MONK BRINGS MAGIC FREQUENCIES TO NEW YORK.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of CITY--Singer-composer-choreographer Meredith Monk has taken a shine to astronomy. Her latest work, Magic Frequencies, which has its New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. premiere at the Joyce Theater The Joyce Theater is a 472-seat dance performance venue located in the Chelsea area of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The Joyce Theater Foundation, the organization founded in 1982 that operates the theater, also owns the Joyce SoHo dance center located in a , November 2 to 7, is an evening-length, futuristic orbit around life before and after the millennium. "I started getting into astronomy and sound telescopes," she says. "There are actually stars making sound, but we can't perceive it; there's all this activity going on, and we don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. about it." As is typical of Monk's creative style, music and singing are the driving forces. The one-hour, twenty-minute piece features five singers who perform vocal dialogues in what Monk calls a "chamber opera." Magic Frequencies includes what she refers to as "earth scenes," four tableaux that depict everyday life on earth. These consist of a man and woman in a musical dialogue at a kitchen table, a television commentator giving a monologue, a man who is dying and sees people from his life, and a duet in a shopping mall. Two musicians perform the score on keyboard and percussion. "It's less like Star Wars and more like Twilight Zone twilight zone - [IRC] Notionally, the area of cyberspace where IRC operators live. An op is said to have a "connection to the twilight zone". ," Monk says. "It's very human and poignant." Audiences can also expect an over-the-top stage design with elaborate lighting and costumes. In one section three extraterrestrial images--with eyes that look into the world of the performers--flash across a transparent screen upstage. The concept of aliens peering into our world is woven throughout Magic Frequencies, and serves to raise questions about identity. Monk works with both miniatures and gigantic figures to challenge perceptions of everyday people or events. Costumes reflect this sense of re-imagined human figures, and the role-playing throughout demands many costume changes. Monk is a pioneer in extended vocal technique Vocal Technique is the practice of using the voice in a particular way when singing or speaking. Vocal Technique is a rehearsed way of adjusting the voice both musically and non-musically; to create different sounds or voice qualities. and interdisciplinary performance. She has made more than 100 works since graduating from Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College, at Bronxville, N.Y.; primarily for women; chartered 1926, opened 1928 as Sarah Lawrence College for Women; renamed 1947. It is noted for its creative arts program. in 1964, and more than a dozen music recordings. Magic Frequencies premiered in Munich in October of 1998. |
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