PORTFOLIO
We happily consult on a range of projects, especially if they are unusual, challenging, and require innovation or re-invention or inquiry around issues of equity ~ and offer us the opportunity to collaborate with interesting people who want to do good work. Recently, Elena served as producer for the Jessye Norman Celebration, presented by the Metropolitan Opera and the Ford Foundation, featuring performances, videos, and tributes by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Renée Fleming, Eric Owens, Anna Deveare Smith, and Gloria Steinem, among many others who came together to honor this remarkable artist.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Revelations (Photo: Richard Termine/Met Opera)
Beginning with the Kennedy Center’s JFK Centennial, Elena Park is an Artistic Consultant for the nation’s performing arts center; she collaborated on humanities programming for the opening of the REACH last fall, and serves as lead for the upcoming SHIFT Festival and other Spring events at the Kennedy Center; last season, in partnership with National Geographic, she helped to organized talks around the themes of The Human Journey: migration, identity, resilience, and exploration.
For audio pioneer Meyer Sound, Elena recently served as Strategic Advisor to launch its new artistic partnership with National Sawdust. (Below: San Francisco Symphony’s SoundBox, where Meyer Sound’s Constellation and Sound Map systems are in use. Photo: Cory Weaver)
While working with the NGO Cambodian Living Arts, she helped to conceive Season of Cambodia (SOC), an ambitious, multi-disciplinary festival in Spring 2013 showcasing Cambodian arts and culture in partnership with 34 NYC venues, from artist residencies to performances and exhibitions.
Season of Cambodia garnered major philanthropic and audience support, bringing 125 master and emerging artists from Cambodia. (Above: New School panel with SOC CEO Phloeun Prim, Board Chair John Burt & Elena Park.)
(Above, Phloeun Prim, Angelina Jolie, and Darren Walker at the Asia Society)
More recently, she was project advisor for Bangsokol, the first Requiem to honor the victims and survivors of the Khmer Rouge; the multimedia piece premiered at the Melbourne International Festival in the fall of 2017. Prior to the BAM run, she worked with the Asia Society to produce a panel including filmmaker Rithy Panh and CLA's Phloeun Prim with Angelina Jolie and Loung Ung (director and writer of the film, First They Killed My Father), moderated by Ford Foundation president Darren Walker.
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In February 2016, we served as Consulting HD Producer for Kanye West's Adidas YEEZY show (above) ~ the first time a fashion launch was shared live via satellite with a global audience. The NYC event was broadcast in real time to North America, Europe, Eastern Europe, Russia, and Australia, with Kanye fans across nine time zones joining celebrities such as Beyonce, Jay-Z, Rihanna, and Anna Wintour, who gathered in a raw space at Clarkson Square.
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Though she actively avoids committees, Elena is pleased (proud, even) to serve on the Artistic Advisory Committee of On Site Opera and as the Chair of National Sawdust's Advisory Board. She was part of the Strategy Committee of the PROTOTYPE festival for its first five years.