STAFFAN EEK

Education:

University College of Dance, basic training 1986-89

University College of Dance, dept of choreoraphy 1992-95

Staffan Eek has been working as a top-level freelance dancer since 1989. 

From 1999 and on, he has collaberated with the norwegian group Zero Visibility,

created by wellknown and established choreographer Ina Christel Johannesen,

as well as Christine de Smedt, one of four choreographers in one of Belgiums

most innovative and internationally renown companies Les Ballets C. de la B.

During his career as a dancer and choreographer, he has been working at the

Royal Swedish Opera for a total of 2,5 years, just recently as a choreographer in the opera

”l ´Enfant et les Sortilèges” by composer Maurice Ravel. 

 

At the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm, he had a major part (the Drum major)

as an actor in the play “Woyzeck” last season. In the same house he has been working as a dancer,

actor and choreographer among Ingmar Bergman is the most wellknown director. For Ingmar Bergman

he´s also been working on National Television (SvT).

 

In Staffans debut as a choreographer, he made it to the finals in the Nordic Choreography Competition in Copenhagen 1992.

Since the start he has produced about 2 performances a year. Last fall at the Maison de la Dance in Stockholm

with the show ”Switch”. Just recently the solopiece ”Same but different” saw very good reviews at the off-off stage Fylkingen in Stockholm.

 

As a dancer and choreographer Staffan has toured extensively in Sweden, Europe and USA.

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