Former Rhythm in Shoes dancer gets role in Broadway Cirque show

Rhythm in Shoes members Fred Garbo (left) and Nate Cooper perform an acrobatic juggling routine during a vaudeville show held at Carillon Historical Park in 2003. (STAFF ARCHIVE PHOTO).

Rhythm in Shoes members Fred Garbo (left) and Nate Cooper perform an acrobatic juggling routine during a vaudeville show held at Carillon Historical Park in 2003. (STAFF ARCHIVE PHOTO).
Arts & Entertainment
Jan 5, 2016
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Nate Cooper, best known locally as a member of the former dance troupe Rhythm in Shoes, has been cast in Cirque du Soleil's "Paramour," the organization's first production created specifically for Broadway.

The 38-member cast, according to a BroadwayWorld announcement, will include actors, dancers and renowned aerialists, acrobats and circus arts performers covering the disciplines of aerial strap artists, Chinese pole, contortion, juggling, Russian beam, teeterboard, tumbling, trampoline, trapeze and more. Cast members and the creative team are from 13 different countries and five continents.

Cooper, the son of talented Dayton dancer/singer Sharon Leahy and stepson of singer/musician Rick Good, is a physical comedian who is also an acrobat and juggler and has appeared in the Cirque Las Vegas show, “The Beatles Love.”

Local filmmaker David Sherman, a friend of Cooper’s, saw him perform in Vegas. “He can do things with wheels no one else can do!” Sherman said. He added that Cooper portrayed the ‘Fool on the Hill’ in the Cirque Vegas production.

The Broadway show will begin previews on Saturday, April 16 and open on Broadway on Wednesday, May 25 at the Lyric Theatre.

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