Adam Cooper

Born in London, Adam trained at the Arts Educational School and The Royal Ballet School. He joined The Royal Ballet in 1989 and was promoted to First Artist and Soloist in 1991, and to Principal Dancer in 1994.

Since 1997 Adam has been a Freelance Artist performing and choreographing all over the world. In 1995 he created the role of The Swan/Stranger in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake and has performed it in London, New York, Los Angeles, Japan, Cologne and on tour in Britain. He also created the role of the Pilot in Matthew Bourne's Cinderella.

For his performance in Swan Lake he was awarded the 1995 Time Out Award, the 1997 Evening Standard Dance Award, the 1999 Fred Astaire Award and was nominated as best actor in a musical at the 1999 Tony Awards. Other Awards include Critics Circle Dance award for Best Musical Choreography 2003 (On Your Toes), Critics Circle Audience award for most popular dancer 2003 and an Olivier Award nomination for his choreography of Grand Hotel 2004. Adam also won the 1988 Ursula Moreton Choreographic Competition.

Recent Choreography includes; Grand Hotel (Donmar Warehouse), Singin' in the Rain (Sadlers Wells and Leicester Haymarket Theatre), On Your Toes (Leicester Haymarket Theatre and Royal Festival Hall), Garbo the Musical (Stockholm) The Nature of Touch (Exeter Festival), Six Faces (K Ballet Japan), Just Scratchin' the Surface (Scottish Ballet), Elegy for Two, Reflections and The Bawdy song Travellers (Images of Dance).

Film and T.V work includes; Madame Bovary (BBC), Billy Elliot (Working Title Films), Duet (Channel 4), The Sandman (Channel 4) and Dance Ballerina Dance (BBC).

The Adam Cooper Company represented UK at the Washington International Ballet Festival, March 2003, performing a revival of Sir Kenneth MacMillan's Sea of Troubles. Most recently Adam Cooper Productions have launched its first production Les Liaisons Dangeureuses. Co-conceived and directed by Adam and Lez Brotherston it had its World Premiere in January 2005 in Tokyo.