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Mats Ek, born in Sweden in 1945, has for thirty years been a highly esteemed choreographer throughout the world. He studied dance and theatre and directed theatre from 1966-73 at the Marionette Theatre, Stockholm City Theatre and the Royal Dramatic Theatre. In 1973 Mats Ek joined the Cullberg Ballet as a dancer. In 1976 he began choreographing for the company with immediate success. For ten years, until 1993, Mats Ek was the
artistic director of the Cullberg Ballet, succeeding his mother Birgit Cullberg.

Mats Ek´s extensive production of ballets includes some twenty works for the Cullberg Ballet, a few of them rewrites of the great classics like Giselle (1982), Carmen (1992) and Swan Lake (1987). After leaving the Cullberg Ballet, Mats Ek became guest choreographer with major international dance companies. He created Sleeping Beauty for the Hamburg Ballet (1996), A Sort O for the Nederlands Dans Theater (1997) and Apartment for the Paris Opera (2000). Several of Mats Eks ballets have been adapted for television, two of them received Emmy awards.

Mats Ek is also acclaimed for his choreographed theatre works. Among them are Don Juan (1999) and Andromaque (2001) at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. With his latest choreography FLUKE, premiered in November 2002 at Dansens Hus in Stockholm, Mats Ek has once again created a work directly for the Cullberg Ballet, this time in cooperation with the music ensemble Flesh Quartet.