For 40 years Meredith Monk’s perception-shifting works of theater, shining compositions, films, and extraordinary singing have redefined the notion of the multidisciplinary artist. Her long relationship with the Walker is celebrated for this historic opening in a performance featuring selections from Facing North. Monk will be joined by longtime collaborator Theo Bleckmann.
Repeat Cycles: Meredith Monk on Voice, #MeToo, and Recurring History
Born in the late years of the Second World War, Meredith Monk has seen it all—14 presidents; six major US wars; the birth of the modern Civil Rights, anti-war, and environmental movements; 9/11; Black Lives Matter; #MeToo; Donald Trump. Through it all, the multifaceted artist says she has been responding through her art to events in the world—but rarely through words. Here, as she returns to Minneapolis to perform in Cellular Songs, she discusses how she has engaged with a tumultuous world through her art.
Getting Down to the Bones: Meredith Monk and Deborah Jowitt in Conversation
What thread runs through Meredith Monk's works in film, music-theater, and dance over the past half century? "A sense of multidimensionality," she tells Deborah Jowitt. "And an attempt to get down to the bones of the form."
