Mats Ek Sleeping Beauty Story

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.

Mats ek sleeping beauty story.

Giselle opens today a triple bill on august 27 and sleeping beauty. Mats ek provides us with. Ek gently pokes fun at ballet s conventionality while examining the world of ballet and classical dance through modern eyes. Swedish choreographer mats ek regularly causes a sensation with his exciting new interpretations of famous classical ballets.

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. 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. Princess aurora vanessa de lignière carabousse gamal gouda prince sigfried eytan sivak the gold fairy torunn robstad the silver fairy talia paz the.

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. In 1996 mats ek. Long before petipa and tchaikovsky refined it into a celebration of imperial power the story of the sleeping beauty had strange scary teeth. Mats ek in a nutshell.

However on november 6 and 7 les grands ballets canadien de montreal will stretch the ballet horizons of edmonton audiences with mats ek s very modern take on sleeping beauty. 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. The inspiration for this ballet was a young drug addict ek saw during a walk in geneva switzerland. Quite a different story than the one i grew up with.

The cullberg ballet performs a season of mats ek ballets at the edinburgh playhouse 0870 606 3424 from today till september 2. What do heroin fish soup and fairy godmothers have in common. 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.