Born in Great Britain. A graduate of the Royal Ballet School in London (2012). From 2012 to 2019 and again from 2020 to 2022 he danced with the Bayerisches Staatsballett in Munich, rising from soloist to principal. In 2019–2020 Jonah Paul Cook was a soloist with the Ballett Zürich and a guest artist with the Royal Ballet of Flanders. From 2022 to 2023 he was a leading soloist of the Moscow State Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre.
His repertoire includes:
Giselle (Hilarion) – choreography by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa, production by Peter Wright;
Raymonda (Abderakhman) – choreography by Marius Petipa, revised by Ray Barra;
Don Quixote (Espada) – choreography by Alexander Gorsky, revised by Ray Barra;
Symphony in C (First Movement) – choreography by George Balanchine;
Romeo and Juliet (Romeo) – choreography by John Cranko;
Spartacus (Crassus) – choreography by Yuri Grigorovich;
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander) and The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer) – choreography by John Neumeier;
Anna Karenina (Count Alexei Vronsky) – choreography by Christian Spuck;
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Mad Hatter and Jack) – choreography by Christopher Wheeldon;
The Nutcracker (Drosselmeyer) – choreography by Yuri Possokhov;
roles in productions by Pina Bausch, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, Wayne McGregor, Marco Goecke, Russell Maliphant, Akram Khan, Liam Scarlett and Andrey Kaydanovskiy.
As choreographer:
Creator of one-act ballets Played (to music by Mikael Tariverdiev, Neil Young and Elvis Presley) and Rachmaninoff. In Memoriam (to music by Sergei Rachmaninoff), as well as duets Nothing to Lose (to music by Édith Piaf and Debout sur le Zinc), The Knife Cuts the Fabric (to music by Chet Baker) and The Wanderer (to music by Bob Dylan).
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