Mats Ek Giselle 1982

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Mats ek giselle 1982. Century classic of the romantic ballet such as giselle most ballet companies might simply dance it. The original version on a libretto by théophile gautier and music by adolphe adam tells the story of how giselle a poor girl seduced by a deceitful nobleman dies when. This work is to romantic ballet what don juan is to classical theatre or carmen to french opera. By patricia boccadoro paris 13 july 2004 the swedish choreographer mats ek made dance history in 1982 with his highly successful essentially non romantic re interpretation of giselle performed by the ballet cullberg.

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. Mats ek then a young choreographer takes on giselle monstre sacre of romantic ballet. En un soberbio entorno entre mármoles y terciopelos azules el ballet de la opera de lyon puso en danza a su giselle aquella que coreografiada en 1982 por mats ek es sin duda una de las más pertinentes versiones del gran ballet romántico original. After leaving the cullberg ballet mats ek became guest choreographer with major international dance companies.

On the other hand the giselle by contemporary choreographer mats ek rst produced in 1982 for the cullberg ballet breaks away from these traditions. In addition he later took theatre studies in norrköping. 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. Widely reputed to be a masterpiece of re interpretation of the classical giselle ek s giselle not only modi es the narrative the roles and natures of.

This his first time the choreographer made his re reading or reconstruction of a piece of classical ballet choreography much milder than either of the later more drastic. Already well established in the 1980s and much applauded mats ek shook the critics with his first reinterpretation of the classical ballet piece giselle 1982. While many choreographers had revisited ballet classics no one had yet dared to stage such a radically different interpretation particularly of giselle the most famous of.