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Interview with Meredith Monk
- Title
- Interview with Meredith Monk [sound recording].
- Author
- Monk, Meredith
- Publication
- 2003.
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Not available - Please for assistance. | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZMT 3-2383 transcript | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | |
Not available - Please for assistance. | cassette 1 | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 1 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | cassette 2 | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 2 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Not available - Please for assistance. | cassette 3 | Audio | Permit needed | *MGZTC 3-2383 cassette 3 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- 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.
- Connect to:
- 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]