Mats Ek
Mats Ek (born April 18, 1945 in Malmö ) is a Swedish dancer , choreographer and director .
biography
Mats Ek was born into a family of artists; his mother was the choreographer Birgit Cullberg , his father the actor Anders Ek .
career
He didn't get into dancing until he was 27. After dancing a role with his twin sister as a child and completing a course in Graham technique at 17 , he first decided to go to the theater and from 1965 studied drama at Marieborg Volks College. This was followed by a job at the puppet theater, Marionetteatern and the Royal Drama Theater in Stockholm until 1973 (with Ingmar Bergman, among others ).
In 1972 Ek resumed his dance training and joined the Cullberg Ballet , directed by his mother . In 1975 he went to Düsseldorf as a dancer for the ballet of the Deutsche Oper and in 1976 created his first choreography for the Cullberg Ballet. From 1978 he shared the artistic direction of her company with his mother and took it over entirely from 1985 to 1993.
The company became internationally known under Ek with newly designed choreographies for Giselle (1982) and Schwanensee (1987). In 1980/81 he also danced and choreographed for the Nederlands Dans Theater . When Ek left the Cullberg Ballet in 1993, he wrote and choreographed Dance with Your Neighbor (Dans met Nästan), which he also directed. His next work was a dance theater version of Don Juan based on Molière .
This was followed by a break, which he ended in November 2000. He produced two dance videos with Sylvie Guillem . Today Mats Ek works for various international dance theaters, studies his choreographies and directs.
Works (selection)
- Kalffektorn (after Georg Büchner's Wozzeck ) (1976)
- St. George and the Dragon (1976)
- The Officer's Servant (1976)
- Soweto (1977)
- Bernarda (original version of Bernardas Hus , based on Federico García Lorcas Bernarda Alba's house ) (1978)
- Giselle (1982)
- Le Sacre du Printemps (1984)
- Parking (The Park) (1987)
- Gräs (grass) (1987)
- Swan Lake (1987)
- Gamla barn (Old Children) (1989)
- Carmen (1992)
- Opinionless Willows (1992)
- She Was Black (1995)
- Rök (Rauch) (1995) (TV production, later stage version Solo för två - Solo for two 1996)
- Sleeping Beauty (1996)
- En slags (A kind of ...) (1997)
- På Norbotten (1999)
- Don Giovanni (1999)
- Down North (1999)
- Apartment (2000)
- Andromaque (2001)
- FLUKE (2002)
- Pas de Danse (2005)
- Pic Nic (2007)
- Fireplace (2008)
- Ajö , based on the piano sonata op. 111 by Ludwig van Beethoven , in 2010 at Dansens Hus in Stockholm with Sylvie Guillem .
- Bye (2012)
- Juliet och Romeo , choreography and staging 2013, Royal Stockholm Opera .
- Utvandrarna
Award
- 2000: Henrik Steffens Prize , Hamburg
- 2016: European Theater Prize
literature
- Giannandrea Poesio: Mats Eck . in: Dancing Times. October 2003. (online English)
- Mats Ek in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
- Anne do Paço: Echoes of Romanticism. Works by Johannes Brahms in ballets by Martin Schläpfer and Mats Ek. In: Beatrix Borchard and Kerstin Schüssler-Bach (eds.): Brahms studies. Volume 18. Johannes Brahms Society International Association eV Georg Olms Verlag, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York 2017, pp. 45–58, ISBN 978-3-48715-648-4 .
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Web links
- Literature by and about Mats Ek in the catalog of the German National Library
- Mats Ek in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ derStandard.at: European Theater Prize: Small group of gentlemen in Wallachia . Article dated April 27, 2016, accessed November 29, 2017.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Ek, Mats |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malmo |