He went on to produce plays and even worked with the legendary film and theatre director ingmar bergman during this time.
Ballet giselle mats ek.
Giselle one of the great ballets of the 19th century tells of the unrequited love of the country girl giselle.
The swedish choreographer mats ek in his reworking of giselle in 1982 for the cullberg ballet in stockholm had the nerve to push to the paroxysm a subject that was already latent.
Swedish choreographer mats ek ranks world wide as a specialist for telling old ballet stories in new forms.
Mats ek cullberg ballet revisionist giselle 1945 the young mats ek did not particularly want to be a dancer.
The original version on a libretto by théophile gautier and music by adolphe adam tells the story of how giselle a poor girl seduced by a deceitful nobleman dies when.
This work is to romantic ballet what don juan is to classical theatre or carmen to french opera.
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.
Keeping the original scenario the booklet written by théophile gautier and the music of adolphe adam mats ek highlighted the drama of the situation.
1982 ballet cullberg in stockholm.
Mats ek hizo historia con su innovadora versión revisionista de 1982 del ballet de adolphe adam giselle modificó la obra original y promulgó un espíritu romántico descarado y no trágico ek acabó con ese elemento para revertir la noción central del ballet que el amor siempre vence a la muerte.
Si la giselle de jules perrot et de jean coralli 1841 inspirée du livret écrit par théophile gauthier demeure l archétype du ballet romantique et l un des plus beaux ballets du xixe siècle la giselle de mats ek 1982 chorégraphiée sur la même partition d adolphe adam restera l un des plus beaux ballets du xxe siècle.
To dance fans the world over giselle is often thought about as the ballerina s piece d resistance a must if she is to advance in the world of classical ballet.
Mats ek then a young choreographer takes on giselle monstre sacre of romantic ballet.
In his reinvention of classical ballet ek began with giselle choreographed in 1982 for the cullberg ballet.
As such giselle remains the hallmark of romantic ballet.
Duke albrecht disguised as a peasant wheedles his way into her affections until she is forced to realize that he is in fact in love with bathilde.
Instead he took drama classes at marieborg college in norrkoping sweden in 1965.
