Mats Ek Works

Mats ek notable choreographic theater works include don giovanni 1999 and andromaque 2001 at the royal dramatic theatre.

Mats ek works.

The choreographer will retire his. Mats ek completed a dance course under donya feurer in the summer of 1962 and then studied theatre at mariebergs folk high school. His choreography like marmite is one of those topics that leave little room for middle ground. Paris last dance for the choreographer mats ek france musique declared.

Mats ek works within a very specific movement vocabulary that is used throughout all his work. When one says mats ek one usually gets two opposite reactions from the dance world. People will either show their enthusiasm and undying admiration or they will stick their tongues out. Mats ek in well known for his revisionist versions of the classic ballets.

His style is technical based and he uses dancers with strong ballet backgrounds. With his latest choreography fluke premiered in november 2002 at dansens hus in stockholm mats ek has once again created a work for the cullberg ballet this time in cooperation with the pork quartet. However his movements have a contemporary twist seen in the way ek plays with his dancer s lines and shapes often using flexed feet and bent legs. In 1982 he reinterpreted the classic ballet giselle and presented the public with a radically different work.

Ek choreographed several works over the next few years including saint george and the dragon 1976 and antigone 1979. He has also created his own work and most of the time his pieces have to do a lot with humor. At 70 however mats ek has decided he is ready to enjoy life as a regular pensioner in his native sweden. Mats ek the great swedish choreographer leaves the stage after 50 years of creation les echos said.

From 1966 to 1973 ek worked as stage director and assistant at the royal dramatic theatre of sweden and the marionette theatre in stockholm. He manages to use the abstractness of dance and literally flesh it out linking feelings ideas and memories to a body and does that body dance. Ek works in contrasts and polarities often setting up opposites so that movement can take place in between. In 1972 he re established his contact with dance and in 1973 began dancing with the cullberg ballet.

He is one of the most important names on the international dance scene.