PERFORMANCE AND THE SPIRITUAL LIFE Meredith Monk in conversation with Bonnie Marranca For more than four decades Meredith Meredith’s work as composer, performer, Direktor, choreographer, and filmmaker has been influential in creating the new vocabularies…
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