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Alexander Ekman's Cacti is the zany highlight of the evening! 

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.

Let's not split hairs: Alexander Ekman's Lib and Sharon Eyal's Strong flooded the opera with the Berlin young-and-hip art scene.

NDT2's triple bill of contemporary ballet that featured works by Marco Goecke, Johan Inger and Alexander Ekman in Alkmaar drew an uneven reception.

Eclectic and contemporary, The Joffrey Ballet reimagines human and kinetic beauty.

NDT2 brings a mixed programme to Sadler's Wells, as part of its UK tour. With works by Sol Leon and Paul Lightfoot, Edward Clug, Hans Van Manen and Alexander Ekman 

NDT2 is an excellent company, presenting fresh, interesting and exceptionally well-performed pieces in this new tour.

In 12 highly dynamic and buoyant scenes, Alexander Ekman’s new ballet COW is at once theater, dance, social commentary and divine comedy. 

With INTENSIO, a program of new dances he commissioned, Simkin is clearly making a major move.

Nederlands Dans Theater II continues to dleight with the second mixed bill of their 2015 season, which features works by Johan Inger, Alexander Ekman, Edward Clug and Jiří Pokorný

Boston Ballet's triple bill Pricked, demonstrates the company's versatility both technically and expressively, while showcasing ballet’s traditional past in Études and its more recent incarnations in D.M.J. 1953-1977 and Cacti. 

An unmissable Christmas mass from awe-inspiring dancers of Nederlands Dance Theatre. Lambrecht Wessels reviews at Lucent Danstheater, Den Hague.

Here are a company of versatile dancers. In the course of an evening they shifted from the hunched choreography of Hofesh Shechter to the long-limbed legginess of Crystal Pite, and also funny man Alexander Ekman’s rhythmic and irrational use of the body. In their first UK visit, Cedar Lake bring buckets of American performing talent but borrow some more familiar European choreographic skills.

Ein ergreifender dreiteiliger Tanzabend über Trauer, Angst und Mitmenschlichkeit.

Les jeunes danseurs du NDT 2 interprètent avec brio les œuvres d’Alexander Ekman, Marco Goecke, Sol León et Paul Lightfoot sur la scène du Théâtre National de Chaillot.

Il y a cent ans, naissait le cinéaste suédois Ingmar Bergman. A l’occasion de ce centenaire, le chorégraphe Mats Ek et les étoiles montantes de la chorégraphie suédoise Alexander Ekman et Johan Inger, rendent hommage à cet artiste à l’âme libre, pionnier du septième art et grand amateur de danse.

Avec Play, Alexander Ekman métamorphose la scène du Palais Garnier en un vaste espace de jeu et signe à la fois une chorégraphie vivante et une scénographie audacieuse, qui transportent le spectateur dans une liesse réjouissante.