Icelandic pop icon Björk might have agreed to headline Perth Festival only nine months ago, but the Australian exclusive has been 19 years in the making.
production – a mix of live music and theatre – to a purpose-built 5000-seat pavilion in Perth’s Langley Park in March.
“Björk is right at the top of the tree of people I’ve wanted to invite to the festival. She’s one of those rare artists with an uncompromising vision who also has a large, devoted following – and it’s testament to Tom’s trustworthiness and the longevity of his commitment that we’re able to celebrate her here.
Grandage suspects the reverence for nature evident throughout Björk’s discography is another reason she was attracted by Perth.“So much of her art is about biodiversity and celebrating the natural world, and Western Australia is one of the 10 most biodiverse places on the planet,” he says. “There’s this lovely synergy of her coming from one of the youngest pieces of Earth in the world – Iceland is constantly being built by volcanoes and tectonic shifts – to join us here in one of the oldest places in the world, with those 300-million-year-old granite boulders just up the hill there.
“I hope during the two weeks she is here that she gets to understand some of the ancient stories tied to that biodiversity.”| A WA Symphony Orchestra concert that Grandage says will “tell the story of the stars”.
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