She co-wrote the story for Edward Scissorhands and recently co-adapted a new stage version of the film with director and choreographer Matthew Bourne.
He has collaborated on projects with leading directors, Trevor Nunn, Richard Eyre, Sam Mendes, Yukio Ninagawa and John Caird and has created dances and roles for such wide-ranging performers as Jonathan Pryce, Lynn Seymour, Dawn French, Adam Cooper, Julie Walters, Rowan Atkinson and Michael Sheen.
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In 1982 he enrolled at the Laban Centre for Movement and Dance (now Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance) in Deptford, southeast London, where he was awarded a B.A. in Dance Theatre.
Gospel of Matthew | Matthew | Matthew Flinders | Matthew McConaughey | Matthew Broderick | St Matthew Passion | Matthew Barney | Matthew Fox | Matthew Prior | Matthew Arnold | Matthew Sweet | Matthew Perry | Matthew C. Perry | Matthew the Apostle | Matthew Herbert | Matthew Prior (cricketer) | Matthew Wolfenden | Matthew Shipp | Matthew Pearl | Matthew Fox (actor) | Matthew Boulton | Stephen Bourne | Matthew Shepard | Matthew Pinsent | Matthew Parker | Matthew of Ajello | Matthew Lillard | Matthew Fontaine Maury | Jason Bourne | The Bourne Identity |
He has created ballets with Karole Armitage, Matthew Bourne, Alexander Ekman, Wayne McGregor, Hofesh Shechter, Cayetano Soto, Ken Ossola, Georg Reischl and danced further works by Maurice Béjart, William Forsythe, David Parsons and Twyla Tharp, amongst others.
Piper has danced the role of The Swan (principal role) in Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake for two seasons in London and in the production's world tour.
He was a member of Wayne McGregor’s Random Dance Company for five years and also worked with companies including Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, besides participating in the Jerwood Bank Project 2006 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.