Mats Ek Giselle

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.

Mats ek giselle. Giselle one of the great ballets of the 19th century tells of the unrequited love of the country girl giselle. Mats ek then a young choreographer takes on giselle monstre sacre of romantic ballet. 1982 ballet cullberg in stockholm. 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. 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. In addition he later took theatre studies in norrköping. Duke albrecht disguised as a peasant wheedles his way into her affections until she is forced to realize that he is in fact in love with bathilde.

Swedish choreographer mats ek ranks world wide as a specialist for telling old ballet stories in new forms. 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.