Adam Cooper: Royal Ballet's prince for the nineties.(dancer)(Interview)

From: Dance Magazine | Date: January 1, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Adam Cooper confides that he loves dancing extreme roles, such as Prince Rudolf in 'Mayerling,' but maintains his own personality is quite different. He expresses admiration for Royal Ballet director Anthony Dowell and credits Kenneth Macmillan will helping him develop as a dancer.

In Kenneth MacMillan's preposterously overwrought, full-length Mayerling, which American audiences haven't seen since the Royal Ballet's last visit to the Metropolitan Opera House, the leading male dancer must portray states of wild mental, sexual, and political anguish while seeming to be possessed of true ...

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