An evening in two acts by Sweden's most daring choreographer. 

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Main stage, Barnhusgatan 12-14

Duration

127 minutes (incl 40 min break)

24 Apr

19:00

25 Apr

19:00

26 Apr

15:00

The Gothenburg Opera Dance Company's biggest audience success ever, with euphoric audiences, high ticket sales and sold-out performances. An accurate dance work that takes us from selfless offline harmony to self-conscious online egotism and back again. Perhaps it will inspire us to break down our false facades and choose life over lajks.

Multi-award-winning star choreographer Alexander Ekman is bold, unpredictable and innovative - just like the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company. His visually powerful works put their finger on contemporary self-perception, preferably with a sense of humour. He makes us laugh at ourselves, but perhaps even more at others. Ekman has created some 50 works, which have been danced by almost as many companies around the world. Hammer is his third work for the Gothenburg Opera Dance Company.

Gothenburg Opera Dance Company / Alexander Ekman [SWE] | Hammer
Alexander Ekman

About Alexander Ekman

Alexander Ekman, born in Stockholm, is an international choreographer and director who creates works for theatres, opera houses and museums. Ekman has created and collaborated with more than 50 dance companies worldwide, including the Royal Swedish Opera, Cullbergbaletten, Compañia Nacional de Danza, Iceland Dance Company, Bern Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance, Ballet de l'Opéra du Rhin, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Bostonbalett, Royal Ballet of Flanders, Sydney Dance Company, L'Opéra Garnier, The Royal Swedish Ballet and the Vienna Ballet. He has also created works for festivals such as Europa Danse in France and the Athens International Dance Festival.

For NDT2 he made Flockwork in 2006, a year later Lab 15 (NDT1) and in 2010 Cacti (NDT2). Cacti was nominated for the Swan dance award for Best Dance Production in 2010. In 2009 he made the dance film 40 m under for and with the Cullberg Ballet. The film was shown on SVT. Alexander Ekman has also made installations for Moderna Museet in Stockholm and composed the music for many of his works.

In 2010 Ekman created La la land for the Gothenburg Opera Ballet (together with choreographer Medhi Walerski), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and the Cullberg Ballet.

In 2011 Ekman worked as a teacher/choreographer at the Julliard School in New York. Between 2011 and 2013, Ekman was a resident choreographer at NDT.

In 2012 he collaborated with Alicia Keys in the work Tuplet. In 2014, Ekman created his own version of A Swan Lake for the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet and in 2015 he created his own version of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the Royal Swedish Opera. In 2017 he created the work Play for L'Opéra Garnier and two years later Escapist for the Royal Swedish Opera. His latest works are Lib for Staatsoper Berlin and Kuckel for Orionteatern in Stockholm.

Ekman has won several prizes and awards: the Birgit Cullberg Scholarship (2015), the Svenska Dagbladet Opera Prize 2019, the German theatre prize Der Faust (2016) and the Medea Prize 2015. In 2021, he received the Litteris et Artibus medal for outstanding artistic achievements as a choreographer. In 2022, he was awarded the Carina Ari Medal - one of dance's highest honours.

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