Alexander Ekman

Alexander Ekman is a Swedish contemporary dancer and choreographer. After seven years training at the Royal Swedish Ballet School, he danced with the Royal Swedish Opera, the Nederlands Dans Theater, and the Culberg Ballet in Stockholm. He turned to choreography in the 2000s, achieving worldwide renown for A Swan Lake in 2014 — his own version of Swan Lake set to a score by compatriot Mikael Karlsson, for which he created a lake on the stage of the Oslo Opera House! He continued collaborating with Karlsson on the ballets Midsummer Night's Dream (2016), Play (2017), and Eskapist (2017), which you can watch here on medici.tv.

Over the course of his career, Ekman has worked with more than 45 companies, including the Paris Opera, the Royal Swedish Ballet, the Sydney Dance Company, the Vienna State Ballet, and the Norwegian National Ballet, as well as many theatres and museums. In 2024, he was chosen to choreograph the opening ceremony of the Summer Paralympic Games in Paris.