Meredith Monk
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 20, 1942
- Place of birth
- Queens, New York City, New York, USA
Biography
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.
Movies with Meredith Monk
- Feminists: What Were They Thinking? 2018 · ★ 7.5
- Book of Days 1989 · ★ 8.2
- Uncle Meat 1987 · ★ 6.3
- Institutional Quality 1969 · ★ 7.0
- Fried Shoes Cooked Diamonds 1979 · ★ 7.7
- 16 Millimeter Earrings 1979 · ★ 10.0
- Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance 2001 · ★ 10.0
- Monk in Pieces 2025 · ★ 8.0
- Water Light/Water Needle (Lake Mah Wah, NJ) 1966 · ★ 6.0
- Songs of Ascension 2019
- Quarry 1978
- Meredith Monk: Solo Concert 1980 2013
- Four American Composers: Meredith Monk 1983
- Turtle Dreams 1983
- A portrait of Meredith Monk 1974
- The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros 1993
- Making Dances: Seven Post-Modern Choreographers 1980
- Paris 1982
- Meredith Monk 1994
- Meredith Monk: Inner Voice 2009
- Meredith 1995
Movies directed by Meredith Monk
- Book of Days 1989 · ★ 8.2
- Ellis Island 1981 · ★ 6.0
- Turtle Dreams 1987
- Songs of Ascension 2019
- Ball Bearing 1968
- Quarry 1978
- Paris 1982
- 16 Millimeter Earrings 1966
- Faces 1994
- Children 1967
- Quarry 1975
- Ellis Island 1979
- Hand Mandala 2018
- Hand Reflection 2016
- Offering Shrine 2021
- Rotation 2021