Adam Cooper Official Website Launched

Adam Cooper is pleased to announce the launch of his official website at:
www.adam-cooper.com

Photo by M Childers ©

The launch includes confirmation of the announcement regarding On Your Toes.

The site currently gives information about Adam�s upcoming performances, with exclusive details of his performance schedule for the Far Eastern tour of Swan Lane and includes a detailed biography and a small photo gallery. This is very much �Phase One� and more pages will be added in the coming weeks and months. Adam will be contributing a regular diary, beginning with his performances of Swan Lake. There are plans to extend the photo gallery and to include an exclusive photographic project later in the year.

Booking seems to be open already! - see Hiromi's post:
http://www.danze.co.uk/dcforum/news/1695.html#1

The James-Dean style photos make me a little sad, though. I hope this is not where Adam wants to go with his career: I'm-so-sexy bad boys are a dime a dozen; beautiful charismatic dancers are rare and special.

I agree. Will Kemp seems to be going down the same route and it's a little bit demeaning. I wonder if ballet boys are a little immature for their age and have been persuaded by their agents that glam shots are the way to go .

I, for one, would much prefer some Onegin/R&J/SL pics to Hello-type stuff.

As far as I'm aware, the "glam shots" were taken in L.A. a couple of years ago when Adam was on tour, and they were just a bit of fun. I think people may be taking things a little bit too seriously!

Incidentally, I called the Royal Festival Hall box office today and they said that booking for On Your Toes opened last Thursday (20th) for everyone, although there were some days where there were discounts on normal price tickets for SBC Friends only. However, when I tried checking their website there were no details available yet - hopefully that will be rectified soon.

Okay, this is my first post here, so please be gentle; but I must disagree with the above statement. Granted, I don't know Will Kemp and Adam Cooper's stage work as well as many of you do, but that is mainly because I live across the Atlantic. I have, however, been following Will's career for about four years now and while I don't know him personally, I have read pretty much every interview and article on him. My personal take is that he is just flexing his wings a bit to try different things, but doing so sparingly, as dance is his first love. And while he has done some 'glam shots', they have been few and far between. As he himself has said, "I've had so many job offers. I've turned them down. I'm a dancer and an actor and to do that convincingly you have to stay unrecognisable. If I was the face of, whatever, I'd lose my appeal."

I get the sense that he is very focused and has a good deal of integrity and maturity in the pursuit of his craft. And the fact that he does turn down many offers, such as the Armani deal which would have brought him a pretty penny and his face in every fashion magazine for months on end, is a clear indication of where his head is on such matters. I admire him for this, although it's frustrating from a fan's point of view trying to get news and photos on him.

So, I hope I haven't offended anyone by my reply as certainly I would never intend to do so, especially Ann, as I quite often enjoy reading her many posts. (I have been a regular visitor to this site for ages, but only now have a reason or perhaps courage to post a message myself). And I hope I don't sound preachy. My apologies if so.

Also, to Karen Ritchie on the Adam Cooper website - bravo. I haven't seen a link to email you so I will have to do it in this public forum. Just to let you know, I have used a photo from your site as an icon link to your website from mine. If you wish me to remove the photo, please contact me at dani@willkemp.org and I will replace it with a different photo.

Sorry to ramble on so. Best wishes to all from Washington, DC.

Dani - www.willkemp.org

Is any webmaster contact detail mentioned on the homepage, just in case ?

I booked some tickets of Swan Lake today !!

Yes there will be a technical help line address. I understand that some users of some browsers may have had problems in the first 24 hours. Our thanks to Bruce for alerting us. This should now have been rectified but please contact me if you are experiencing difficulties. There are bound to be some teething problems.
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>I booked some tickets of Swan
>Lake today !!

Enjoy. I wish I could be there too.

Again, apologies - the website has been long in coming and we are all extremely grateful to Karen and Jane.

Of course no one photo expresses all of a personality. My feeling about the intro pic is that it would be fine as one of the Gallery, but that as the first intro to the site, it projects an image not so much glam as a little banal - exactly what I'd expect from Hollywood (where it appears it was shot), but NOT what I think Adam is.

Forgive me - I'm an editor; I think about these things. Of course, I could just keep quiet about them. I could occupy myself by repining over how I'm too far from Japan to see Swan Lake and scheming about how I'm going to get to London for On Your Toes.

We're delighted you like the site.

As most ballet.co postees know only too well, cast lists are very often not published before tickets go on sale, and even the when they are changes can happen at any time, right up to the last minute.

The scheduled performance dates were removed as we found that the delay in receiving information from Adam was longer than we had anticipated. There was a distinct possibility that the situation could arise where changes had been made to the cast in Japan which could not be shown on Adam's site for at least several hours, possibly even not until the next day, and the three of us felt that it would be confusing to have inaccurate information on Adam's site which would be different from the box office in Japan.

Hopefully this will not be a problem when Adam is dancing closer to home, as we feel very strongly that every attempt should be made to be as accurate as possible. After all, inaccurate information can be worse than no information at all!

Thank you for your kind comments about the site,
Best wishes,
Jane

Dear Jane and Karen
Thank you so much for your responce about my opinion.
I'm very happy and calm to read your message,
though I'm not living in Tokyo,I can just feel
you are strongly and sincerely thinking of Adam,
the audiences and fans.
And we'll read Adam's comments on the page of
Bunkamura Orchard Hall homepage,tomorrow,4th March!
Thank you very much for you two,and best much for Adam.
I've been appriciating that you'd tried to chice
the BEST and accurate information for all.
Perhaps a lot of fans are appriciateing of you and your site.
Again I say,"Thank you for your comments at all!"
and "could you permit to link your page(Adam's site) with
my homepage in Japan? "
http://www.fitweb.or.jp/~stkb

I'm sorry it is hardly to see from Eupopean form,maybe,
because I use Japanese language characters to write the pages.
It's supporting Mr.Kumakawa(Teddy) and K-Ballet personally
but many audiences are visiting to see,of cource,
we've been remembering Adam had performed and choreographed
to K-Ballet in the 2001 year "Six Faces"!

Now,I've already written the impression of the stages of
SWAN LAKE I've seen first in Japanese,next the Time
I try to write the review in English as possible as
I can naturally,by waiting the words and feelings
coming to pour.
Sincerely.
(Satoko.K)

I am so greatful to have Adam's website being launched before the Swan Lake performance in Japan, without this site we may not be able to hear his own voice so soon. Thank you again and again to Karen, Jane and Adam for their efforts.

hiroko

Warm regards,

Dani

The today's stage was very amazing!!!!
Tchaikovsky, Matthew Bourne and Adam Cooper are geniuses!
Today's I am very happy.
I cannot sleep today.

I want to thank everybody.
To Adam Cooper, Ben Wriight, Marguerite Porter, Steve Kirkham, Fiona-Marie Chivers, and other dancers and the staff of all.
They were very amazing!

My vocabulary is very poor.
I cannot convey enough an impression of the today's stage.
Sorry.�@
Bird