Artists' Fellowship - 1996
Choreography
Artist Statement:
"For more than thirty years I have worked as choreographer, composer, filmmaker and director, weaving together elements of gesture, music, film, object, light and ambiance into my performances. I hope that this multi-dimensional approach creates a poetry of movement, sound and image that increases the luminosity and radiance of the audience's experience." Monk's recent solo work 'Volcano Songs' (1994) employs the volcano as a metaphor for cycles of creation, destruction and renewal.
More about the Artist:
Meredith Monk is one of the most well-known multimedia auteurs working today. The range and scope of her work as a director, choreographer, song writer, musician, filmmaker, and installation artist is enormous. Monk has received numerous awards including the prestigious MacArthur Award in 1995, two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Brandeis Creative Arts Award, three Obies (including an award for Sustained Achievement), two Villager Awards, BESSIES for Sustained Creative Achievement, the 1986 National Music Theatre Award, the 1992 Dance Magazine Award, and a 2005 ASCAP Concert Music Award.
In 2006 Monk was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and named a United States Artists Fellow. Her recordings Dolmen Music and Our Lady of Late: The Vanguard Tapes were honored with the German Critics Prize for Best Records of 1981 and 1986. Her music has been heard in numerous films, including La Nouvelle Vague by Jean-Luc Godard and The Big Lebowski by Joel and Ethan Coen. Monk’s publishing relationship with Boosey & Hawkes, begun in 2000, has helped make her scores available to a wider public.
In 1968 Ms. Monk founded The House, a company dedicated to an interdisciplinary approach to performance. In 1978 she formed Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble to expand her musical textures and forms. She has made more than a dozen recordings, most of which are on the ECM New Series label. Her music has been performed by numerous soloists and groups including The Chorus of the San Francisco Symphony, Musica Sacra, The Pacific Mozart Ensemble, Double Edge, Björk, and Bang On A Can All-Stars, among others.
Read an interview with Monk in the For Artists section.
To purchase works by or about Meredith Monk click below:
Meredith Monk by Deborah Jowitt
Book of Days
Key
Our Lady of Late
Atlas - An Opera in Three Parts
Mercy
Volcano Songs
Dolmen Music
Do You Be
Turtle Dreams
Facing North
Of Eternal Light
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