The Apartment Mats Ek

In 1973 mats ek joined the cullberg ballet as a dancer.

The apartment mats ek. 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. Arthaus presents the ballet appartement of the legendary swedish choreographer mats ek which he created for the soloist dancers of the opéra national de paris the ballet is set to the music of the swedish rock band fleshquartet performing live on stage. Arthaus presents the ballet appartement of the legendary swedish choreographer mats ek which he created for the soloist dancers of the opéra national de paris the ballet is set to the music of the swedish rock band fleshquartet performing live on stage. 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.

Apartment is a ballet in one act choreography by mats ek. It simply gives a chain of scenes that reproduce the events of everyday life. Aesthetic value is not his first priority. In addition he later took theatre studies in norrköping.

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 he was born in malmö in 1945 and began a short period of dance studies in 1962 with donya feuer in stockholm. Translated into russian the title of the piece loses a pretty connotation since appartment in english apartment is of course a flat but the root is apart which means what it means. The apartment not written for classical music but accompanied by popular swedish group fleshquartet frequent collaborators of mats ek s. Ek studied dance and theatre and directed theatre at the marionette theatre the stockholm city theatre and the royal dramatic theatre.

Fleshquartet have recently garnered acclaim as the instrumentalists behind the wallander theme tune. Mats ek in a nutshell. For ek movement is a means of individual expression.