\u201dHammer\u201d is 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.<\/p>\n
Multi-award-winning star choreographer Alexander Ekman is bold, unpredictable and innovative. His visually powerful works put his 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 for dance companies around the world - from Sydney to Oslo. 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Ekman har skapat och samarbetat med ett 50-tal danskompanier v\u00e4rlden \u00f6ver s\u00e5som Kungliga Operan, Cullbergbaletten, Compa\u00f1ia Nacional de Danza, Iceland Dance Company, Bern Ballet, Cedar Lake Contemporary Dance, Ballet de l'Op\u00e9ra du Rhin, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Bostonbalett, Flanderns Kungliga Balett, Sydney Dance Company, L'Op\u00e9ra Garnier, Den Kongelige Ballet och Wienbaletten. Han har ocks\u00e5 skapat verk till festivaler som Europa Danse i Frankrike och internationella dansfestivalen i Aten. \r\n \r\nF\u00f6r NDT2 gjorde han Flockwork 2006, ett \u00e5r senare Lab 15 (NDT1) och 2010 Cacti (NDT2). Cacti nominerades till danspriset Swan f\u00f6r B\u00e4sta dansproduktion 2010. 2009 gjorde han dansfilmen 40 m under f\u00f6r och med Cullbergbaletten. Filmen visades p\u00e5 SVT. Alexander Ekman har ocks\u00e5 gjort installationer f\u00f6r Moderna Museet i Stockholm och komponerat musiken till m\u00e5nga av sina verk. \r\n \r\n2010 skapade Ekman La la land f\u00f6r G\u00f6teborgsOperans Balett (tillsammans med koreografen Medhi Walerski), Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet och Cullbergbaletten. \r\n \r\nUnder 2011 arbetade Ekman som l\u00e4rare\/koreograf vid Julliard School i New York. Mellan 2011 och 2013 var Ekman huskoreograf p\u00e5 NDT. \r\n \r\n2012 samarbetade han med Alicia Keys i verket Tuplet. 2014 skapade Ekman sin egen version av Svansj\u00f6n, A Swan Lake, f\u00f6r Den Norske Opera & Ballett och 2015 gjorde han en egen version av En midsommarnattsdr\u00f6m p\u00e5 Kungliga Operan. 2017 skapade han verket Play f\u00f6r L'Op\u00e9ra Garnier och tv\u00e5 \u00e5r senare Eskapist f\u00f6r Kungliga Operan. Senaste verken \u00e4r Lib f\u00f6r Staatsoper Berlin och Kuckel f\u00f6r Orionteatern i Stockholm. \r\n \r\nEkman har vunnit flera priser och utm\u00e4rkelser: Birgit Cullberg-stipendiet (2015) Svenska Dagbladets operapris 2019, det tyska teaterpriset Der Faust (2016) och Medeapriset 2015. 2021 mottog han medaljen Litteris et Artibus f\u00f6r framst\u00e5ende konstn\u00e4rliga insatser som koreograf. 2022 erh\u00f6ll han Carina Ari-medaljen - en av dansens f\u00f6rn\u00e4msta utm\u00e4rkelser."}}],"grid_description":"","mobile_featured_image":false,"show_group":[{"show_datetime":"2026-04-24 19:00"},{"show_datetime":"2026-04-25 19:00"},{"show_datetime":"2026-04-26 15:00"}],"featured_image_position":"","event_address":"","event_google_maps_url":"","background_topbanner":"#0066bf","color_topbanner":"light","overlay_topbanner":"none","gradient_topbanner":"0","reviews":[{"review_source":"Aftonbladet","review_quote":"Danskonst p\u00e5 h\u00f6gsta niv\u00e5","review_url":"https:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/kultur\/teater\/a\/gEEeP0\/recension-av-alexander-ekmans-hammer-pa-goteborgsoperan"}],"offstage_image":false,"offstage_group":[],"credits":[{"credits_role":"Koreografi, regi, scenografi och ljusdesign ","credits_name":"Alexander Ekman"},{"credits_role":"Musik","credits_name":"Mikael Karlsson"},{"credits_role":"Dramaturgi ","credits_name":"Carina Nildalen"},{"credits_role":"Kostymdesign ","credits_name":"Henrik Vibskov"},{"credits_role":"Ljusdesign","credits_name":"Joakim Brink"},{"credits_role":"Assistent till Alexander Ekman ","credits_name":"Victor G. 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