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Dec 18, 2019 · The Legend Returns! Meet Adam Cooper who plays Boris Lermontov in the title role of Matthew Bourne's production of The Red Shoes. Watch, as he discusses his journey with New Adventures, from ...
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- New Adventures
- Q&A Adam Cooper
- Starting Off at The Royal Ballet
- Becoming Macmillan’S Muse
- Moving Into Choreography and Musical Theatre
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What was your first non-theatre job? A summer job clearing tables at the National Film Theatre when I was 15 or 16. What was your first professional theatre job? Dancing with the Royal Ballet. What do you wish someone had told you when you were starting out? Trust your instincts. Who or what was your biggest influence? Fred Astaire, Gene Kelly, Vla...
Does that unforgiving harshness remind Cooper of his days in a top classical company? “Actually I never really experienced much of that. In my era that had already started to filter out, but I heard so many stories about the way ballet masters used to be.” He recalls how a charged atmosphere would spread through the Royal Ballet School when company...
Cooper was performing as Tybalt in MacMillan’s Romeo and Juliet when he was suddenly informed that he needed to take on the lead role. “Anthony [Dowell], the director, called me in and said: ‘So and so’s gone off, we’d like you to do Romeo in two days’ time so you’ve got to learn it really quickly. I hadn’t cast you in it because I don’t think you ...
With the freedom to choose his own path and display more diverse talents, Cooper felt able to concentrate on choreography and “give it a decent go”. Within a month of leaving he’d made a duet for London Studio Centre, followed by a piece for Scottish Ballet. Had he always had the urge to create as well as move? “I started young,” he says with a smi...
Born: 1971, Tooting, London Training: Arts Educational Schools London; Royal Ballet School Landmark productions: As performer: • u0007Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake (1995) • u0007Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella (1997) • u0007Guys and Dolls (2006) • u0007Singin’ in the Rain (2011-13) As choreographer/performer: • u0007On Your Toes (2001) • u0007Singin’ in t...
Features Tony-nominated actor and dancer Adam Cooper. From Tony Award-winning choreographer and director Matthew Bourne and British dance company New Adventures, Great Performances: The...
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In 2019, Cooper appeared in the UK Tour of New Adventures' The Red Shoes, playing the role of Boris Lermontov. [154]
Jun 14, 2019 · Adam Cooper is amongst the initial casting announced for the return of Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes, alongside original star Ashley Shaw.
Jun 14, 2019 · New Adventures is delighted to announce that Adam Cooper and Ashley Shaw will star in the return of Matthew Bourne’s double Olivier award-winning, smash hit production of “THE RED SHOES”.
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Victoria 'Vicky' Page. Victoria Page (Ashley Shaw), Lady Neston (Daisy May Kemp) and Boris Lermontov (Adam Cooper) The Red Shoes Credit: Johan Persson. When the audience first meet Vicky, she is an unknown, young, beautiful and ambitious ballerina.
