Mats Ek Sleeping Beauty Story

Mats ek in a nutshell.

Mats ek sleeping beauty story.

The inspiration for this ballet was a young drug addict ek saw during a walk in geneva switzerland. The cullberg ballet performs a season of mats ek ballets at the edinburgh playhouse 0870 606 3424 from today till september 2. 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. In 1996 ek took on the classic fairytale of sleeping beauty.

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. Quite a different story than the one i grew up with. What do heroin fish soup and fairy godmothers have in common. 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.

Long before petipa and tchaikovsky refined it into a celebration of imperial power the story of the sleeping beauty had strange scary teeth. Swedish choreographer mats ek regularly causes a sensation with his exciting new interpretations of famous classical ballets. Mats ek provides us with. In 1996 mats ek.

Ek gently pokes fun at ballet s conventionality while examining the world of ballet and classical dance through modern eyes. Princess aurora vanessa de lignière carabousse gamal gouda prince sigfried eytan sivak the gold fairy torunn robstad the silver fairy talia paz the. 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. Those familiar with ek s choreography know not to expect the traditional.

Several of mats ek s ballets have been adapted for television two of them received emmy awards. When in 1996 he took on that most sugary ballet of the tsarist romantic period sleeping beauty he also updated the action ek s aurora is not a sheltered princess but a rebellious teenager who does not feel at ease in her parent s house and flees into a world of. Giselle opens today a triple bill on august 27 and sleeping beauty.