as artistic director. There she Shake speare); The Play What I Wrote (Broad - danced in over a dozen Bruce works, as well as way/West End); Merrily We Roll Along (Don - a wide variety of repertoire by choreographers mar Warehouse); Hamlet (Japan/Sadler’s Wells), including Ek, Kylián, Naharin, Tharp, Tetley, and Yes Prime Minister, Lend Me A Tenor , Toyer, De Frutos, and Cunningham. Muir then moved Ima gine This, Bad Girls The Musical, Otherwise to Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and ex - Engaged, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet, and panded her repertoire to include works by Of Mice and Men (West End). Forsythe, Duato, and Lubovitch, among others. Working extensively with the RSC, Mitchell’s Muir assists Christopher Bruce with the set - recent credits include Written on the Heart, The ting of his work internationally, as well as Javier City Madam, Cardenio , Morte D’Arthur, Twelfth de Frutos and American choreographer Helen Night, and Hamlet. Pickett. She assisted Crystal Pite with her Emergence for the National Ballet of Canada in 2009 and was invited by Emily Molnar to be a guest rehearsal assistant for Hofesh Shechter’s Untouchable at the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden. Muir joined Scottish Ballet in 2009 and was promoted to assistant artistic director in 2015. Currently she is artistic advisor for ; she will join the company in July as artis - tic director.

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Eve Mutso Christopher Harrison Bethany Andrew Peasgood Luke Schaufuss Kingsley-Garner

Nicholas Shoesmith Araminta Wraith Victor Zarallo Laura Joffre Sophie Laplane

Evan Loudon Rimbaud Patron Constant Vigier Javier Andreu Aisling Brangan

Matthew Broadbent Grace Horler Pascal Johnson Roseanna Leney Daniela Oddi

Melissa Parsons Grace Paulley Simon Schilgen Claire Souet Eado Turgeman

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PRINCIPALS FIRST ARTISTS Grace Horler Born: Windsor, England Christopher Harrison Laura Joffre Trained: Born: Kippen, Scotland Born: Perpignan, France Joined Scottish Ballet in 2015 Trained: Dance School Trained: École Nationale of Scotland and de Danse de Marseille and Pascal Johnson Royal Ballet Upper School School Born: Watford, England Joined Scottish Ballet in 2005 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2010 Trained: Tring Park School for the Performing Arts Bethany Kingsley-Garner Sophie Laplane Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Born: Devon, England Born: Paris, France Trained: Royal Ballet School Trained: Paris Opera Ballet Roseanna Leney Joined Scottish Ballet in 2007 School and Conservatoire Born: Frimley, Surrey National Supérieur de Paris Trained: Royal Ballet School Eve Mutso, guest artist de Musique et de Danse Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Born: Tallinn, Estonia Joined Scottish Ballet in 2004 Trained: Tallinn Ballet School Daniela Oddi Former , Evan Loudon Born: Canberra, Australia Scottish Ballet Born: Sydney, Australia Trained: English National Trained: Royal Ballet School Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 SOLOISTS Rimbaud Patron Melissa Parsons Andrew Peasgood Born: Grenoble, France Born: Kent, England Born: Lincolnshire, England Trained: Paris Opera Ballet Trained: Royal Ballet School Trained: Royal Ballet School School, English National Joined Scottish Ballet in 2015 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2010 Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2012 Grace Paulley Luke Schaufuss Born: London, England Born: Surrey, England Trained: Royal Ballet School Trained: ARTISTS Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Constant Vigier Simon Schilgen Nicholas Shoesmith Born: Quimper, France Born: Heidelberg, Germany Born: Cirencester, England Trained: Paris Opera Trained: School Trained: Australian Ballet School Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2016 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2012 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Claire Souet Araminta Wraith Javier Andreu Born: Bordeaux, France Born: London, England Born: Zaragoza, Spain Trained: English National Trained: Royal Ballet School Trained: Maria Avila Ballet School and English National Dance School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Eado Turgeman Aisling Brangan Born: Kiryat Tivon, Israel Victor Zarallo Born: Dublin, Ireland Trained: School Born: Barcelona, Spain Trained: Central School of Ballet Joined Scottish Ballet in 2014 Trained: Institut del Theatre, Joined Scottish Ballet in 2013 John Cranko School, and Royal Ballet Upper School Matthew Broadbent Joined Scottish Ballet in 2008 Born: Zevenaar, Netherlands Trained: Royal Ballet School Joined Scottish Ballet in 2015

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