Mats Ek
Choreographer and Dancer
Movie review: 'La Danse'...dance, as a practitioner or a serious aficionado, and you many find the film frustrating. If watching Emanuel Gat or Mats Ek choreograph is your idea of a good time, prepare to be disappointed. Don't know a Swedish choreographer when you... In this article: Frederick Wiseman, Mats Ek, Paris, and Maine |
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Rotten Tomatoes: Movies | November 19, 2009
100% La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
...young men and women - among them Nicolas Le Riche, Marie-Agnes Gillot, and Agnes Letestu - rehearsing the choreography of Mats Ek, Wayne McGregor, Rudolf Nureyev and Pina Bausch. For balletomanes and the curious alike, LA DANSE serves...
In this article: Ballet, Frederick Wiseman, Paris, Palais Garnier, Nicolas Le Riche, Wayne McGregor, Pina Bausch, and Rudolf Nureyev
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Wikipedia | October 24, 2009
Mats Ek
Mats Ek (born April 18, 1945) is a leading Swedish dance and ballet choreographer, dancer and stage director. He was the manager of the Cullberg Ballet from 1985 to 1993. Ek was born in Malmo in 1945, the son of the Royal Dramatic Theatre...
In this article: Birgit Cullberg, Stockholm, Swan Lake, Giselle, Sleeping Beauty, Kurt Jooss, Emmy awards, and Anders Ek
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Houston Chronicle | October 16, 2009
Walsh's <em>Firebird</em> flies to its own beat
...daring modern ballet about a couple waging a violent personal war. Its style and rawness remind me of the great Swedish choreographer Mats Ek's work. (Is anything really original anymore?) The Woman and Her Husband, at various points, each...
In this article: Igor Stravinsky, The Firebird, Ballets Russes, and Afternoon of a Faun
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Silvia Azzoni
...and The Little Mermaid. Her repertoire also includes the roles in the ballets by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Mats Ek, Christopher Wheeldon and Jirji Bubenicek. As a guest ballerina she performs in Munich, Moscow, Milan,...
In this article: Silvia Azzoni, The Little Mermaid, Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Christopher Wheeldon, and Lera Auerbach
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Chicago Sun-Times | September 25, 2009
Baryshnikov and Laguna shine in Three Solos and a Duet
...from "Solo for Two" (danced primarily by Laguna, with a few fleeting but crucial appearances by Baryshnikov), is the work of Mats Ek, the master Swedish choreographer married to Laguna. Wearing a long, coppery-orange dress that suggests a...
In this article: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Mikhail Glinka, Trademark, Ingmar Bergman, and Fred Astaire
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Honolulu Star Bulletin | September 11, 2009
Graceful power
...stint in Europe earlier this year. Billed as a contemporary dance performance, "Three Solos and a Duet" features choreography by Mats Ek (Laguna's husband), Alexei Ratmansky and Benjamin Millepied. Ek's pieces are "Place," created...
In this article: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Benjamin Millepied, Hawaii, Kennedy Center Honors, 'iolani School, and Mark Morris
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L.A. Times - The Arts | September 06, 2009
Review: Baryshnikov , a lion in winter
They get it, brilliantly. In the first half of the program, Baryshnikov makes fleeting appearances in an excerpt from Mats Ek's "Solo for Two," serving as a kind of phantom or memory as Ana Laguna traces a harrowing cycle of deep, wild...
In this article: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Benjamin Millepied, Phillip Glass, Stockholm, and Los Angeles Times
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Da Kine
...a Duet," a show by ballet legend Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna. The couple will perform "Place," a dance created for them by Mats Ek, and "Solo for Two." Then Baryshnikov will do a solo by Alexei Ratmansky, former artistic director...
In this article: Surfrider Foundation, Magic Island, and Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Honolulu Advertiser | July 22, 2009
Two ballet legends to perform in Hawaii
Baryshnikov and Laguna will kick off Ballet Hawaii's 2009 fall season in a performance of "Place," which Mats Ek created especially for them. Ek also conceived "Solo for Two," originally made for the Cullberg Ballet. Finally, Baryshnikov...
In this article: Mikhail Baryshnikov, Hawaii, and Continental Airlines
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Birgit Cullberg
...Elna Westerstrom, Cullberg was born in Nykoping and married from 1942 to 1949 to Anders Ek. She was the mother of Niklas Ek, Mats Ek, and Malin Ek. Cullberg studied ballet under Kurt Jooss-Leeder and Lillian Karina and was a member of the...
In this article: Birgit Cullberg, University of Stockholm, Anders Ek, Nykoping, and London
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Mats Ek (born April 18, 1945) is a leading Swedish dance and ballet choreographer, dancer and stage director.
Ek was born in Malmö. He is the son of the Royal Dramatic Theatre actor Anders Ek and famous choreographer Birgit Cullberg.
Mats Ek was the manager of the Cullberg Ballet in 1985-93.
Born in 1945 as the youngest son of Birgit Cullberg, was not particularly drawn to dance as a child. He did not dance during his youth apart from a role at the age of eight together with his twin sister in a ballet titled Medea choreographed by Birgit Cullberg. At the age of 17, he followed a summer dance course (modern) taught by Donya Feuier. Following this course he realized that he preferred theatre and hence pursued a theatrical study at the Marieborg Volks College in Sweden. From 1966 until 1973, he acted as the director for the Marionett Theater as well as the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm.
In 1972, however, Ek took up his dance training again and joined the Cullberg Ballet. During 1975, Ek formed part of the corps de ballet for the Ballett der Deutschen Oper am Rhein in Dsseldorf. And in 1976, he made his first choreography titled The Officer's Servant for the Cullberg Ballet. In 1978, Ek became, together with Birgit Cullberg, artistic director of the Cullberg Ballet, until 1985 when the responsibility became his entirely. This position he fulfilled until 1993. During the season 1980-1981, he was associated with the Nederlands Dans Theater as dancer as well as choreographer.
In some of Ek's former choreographies, traditions of Kurt Jooss and of his mother, Birgit Cullberg may be apparent. He uses classical as well as modern dance techniques. Social engagement of psychological dilemmas combined with subtle humor, form the basis of his choreographies. For Ek, movement is a means of individual expression. Aesthetic value is not his first priority.
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