A Giselle for Our Time: Mats Ek`s Post
... ballet Giselle. Born April 18, 1945, Mats Ek began his theatre studies at a young age, but did not
begin dancing seriously until his late twenties, when he joined the Cullberg Ballet, a company
founded in 1967 by Ek’s mother, Birgit Cullberg, as a member of the corps de ballet. Ek went
on to serve a ...