Embodying a broad spectrum of emotions, the phenomenal Meredith Monk and her dynamic Vocal Ensemble take the audience on a poetic journey to a place where music, dance and video portraits reflect the delicacy and power of the human spirit. Each section of the work provides a non-narrative look at the different facets of impermanence and the joy and wonder of being. Accompanied by voice, piano, clarinet, breath, bicycle tire and other inventive instrumentation, the many scenes -- a montage of video portraits of extreme close-ups of diverse faces; a playful dance of energy unbound; voices rising from the dark singing a song of beginning and opening; an elegant dance of small gestures, performers balancing on chairs seemingly floating in space -- create a collage of emotion, image, and sound that gently transports us through a haunting, mysterious, and essentially human experience. Presenters have included The Yerba Buena Center, Stimmen Festival, and Brooklyn Academy of Music.

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