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Interview with Meredith Monk

Title
Interview with Meredith Monk [sound recording].
Author
Monk, Meredith
Publication
2003.

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AudioPermit needed *MGZMT 3-2383 transcriptPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance
cassette 1AudioPermit needed *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 1Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
cassette 2AudioPermit needed *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 2Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
cassette 3AudioPermit needed *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 3Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
Gere, David.
Description
3 sound cassettes (ca. 205 min.) +
Summary
  • Cassette 1 (ca. 90 min.). Meredith Monk discusses her family background; childhood; visual limitations; early exposure to art and music; her family's and her own relationship to Judaism; moving from New York City to Connecticut; formative musical training and interests; early classes in movement and dance; influential teachers in high school at the George School, particularly her music teacher Richard Avare; her experience with anorexia and the way her illness seemed a manifestation of her life at that time; attending Sarah Lawrence College and the importance of attending a women's college; teachers she had there including Judith Dunn; describes and analyses her piece 16 millimeter earrings.
  • Cassette 2 (ca. 90 min.). Monk continues to speak about the importance of 16 millimeter earrings in her development; Yvonne Rainer's piece Trio A is discussed as a basis for exploring Monk's relationship to postmodern dance; her piece Break; studying with Bessie Schönberg; her thoughts on the limitations of movement and dance within her work; the difficulty of categorizing what she does; attending Sarah Lawrence College; coming to New York after graduation; people and work she became involved with during her first years in New York including Kenneth King and Beverly Blossom; her relationships and feelings about herself as a woman at this time; some reflections on her mother; other works including Blueprint; exploring site-specific work and the possibilities of a moving audience; her rebelliousness and her financial predicament at this time; her work Tour: dedicated to dinosaurs; her desire and efforts to produce her work Juice, at the Guggenheim Museum; describes Juice and discusses concepts behind it.
  • Cassette 3 (ca. 25 min.) Monk speaks about meeting people who would become part of her early company including Lanny Harrison and Ping Chong; her piece Needle-brain Lloyd and the systems kid; her creative process in this and other works. [Side B is blank.]
Donor/Sponsor
National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.
Series Statement
Meredith Monk Oral History Project.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project.
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview with Meredith Monk conducted by David Gere in Monk's studio in New York City on Nov. 30, 2003.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2383.
Access (note)
  • Permission required.
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-2383
OCLC
NYPY05-R10061
Author
Monk, Meredith, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Meredith Monk [sound recording].
Imprint
2003.
Series
Meredith Monk Oral History Project.
Access
Permission required.
Funding
Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
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Local Subject
Site-specific performance.
Audiotapes -- Monk, M.
Added Author
Gere, David. Interviewer
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-2383 [sound cassette]
*MGZMT 3-2383 [transcript]
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