Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Gere, David.

Description

1. 3 sound cassettes (ca. 205 min.) +

Summary

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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

1. National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.

Series statement

1. Meredith Monk Oral History Project.

Alternative title

1. Dance Oral History Project.
2. Dance Audio Archive.

Subject

1. Break (Choreographic work : Monk)
2. Schönberg, Bessie
3. Monk, Meredith
4. Juice (Choreographic work : Monk)
5. Sarah Lawrence College
6. George School (Bucks County, Pa.)
7. Site-specific performance
8. Audiotapes > Monk, M
9. Blueprint (Choreographic work : Monk)
10. 16 millimeter earrings (Choreographic work : Monk)
11. Anorexia nervosa

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2383

Note

1. Interview with Meredith Monk conducted by David Gere in Monk's studio in New York City on Nov. 30, 2003.
2. For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-2383.

Access (note)

1. Permission required.
2. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.

Author

1. Monk, Meredith, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Meredith Monk [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 2003.

Series

1. Meredith Monk Oral History Project.

Access

1. Permission required.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2003-2004.

Restricted access

1. Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Special Collections (Dance Division) material

Local subject

1. Site-specific performance.
2. Audiotapes -- Monk, M.

Added author

1. Gere, David. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-2383 [sound cassette]
2. *MGZMT 3-2383 [transcript]