“Mikael Karlsson, who has created the music for almost all of Ekman’s choreographies, has once again built great swathes of sound, close to the domain of film music – large-scale, that too.” … “With Vanmakt at Artipelag, Ekman takes a significant step forward by creating a spatially choreographed visual artwork in which the spectators are involved in the action.” Danstidningen
“Vanmakt shows that accessible does not have to mean lightweight.” Dagens Nyheter 
“Vanmakt is one of the year’s indisputably strongest works of performance art.” … “It is a work that scrutinises the audience: who do I become in a world where evil lays claim to power?” … “With the Holocaust as its sounding-board and in interaction with the space, the question becomes physically tangible.”  Vi