What is a park? Something between jungle and garden, nature and culture, the wild and the tame. A human? If park could be perceived as an image of the soul, as an inner landscape, then yes a lot can happen there. And not always what you expect.<\/p>\n
Mats Ek on The Park:<\/p>\n
“A park: the lungs of a city, a patch of disciplined nature with straight lines and vegetation trimmed like geometric figures, friendly and lush greenery coupled with messy angles and hidden corners. A park, between jungle and garden, between nature and culture, between the wild and the tamed. Much like a human being. The park could be seen as a picture of the soul, of the innards of a human being.”<\/p>\n
Mats Ek believes that these reflections began on one of the many mornings he passed Humleg\u00e5rden (a large open green area in central Stockholm) on his way to work over a twelve year period. The Park <\/i>is made up of nine episodes, nine different short ballets with varying characters and content, comprising pieces of our lives.<\/p>\n
“In all the scenes there is a charged relationship between destructive forces and life affirming ones, moving forward with different emphasis on one or the other,” says Mats Ek. The Park <\/i>as an entity also changes its meaning,at once a forest but then the trunks of trees can transform into the pillars of a ballroom. One can see The Park<\/i> as a continuation of the work Eldstad<\/i>, where the setting is the only cohesive element, while its significance is ambiguousand multifaceted. Where Eldstad<\/i> was open for a continuation, a work in progress, The Park<\/i>, on the other hand, was from the outset a unified entity.<\/p>\n
Marie-Louise de Geer Bergenstr\u00e5hle created the scenography, the sixth collaboration between herself and Mats Ek.<\/p>\n
The composers whose music is used as many as The Park<\/i>\u2019s episodes: Camille Saint-Saens, Ingvar Lidholm, Mikis Theodorakis, Richard Wagner, Jean Sibelius, Arne Nordheim, Carl Nielsen and George Elkin.<\/p>\n
The environment, the park, is the only unifying element. In it two figures appear consistently: an Edward the Black Prince character, a classic embodiment of a romantic prince seeking his bride to be, and a municipal worker who sets things right and tidies up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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