Alexander Ekman

Directing

Alexander Ekman

Born 1984-01-12 · Stockholm, Sweden

Karl Wilhelm Alexander Ekman is a Swedish dancer, writer and choreographer.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Scenes from a Ferry poster
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A partially improvised and experimental choreographic installation performed by Alexander Ekman and dancers from the Royal Swedish Ballet. Based on Ingmar Bergman's TV-series "Scenes from a Marriage"

Scenes from a Ferry

2018

Eskapist poster
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In a new production for the Royal Swedish Ballet, Eskapist is an entrancing, enthralling testament to the power of dance.

Eskapist

2020

Play poster
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A dance music theatre piece that evokes the world of childhood and its careless pleasures. But beyond pure entertainment, this performance contemplates the meaning and the importance of play when we become adults. World stage premiere dec 7 2017, Paris.

Play

2018

Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer's Eye poster
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Four of Sweden's most innovative choreographers travel to Ingmar Bergman's home on Fårö to explore and get inspired. The result is a unique contemporary dance film.The renowned Swedish choreographers Alexander Ekman, Pär Isberg, Pontus Lidberg and Joakim Stephenson, with principal dancers Jenny Nilson, Nathalie Nordquist, Oscar Salomonsson and Nadja Sellrup from the Royal Swedish Ballet, interpret Ingmar Bergman through four unique dance performances reflecting on human relations and intense feelings. The dances are linked together with images of the epic natural beauty of Fårö and Bergman's poetic home Hammars, including the voice of the master himself - Ingmar Bergman - revealing his thoughts about movements and music.

Ingmar Bergman Through the Choreographer's Eye

2016

Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman poster
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Award-winning choreographer Alexander Ekman dives into the subject of creativity by meeting scientists, professors, artists, film directors and choreographers, with the goal of trying to understand every aspect of the phenomenon.

Kreativ: A Study in Creativity by Alexander Ekman

2017

A Swan Lake poster
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The Artist proposes to the distrustful and skeptical Producer the staging of a new ballet starring… swans? What is the story? That of Prince Siegfried and his love for the beautiful Odette, victim of the spell cast by the evil sorcerer Rothbart, an enchantment that turns her and her friends into swans when the light of day tears the dark shadows of night. (The Norwegian National Opera and Ballet, April 26th, 2014.)

A Swan Lake

2014

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A short Swedish dance film.

Fröt

2012

No artwork available
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A short Swedish dance film.

Fröt

2012