Mats Ek Carmen Review

Coreografia mats ek sylvie guillem massimo murru e jonathan cope 2002.

Mats ek carmen review. Because of this ballet i fell in love with the shchedrin version of carmen. Nowadays carmen suite is still performed by the bolshoi and ballet nacional de cuba and has recently been added to the mariinsky repertoire where ulyana lopatkina irma nioradze and yekaterina kondaurova have danced the title role. Carmen performed by the cullberg ballet choreography by mats ek music by bizet shchedrin 1994. I cannot think of any dancers who fit the roles as well as they did.

I ve watched this ballet about 10 times over and have never stopped loving it. Ana laguna carmen marc hwang josé yvan auzely escamillo pompea santoro micaela george elkin boaz cohem. Ek gives carmen many traditional male characteristics she smokes a cigar has wild hair sits with her legs wide apart and moves about with an aura of power. Décor and costumes marie louise ekman lighting design goran westrup arthaus 100 182 51 min dvd region code.

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. Reviewed in the united states on november 15 2011. 5 0 out of 5 stars bizet carmen mats ek the cullberg ballet. After leaving the cullberg ballet mats ek became guest choreographer with major international dance companies.

Classical cd reviews posted every day. 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. Mats ek s extensive production of ballets includes more than twenty works for the cullberg ballet among them sensational reworks of classics like giselle 1982 swan lake 1987 and carmen 1992. Mats ek has done it again.

Often expanding each gender to capture the sensibility of the other. Mats ek in a nutshell. This carmen was created for sweden s cullberg ballet in 1992 using shchedrin s suite. Mats ek visionaries innovators and diviners.