Search - Mats Ek - Appartement / Osta, Le Riche, Gillot, Martinez, Belarbi, Paris Opera Ballet on DVD

Best Dance Video of the year

Tour Jete | Marblehead, MA USA | 08/03/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Mats Ek may well be the best choreographer of this generation. His work is innovative and cutting edge and at the same time, full of humanity and humor. He is a master of the use of stage space and his dancers are superb."

My new favorite thing

L. Lim | 09/30/2007

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This dvd is my new favorite thing! I've watched and enjoyed Mats Ek's work before, though I sometimes find it a little out there for me, but this one is beautiful! No qualifying remarks, no astriks, just absolutely beautiful. I teach dance and choreography and showed excerpts from this in my class. The students were inspired and many asked where they could get the dvd after class. For me, this one has everthing I love about dance-- human, amazing, unusual movement, beautiful stage design, and beautiful dancers. When you need to defend ballet technique and explain that it isn't all about Sleeping Beauty, this is a good one to watch."

Crazy World

David Thierry | Chicago, IL United States | 04/03/2008

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This virtuoso piece is what we like to call avante garde. Most of us have never seen choreography like this, it's extremely demanding of the dancers abilities, non romantic in the extreme yet offers many dazzling male female duets. It's tempting to compare this work with Twyla Tharp's The Catherine Wheel. I think this piece is a little more coherent and none of the dancers are wasted. The vacuum cleaner dance is both funny, angry and celebratory. We have an amazing group of dancers here and they definitely earn the wild applause at the end. The original music is great too."