MATS EK – AS SEEN BY PHOTOGRAPHER LESLEY LESLIE-SPINKS Mats Ek is currently one of the world’s most successful choreographers. Since his debut in 1976 with The Officer’s Servant and Saint George and the Dragon for the Cullberg Ballet, his ballets have captivated international dance audiences and his reworking of classics such as Giselle, Swan Lake and Sleeping Beauty have themselves become classics. Photographer Lesley Leslie-Spinks has had the privilege of documenting Mats Ek’s success as a choreographer and director from his debut to The Cherry Orchard at the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm in 2010. With special insight and sensitivity, she has managed to enter his peculiar and elusive world. She has perhaps succeeded due to her both experiencing and being part of “Mats Ek’s dynamic, deeply human commitment, wanting to talk about important issues, life and death.” It is probably among like-minded people, where total commitment rules, that Lesley Leslie-Spinks is most content: “Mats Ek’s dedication, like that of Robert Wilson and Suzanne Osten, is a kind of obsession and I love obsession.” In conjunction with the exhibition, Bokförlaget Max Ström published a book about Mats Ek with photographs by Lesley Leslie-Spinks and text by Margareta Sörenson, which will be on sale in the Museum shop for a special price of 330 SEK during the run of the exhibition.
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