Mats Ek Sleeping Beauty Story

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Mats ek sleeping beauty story.

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. What do heroin fish soup and fairy godmothers have in common. They are all ingredients in choreographer mats ek s reinvention of the ballet sleeping beauty currently being performed through the end of october with les grands ballet canadiens de montréal. In 1996 ek took on the classic fairytale of sleeping beauty.

The inspiration for this ballet was a young drug addict ek saw during a walk in geneva switzerland. Several of mats ek s ballets have been adapted for television two of them received emmy awards. He created sleeping beauty for the hamburg ballet 1996 a sort of for the nederlands dans theater 1997 and apartment for the paris opera 2000. Mats ek provides us with.

Mats ek in a nutshell. After giselle sleeping beauty and carmen mats ek put together yet another groundbreaking production with his 2013 stockholm opera version of shakespeare s mythic drama part of the opera company s celebrations of its 240th anniversary the swedish choreographer interprets romeo and juliet as less the story of a rivalry between two warring families the montagues and the capulets and. Those familiar with ek s choreography know not to expect the traditional. Ek gently pokes fun at ballet s conventionality while examining the world of ballet and classical dance through modern eyes.

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. Giselle opens today a triple bill on august 27 and sleeping beauty. Quite a different story than the one i grew up with. Though the sleeping beauty we know today exists in many versions the scenario is rarely changed significantly.

In 1996 mats ek. The cullberg ballet performs a season of mats ek ballets at the edinburgh playhouse 0870 606 3424 from today till september 2. Long before petipa and tchaikovsky refined it into a celebration of imperial power the story of the sleeping beauty had strange scary teeth.