Mats Ek Influences

Mats ek is a leading swedish dance and ballet choreographer dancer and stage director.

Mats ek influences. The voice of the embodied other in all of us. Mats ek in a nutshell. In addition he later took theatre studies in norrköping. Actress malin ek is his twin sister and dancer actor niklas ek is his older brother.

He was the manager of the cullberg ballet from 1985 to 1993. His mother birgit cullberg was a dancer. He is the son of the famous choreographer birgit cullberg and actor anders ek. 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.

Especially in the re studies of swan lake giselle sleeping beauty or carmen he tries to construct alternative aesthetics more true to the ordinary man and life of today. At 17 he participated in a modern dance class led by choreographer donya feuer. 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. However he could use the fact that there were detectives looking for war to influence him because he could represent the conflict of war between the characters of hilarion and lloys.

Mats ek wanted to question the aesthetics of ballet and searched a different kind of beauty a new and anti romantic view of men and women in his works. The swedish choreographer and stage director mats ek was born into artistic royalty. Ek was born in malmö in 1945 the son of the royal dramatic theatre actor. 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.