Meredith Monk

Known for ActingBorn 1942-11-20 (age 83)Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) is an American composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer. From the 1960s onwards, Monk has created multi-disciplinary works which combine music, theatre, and dance, recording extensively for ECM Records.[1] In 1991, Monk composed Atlas, an opera, commissioned and produced by the Houston Opera and the American Music Theater Festival. Her music has been used in films by the Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski, 1998) and Jean-Luc Godard (Nouvelle Vague, 1990 and Notre musique, 2004). Trip hop musician DJ Shadow sampled Monk's "Dolmen Music" on the song "Midnight in a Perfect World". In 2015, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.Read more

Movies & web series

Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance

16 Millimeter Earrings

Monk in Pieces

Book of Days

Feminists: What Were They Thinking?

Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds

Notre Musique

Institutional Quality

Uncle Meat

Ellis Island

Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ)

A Horse Is Not a Metaphor

Evolver

Offering Shrine

Rotation

Songs of Ascension

Hand Mandala

Hand Reflection

Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980

Meredith Monk: Inner Voice

Trees' Migration

Meredith

Meredith Monk

Faces

The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

Pearls

Turtle Dreams

Four American Composers: Meredith Monk

Turtle Dreams

Paris

Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers

Ellis Island

Quarry

Quarry

A portrait of Meredith Monk

Ball Bearing

Children

16 Millimeter Earrings