ABSTRACT
Meredith Monk grew up on the East Coast in a musical family. Her early training in Dalcroze eurhythmics started her on her path of connecting music to movement, which has remained with her. After graduating in 1964 from Sarah Lawrence College, where she created a combined degree program that included music, dance, and theater, she headed to New York City and soon presented her work in galleries, churches, and other spaces, and became a pioneer of site-specific work. The House, the company she formed in 1968, has performed her work in lofts, museums, parking lots, fields, and theaters. In 1978 she created Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble. Monk’s wide-ranging work—intimate solo vocal concerts, films, interdisciplinary theater pieces, and large-scale operas—have been presented worldwide. United States sites include the Houston Grand Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Academy of Music, and the New York Film Festival.
