Ballet Giselle Mats Ek

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. 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. 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. 1982 ballet cullberg in stockholm. Mats ek in a nutshell.

En un soberbio entorno entre mármoles y terciopelos azules el ballet de la opera de lyon puso en danza a su giselle aquella que coreografiada en 1982 por mats ek es sin duda una de las más pertinentes versiones del gran ballet romántico original. Keeping the original scenario the booklet written by théophile gautier and the music of adolphe adam mats ek highlighted the drama of the situation. 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. 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.

Giselle one of the great ballets of the 19th century tells of the unrequited love of the country girl giselle. As such giselle remains the hallmark of romantic ballet. 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. This work is to romantic ballet what don juan is to classical theatre or carmen to french opera.

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 his reinvention of classical ballet ek began with giselle choreographed in 1982 for the cullberg ballet. Swedish choreographer mats ek ranks world wide as a specialist for telling old ballet stories in new forms. 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.

Instead he took drama classes at marieborg college in norrkoping sweden in 1965.