Mats Ek choreographs Górecki's recent works
(June 2001)
Over the past decade Mats Ek has become associated with the music of Henryk Mikolaj Górecki, and his most recent creation with the composer's music, A Sort Of, is toured by the Cullberg Ballet to the BITE series at the Barbican in London on 13/14 June.The work for 16 dancers was created for the Netherlands Dance Theatre in 1997 and employs Górecki's Kleines Requiem für eine Polka and Harpsichord Concerto. This succeeds an opposing earlier pair of Ek/Górecki ballets, one set in an imaginary Nordic landscape and the other metropolitan and aggressive: Pointless Pastures (Meinungslose Weiden) was choreographed to Already it is Dusk (String Quartet No.1) for Hamburg Ballet in 1992 and is also featured on the Barbican programme, while She Was Black was created for the Cullberg Ballet in 1995 and is danced to Quasi Una Fantasia (String Quartet No.2).
Recordings of Górecki's music can be found on the Nonesuch label.
> Further information on Work: Kleines Requiem fur eine Polka
Photo: Cullberg Ballet in Mats Ek's A Sort Of (Cullberg Ballet/Lesley Leslie-Spinks)
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