\u201cIn our time, the family is an institution that often disintegrates or changes form. But in previous generations, especially the bourgeois Victorian period, the family had a strong cohesive force that had a great influence on people’s lives. Some believe it still does today.<\/p>\n
This ballet is a depiction of four people’s family conflicts.The father is an officer concerned with keeping up appearances, as he makes his livelihood through war. He drinks to allay his fears. The mother is brought up in the ideal of purity, in other words that sex is dirty and dangerous. The daughter feels trapped and longs for love. Her boyfriend is the son of a poor. A conflict arises between these four disparate people, who are in actuality complete strangers to one another, despite their strong love. While interest in these types of family conflicts has been heightened by writers like Lars Nor\u00e9n and psychologists like Alice Miller, the plot of this ballet is completely independent and partially based on memories of my mother, who had experiences from the Victorian era. “<\/p>\n
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