How would your colleagues describe you?
As ‘Big Austin’ or funny… sometimes.

What career moment are you most proud of?
Coming back home and joining Scottish Ballet and on stage Performing Esmeralda, it was extremely rewarding!!

What’s the best piece of advice you’ve ever been given?
Work Hard, never settle, and keep pushing your boundaries!

What’s your favourite ballet to watch (and why)?
Any ballet Marlen Fuerte Castro dances (also any version of Swan Lake)

What’s your favourite ballet to perform (and why)?
Romeo and Juliet. There are so many rewarding roles in the ballet and the score is stunning!

What’s your dream role to perform (and why)?
There are many roles from ‘Romeo’ to ‘Siegfried’ to ‘Albrecht’ but I think to have a role created and choreographed on you is special, so I would have to say any role which is created on you is a dream!

What do you like to do on your days off?
Eat, drink and be lazy.

What’s something people might not know about you?
I speak Spanish.

What does ‘home’ mean to you?
Family.

What’s your hype song?
Bad Bunny ‘Veldá’ and ‘Callaita’

What’s the funniest thing that’s happened on stage/in the studio?
Probably letting a huge fart rip on stage… it happens.

What advice would you give to your younger self?
Work hard and the world is yours.

What makes you smile?
Marlen Fuerte Castro.

What’s your favourite book/movie (and why)?
Forrest Gump, absolute classic and always makes me cry.

If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
Teleportation.

Scottish Ballet’s Mary Queen of Scots, Starstruck, The Snow Queen. George Balanchine’s Who Cares, Theme and variation,  Coppelia Jean Guillame Bart, Esmerelda-Pas de Deux ,Don Juan Edward Clug. Song of the Earth John Neumeier. Suite en Blanc, Serge Lifar. The Concert, Jerome robbins. Romeo and Juliet Jean Christophe Maillot. La Sylphide, August Bournonville. If to leave is to remember Carolyn Carlson Don Quixote, Giselle, La Bayadere Kader Belrabi. Raymonda Rudolf Nureyev. Brel Ben Van Cauwenbergh. Cantata Mauro Bigonzetti