Mikael Karlsson

Play

Игра

Этот балет – игра, но совсем не детская. Она – важный этап творчества: раскрепощает и освобождает воображение. Под звуки ритмичного джаза Микаэля Карлссона Александр Экман создает живую хореографию и смелую сценографию и переносит зрителя в радостное ликование.

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Crew

Choreographer

Alexander Ekman

Set designer

Alexander Ekman

Costume Designer

Alexander Ekman, Xavier Ronze

Lighting Designer

Tom Visser

About

A sparkling personality on the contemporary dance scene, Swedish choreographer Alexander Ekman has been invited for the first time to work with the dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet. Trained at the Swedish Royal Ballet, he danced with the Nederlands Dans Theater and the Ballet Cullberg before turning to choreography. His language, both visceral and tinged with humour, combines theatricality and classical and contemporary vocabulary alike. Best known for the spectacular quality of his pieces with their dreamlike imagery, he fills the stage of the Palais Garnier with metallic structures, dancers suspended in space, elevations…
A surprising production carried along by enticing rhythms and communicative energy.