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Meredith Monk
"When the time comes to tally up achievements in the performing arts, one name
that seems sure to loom large is that of Meredith Monk. In originality, in scope, in
depth, there are few to rival her" Washington Post
The voice has always been at the center of Meredith Monk's visionary work.
Together with her award-winning Vocal Ensemble, Monk has composed and
performed music for the voice as a multi-faceted instrument, expanding the
boundaries of traditional vocal music. She has alternately been proclaimed as a
"voice of the future" and "one of America's coolest composers."
With other radical artists of the 1960s, Monk pioneered the use of multi-media in
performance. Echoes of her work can be heard across genres, influencing artists
as diverse as Kate Bush, Laurie Anderson and Bjork.
Meredith Monk's work touches on many areas, but at the heart of it is singing,
exploring the human voice in all its possibilities. Inspired by cultures where
performance is considered a spiritual discipline with healing and transformative
power, Monk has sought to re-establish the unity that underlies music, theatre
and dance.
"Intensely-moving, drop-dead gorgeous - an immersion into the process of transcendence."
Los Angeles Times
"Meredith Monk, avant-garde sorceress of offstage theatre."
Village Voice
"Its most striking feature is the unearthly form of primal song that Monk has evolved:
I'd call it an incantation."
New York Magazine