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Meredith Monk: Art as Spiritual Practice

The beauty of a live performing situation is the possibility of complete disaster at every moment. When you’re making a film or a recording, at a certain point you can cut out everything you don’t like. It becomes a fixed form. But in live performance everything is real, present tense, you’re seeing people on a kind of tightrope, you’re experiencing that. Vulnerability is such a beautiful aspect of a live performance. The performers exist and everyone in the audience exists ; we’re all in the same space at the same time. We’re sharing that time and space together. The experience ultimately becomes like a figure 8, an infinity sign, that just goes back and forth, back and forth, comes around, and comes back around again.

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