Celebrating Meredith.

A treasured American original, Meredith Monk has been making haunting haunt·ing
adj.
Continually recurring to the mind; unforgettable: a haunting melody.

haunt dance/theatre and musical works since the 1960s. Kicking off the year-long celebration of her 40th anniversary will be concerts at the Danspace Project Danspace Project was founded in 1974 to provide a performance venue for experimental dance. Its performances are held in St. Mark's Church in the East Village area of the Manhattan borough of New York City. at St. Marks Church November 19-21. Choreographers This is a list of choreographers A

Paula Abdul
Alvin Ailey
Richard Alston
Robert Alton
Gerald Arpino
Frederick Ashton
Fred Astaire
Lea Anderson

Jean Babilée
George Balanchine

including Ann Carlson, Sean Curran, Eiko and Korea, Bill T. Jones, and Dana Reitz will perform to Monk's music. For Monk, there is no separation between music and movement. "Music is an underlying river to allow other work to form. I'm not just carrying the backpack of my past; I'm doing work that's an antidote antidote

Remedy to counteract the effects of a poison or toxin. Administered by mouth, intravenously, or sometimes on the skin, it may work by directly neutralizing the poison; causing an opposite effect in the body; binding to the poison to prevent its absorption, to the fragmentation we live with." See www.danspaceproject.org.

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Title Annotation:	New York Notebook
Author:	Smith, Amanda
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Date:	Nov 1, 2004
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