In step with each other
Adam Cooper and Sarah Wildor have much more in common than their marriage. Since leaving the Royal Ballet, they have both used their freedom to spread their artistic wings, they tell Nadine Meisner for The Independent

There is more to life than dance and more to a performing career than elegantly pointing your toes, even if, like Adam Cooper and Sarah Wildor, you do it rather well. As classical dancers, they reached the peak of their profession. They became Royal Ballet principals, they were showered with roles, they met each other - and thenthey left. It's not easy to leave the Royal Opera House's cushioned environment for the great outdoors. But those who do, do it for the freedom and variety. In Cooper and Wildor's case this means the chance to tackle musicals such as Rodgers and Hart's On Your Toes, which comes to London's Royal Festival Hall on Monday, 18 months after its premiere at the Leicester Haymarket.

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