Clover Roope obituary

Ballet dancer and choreographer who taught in London and Mexico and at the Rambert school in TwickenhamIn 1960 the dancer Clover Roope, who has died aged 82, created the role of one of the fiancee’s friends in Kenneth MacMillan’s Le Baiser de la Fée (The Fairy’s Kiss) for the Royal Ballet. But, an adventurous and passionate dance artist no longer content with being a fairy or swan, she moved to the pioneering Western Theatre Ballet in Bristol, the first company based in