Originally from Liverpool, England, Carl Coomer began his training at the Wallasey School of ballet when he was 13 years old. In 1998, after only three years of dancing, Mr. Coomer was offered a scholarship to attend the Royal Ballet School under the direction of Dame Merle Park and then later under Gailene Stock.
Mr. Coomer danced with Houston Ballet for six seasons before joining Texas Ballet Theater in 2007. His repertoire includes a wide variety of roles, including leads in Ben Stevenson’s The Nutcracker, Giselle, Dracula, Four Last Songs, Three Preludes, Five Poems, Mozart Requiem, Coppélia, Swan Lake, Cleopatra, Peer Gynt, Romeo and Juliet, The Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella; John Cranko’s Onegin; George Balanchine’s Apollo, La Valse, The Four Temperaments, Theme and Variations; Christopher Wheeldon's Carnival of the Animals and DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse; Kenneth MacMillan’s Gloria and Manon; Paul Taylor’s Company B and In the Beginning; Julia Adam’s The Accidental; Stanton Welch’s Indigo, Red Earth, Blindness and Tutu; Christopher Bruce’s Sergeant Early’s Dream, Ghost Dances, Rooster and Hush; Glen Tetley’s Voluntaries; Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena; Hans Van Manen’s Grosse Fuge and Jiri Kylian’s Svadebka and Petite Mort.
Mr. Coomer has choreographed four world premieres for Texas Ballet Theater as well as a videographic project – Evolving (2012), Clann (2014), The Cavern Club (2015), Optimist (2017), and Henry VIII (2018).
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