Alexander Ekman

choreographer

Born in Stockholm in 1984, Ekman received his dance training at the Royal Ballet School in his home city. After a first engagement with the Royal Ballet in Stockholm in 2001, he moved to the Nederlands Dans Theater (NDT) in 2002 and then to the Cullberg Ballet in 2005. In 2006 he celebrated his first success with The Swingle Sisters at theInternational Choreography competition in Hanover, and his breakthrough came in the same year with Flockwork for the NDT. From then on, Ekman concentrated on choreography and created Cacti (2010), Left Right Left Right (2012), Maybe Two (2013), FIT (2018) and Four Relations (2020) for the NDT. In 2009 he produced the dance film 40 Meters Under with the Cullberg Ballet, which was broadcast on Swedish television, and in 2014 he created the video projections for Mats Ek's Stockholm production of Roland Schimmelpfennig's theatre text Greifswalder Strasse (Swedish: Hållplats). In 2010, together with Medhi Walerski, Ekman created the piece La la land for the Gothenburg Opera House Ballet and Hubbub for the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, for which the piece Tuplet was also created in 2012. In 2011, Ekman created Ekman's Triptych - A study of Entertainment for the Cullberg Ballet, in 2014 he created his own version of Swan Lake for the Norwegian National Ballet, in 2015 his own version of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Ballet in Stockholm, in 2016 COW for the SemperOper Ballet, in 2017 Play for the Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris, in 2019 LIB for Staatsballett Berlin in 2019 and finally the full-length piece Hammer for the Gothenburg Opera House Ballet in 2022.

Cacti will be the first work by Alexander Ekman to be staged at Bayerisches Staatsballett in the 2025/26 season.

(Information as of March 2025)