Mats Ek Giselle Review

Challenges for analysis leonard augustine choo g iselle is a two act ballet which originated in the 19th century.

Mats ek giselle review. Akram khan s much lauded giselle has a way to go before it competes with that by mats ek whose giselle is as mad as a hatter and incarcerated in an asylum or even marcia haydée s circus version for stuttgart ballet. Devastated giselle loses her mind and ends up in a psychiatric hospital. It is always difficult when a production has been praised to the hilt and comes with great expectations but khan s. Reworkings and mats ek s giselle.

Mats ek turned his giselle into the village idiot and the wilis into inhabitants of a mental hospital but the mechanics of the storytelling are both inefficient and overthought. 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. But mats ek has taken it apart reset its second act in an. Paris 13 august 2008 the swedish choreographer mats ek achieved international recognition with his brilliant re working of giselle for his own company the cullberg ballet in 1982 a work staged at the paris opera ballet in 1993 such was its success that he was invited to create appartement for the french company seven years later a work bringing back memories.

Albrecht ana laguna ballet contemporary dance cullberg ballet giselle hilarion lena wennergren luc bouy mat ek myrth neo classical ballet vanessa mcintosh yvan auzely i watched mats ek s giselle on dvd the other day and i was impressed his re interpretation of. 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 all romantic ballets created in paris one. Century classic of the romantic ballet such as giselle most ballet companies might simply dance it. Mats ek s january 10 2013 at 9 25 am posted in ballet review dance review dvd review 1 comment tags.

He set his version of giselle that tender romantic era love. Set to music by adolphe adam it was originally choreographed by jean coralli and jules perrot. Some might even rethink it. In his reworking of giselle mats ek highlights the drama of the situation by turning giselle into the simpleton of the village abused by a don juan come to visit to have a good time.

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. 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.