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Meredith Monk A VOICE IN MOTION.
From:
Dance Magazine
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July 1, 2001| Author:
SOLOMONS, GUS JR
| COPYRIGHT 2001 Dance Magazine, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information
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I NEVER THINK I AM A NOUN; I always feel like I'm a verb," says Meredith Monk, cryptically, when I ask if she thinks of herself as a dancer who writes music or a composer who used to dance. I finally catch up with her by phone in Budapest as she sweeps through a tour of Russia and Eastern Europe. "I've always fought against being categorized. I think everything feeds everything else." [] Monk's one-of-a-kind multimedia stage works--with Monk, now 58, writing and performing the musi...
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