Evening Standard - London, November 13th, 2000
LEADING European choreographer Mats Ek was nearly lost to dance. He hated it as a child because of his mother, Birgit Cullberg, renowned Swedish dancer, choreographer and founder of Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet. Her art took her away from Ek and his brothers, Niklas and Malin. "We didn't have a mother in a conventional sense," he says. "Dance was the enemy when we were children and on top of that we found it ridiculous."
So he became a child actor and followed in the footsteps of his father, Anders Ek, a favourite actor of Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman. But the parental influence endure...
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