Paris 13 july 2004 the swedish choreographer mats ek made dance history in 1982 with his highly successful essentially non romantic re interpretation of giselle performed by the ballet cullberg.
Mats ek dance.
Mats ek born 18 april 1945 is a swedish dance and ballet choreographer dancer and stage director.
Legendary swedish choreographer mats ek s ballet was created for the dancers of the opéra national de paris and is here danced by star names including nicolas le riche and marie agnès gillot the name appartement comes both from the word for a living space but also from associations with separation and isolation.
The young mats ek did not particularly want to be a dancer.
Mats ek completed a dance course under donya feurer in the summer of 1962 and then studied theatre at mariebergs folk high school.
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.
However his childhood ballet classes weren t completely lost on him.
Instead he took drama classes at marieborg college in norrkoping sweden in 1965.
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.