#mats Ek

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Stéphane Bullion farewell to Paris Opera Ballet stage

Pics by Agathe Poupeney

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Rite of Spring - Mats Ek choreography

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I'm curious why you dislike Mats Ek? Is it personal? Something about his style? Or...?

Disclaimer: I don't know much about contemporary technique and the bones of it, I've only taken 3 years of it and don't really know anything about the different schools so this is based entirely on my opinions of what I see and my ballet-intensive knowledge.

It's his style, especially his connection of his movements to the music. The vast majority of the music he uses is much more legato, smooth and connected and flowy while his choreography is jerky and stiff and sharp so it's all very disjointed and disconnected. It feels as though the beauty of the music is wasted. His choreography always has a feeling of...slouchiness, I guess? I'm not sure how to explain it, except the dancers just seem shlumped over, so it's a weird visual of slouched but too sharp at the same time. He also tends to turn things into caricatures and cartoonish in a way that I find unpleasant, case in point his Giselle. Idk, I can see why people find him to be a genius, but I'm not one of those people. To put into perspective, I would say my favorite contemporary choreographers are probably Ilya Zhivoi, Alvin Ailey (obviously lol), and Matthew Bourne with Ksenia Zvereva a close fourth.

[lavotha]

The Summer Dances with passion in Monte-Carlo

[thingsmk1120sayz]

For Flower the second goalie with the most wins in NHL history

Flower has 552 wins

Martin Brodeur has 691

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[wildaboutmnhockey]

Off to Sweden they go!

[yes-perwallstedt]

Comparing these pictures to last night’s walk in photos is like seeing one of those things where they show shelter pets before and after adoption.

[blue-boo18]

Have some decency…

[janaknandini-singh999]

currently thinking about how even the most cruel and cold emperor Aurangzeb got so melted and mesmerized by a Hindu classical dancer mistress that he legit FAINTED on seeing her for the first time in a garden

full story here

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Stéphane Bullion & Ludmila Pagliero

Another Place rehearsals, Mats Ek @ Paris Opera Ballet

©  Ann Ray (Anne Deniau)

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Ekkie collecting his children

*not my gif*

[miss-mollys-ballet-blog]

That moment when you find a new video of Hugo Marchand and get super excited but then realize it’s a Mats Ek piece and you’ll just want to gouge your eyeballs out the entire time because not even Hugo can save Ek.

It’s okay, I’ll just rewatch the video of him being named Etoile for the billionth time because HIS REACTION AND SMILE WERE SO CUTE AND PURE AND HAPPY AND I CANNOT STILL EVEN AFTER 5 YEARS it’s a sweet video!

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I bet bheem likes ladoo flavored condom

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The Minnesota Wild at their annual Strike It Wild event