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Meredith Monk
Birth at
20 November 1942
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Meredith Jane Monk (November 20, 1942) is an American composer, singer, choreographer, theater and film director.
In 1964 she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, in 1968 she founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Performing Arts “The House”, attracted Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, etc. She worked at the Judson Dance Theater. Experiments with techniques of sound expansion, combining various arts in the performing act. He often works with the Kronos Quartet.
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Meredith Jane Monk (November 20, 1942) is an American composer, singer, choreographer, theater and film director.
In 1964 she graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, in 1968 she founded the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Performing Arts “The House”, attracted Bruce Nauman, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, etc. She worked at the Judson Dance Theater. Experiments with techniques of sound expansion, combining various arts in the performing act. He often works with the Kronos Quartet.
She made experimental "hearing films" (Ellis Island (1981) and "Book of Days" (1988) according to her own scripts).