Royal Swedish Ballet's Julia and Romeo: surreal and modern

Anthony Lomuljo as Romeo and Madeline Woo as Julia in Mats Ek's Julia and Romeo

Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek's Julia and Romeo

Calum Lowden as Paris and Madeline Woo as Julia in Mats Eks' Julia and Romeo

Royal Swedish Ballet in Mats Ek's Julia and Romeo

Anthony Lomuljo as Romeo and Madeline Woo as Julia in Mats Ek's Julia and Romeo

Von Graham Watts, 24 April 2023

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“Tybalt’s wet-look, fake leather trousers suggested that he had just returned from a night’s clubbing”

Rezensierte Veranstaltung: Royal Swedish Opera, Stockholm, am 21 April 2023

Julia and Romeo (Daniel Goldsmith, Mats Ek)

Royal Swedish Ballet

Marc Piollet, Musikalische Leitung

Magdalena Åberg, Bühnenbild, Kostüme

Linus Fellbom, Licht

Royal Swedish Orchestra

Dawid Kupinski, Tanz

Anthony Lomuljo, Tanz

Madeline Woo, Tanz

Daniel Norgren Jensen, Tanz

Dmitry Zagrebin, Tanz

Ivan Auzely, Tanz

Les duos contrastés de « Dialogues II » au TCE

Julie Jozwiak, 26th April

L'art du duo est à l'honneur au Théâtre des Champs-Élysées dans le cadre de TranscenDanses, avec des pièces courtes mais intenses de Mats Ek, Samantha Lynch, Akram Khan et Sharon Eyal.

***11

Norwegian National Ballet's Dialogues II: brief but brilliant

Graham Watts, 3rd April

A brief but excellent programme of five duets showcased on the main stage of the Den Norske Opera.

***11

Sharon Eyal et Mats Ek à Garnier, ou les dérives de l’amour

Laurine Mortha, 27th March

Sharon Eyal inaugure la soirée avec la re-création d’OCD Love, puis l’Opéra de Paris rend hommage à l’inénarrable chorégraphe Mats Ek, qui fête ses 80 ans cette année, avec la reprise d’Appartement.

****1

Mats Ek's She was black + A Sort Of ...: thrillingly captivating

Maggie Foyer, 6th June

Norwegian National Ballet's highly entertaining double bill of two of Mats Ek's most popular works is enthralling.

*****

Ek and Ekman's subversive double bill is enjoyable madness

Vikki Jane Vile, 21st February

The latest double bill from Staatsballett Berlin features witty, high energy and thought provoking works by Mats Ek and Alexander Ekman, though the audience may not fathom their meaning.

***11

A new Mats Ek Rite of Spring a leaving gift for ENB's Tamara Rojo

Graham Watts, 9th November

Ek's second, very different take on Stravinsky's Rite crowns an English National Ballet triple bill extolling the pure joy of dance and exposing the terror of forced marriage.

****1

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Graham Watts

Graham Watts is a freelance dance writer and critic writing regularly for Dancing Times, Dance Europe, Danza Europa, and many more publications. He regularly writes features for Sadler’s Wells, London Coliseum and La Scala. Chairman of the Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle in the United Kingdom and of the UK National Dance Awards he has interviewed many of the greatest names in dance including Maya Plisetskaya, Vladimir Vasiliev, Boris Eifman, Alexei Ratmansky, Andris Liepa, Sir Peter Wright, David Bintley and Dame Gillian Lynne. When not involved in dance Graham is a keen fencer, and has captained the British Sabre team.