By now guillem was the world s most famous ballerina and probably its most vocal too about.
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In march 2002 guillem after making it quite clear that she thought the royal ballet was too hidebound in repertory succeeded in getting the world renowned modernist mats ek into covent garden to stage his cartoonish version of carmen set to rodion shchedrin s jazzy revision of bizet s opera music.
He is the son of the famous choreographer birgit cullberg and actor anders ek.
Mats ek in a nutshell.
The voice of the embodied other in all of us.
In addition he later took theatre studies in norrköping.
His mother birgit cullberg was a dancer.
Actress malin ek is his twin sister and dancer actor niklas ek is his older brother.
As a young man ek initially trained in dance with lilian karina and donya feuer but shifted to drama which he studied at the marieborg folks college.
This is the case for mats ek artist provocateur keen observer of social issues and master of a movement that is as deeply psychological as it is physical.
In the winter of 2010 he danced in orphée directed and choreographed by mats ek at the royal opera in stockholm and the royal dramatic theatre in stockholm with the tempest 2010 11.
Or better said he was but not through facts not in the objective external world.
Mats ek is a leading swedish dance and ballet choreographer dancer and stage director.
20012 13 he was assisting mats ek with his latest creation for the royal swedish ballet with julia romeo 2013 he was teaching mats ek s carmen to sylvie.
A new one hour documentary the choreographer mats ek offers a glimpse diving into the 68 year old master s process as he created juliet romeo on the royal swedish ballet.
Mats ek is the son of anders ek one of sweden s most celebrated actors and birgit cullberg the choreographer and artistic director for the cullberg ballet company he was born in malmö in 1945 and began a short period of dance studies in 1962 with donya feuer in stockholm.
Available to rent on vimeo for 4 99 the film shows viewers how he seams steps together problem solves puzzles in the movement and gets his cast to display the subtle.
He did it through the feelings of the characters.
The swedish choreographer and stage director mats ek was born into artistic royalty.
Ek was born in mälmo sweden on the 18 th of april 1945 to birgit cullberg dancer choreographer and founder of cullberg ballet and anders ek one of ingmar bergman s favourite actors.
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At 17 he participated in a modern dance class led by choreographer donya feuer.
And not through our socially deeply codified body language like when you wave your hand meaning good bye but by using a far more instinctive one that makes you press a.
