-- By Tom Phillips
As an artist Meredith Monk has never done just one thing at
a time. In “Dancing Voices,” which helped
launch Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival this weekend, she attempts both a retrospective
of her own career as composer-choreographer, and a transmission of her dharma to
a new generation.
“Dancing Voices” is divided into two parts. Part One is a selection of her early
experiments, from the Sixties to the early Nineties, performed with a chorus of
young kids. Part Two is more recent, reflective works, with older children joining in. The
first part was the most fun, and the most moving.
