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“impermanence is a meditation on death and the passage of time, done with Monk’s inimitable brand of voluptuous spareness. With its fluid blend of choral music, song, film and dance, it marks the latest unclassifiable effort by this visionary creator.”
-- Joshua Kosman
-- San Francisco Chronicle

“…a lovely, rueful full-evening disquisition on death and the dying. That’s not to say that impermanence is either depressing or maudlin. The work…exalts life.”
-- Allan Ulrich
-- Voice of Dance

“Voices and movements approach loss and remembrance profoundly, making poetry of the mundane and seasoning it with wit.”
-- Deborah Jowitt
-- The Village Voice

[see photos and videos of mercy]

"...what this intenselry moving, drop-dead gorgeous can't-be-categorized fluid piece of meditative mucic, movements and mileu presents is an immersion into the process of transcendance."
-- Mark Swed
-- Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section , Feb 16, 2002

"What the piece's creators appeared to be thinking about was the mystery, beauty and sadess of life... Together , they created a multitude of visual and sonic wonders... spellbinding... watching this work was like seeing fleeting thoughts made briefly visible.
-- Jack Anderson,
-- The New York Times

"Each character, each scene each musical selection moves forward with an unrelenting yet natural meter that weaves one segment seamlessly to the next, conctructing a fabric so right in its final wholeness that not a thread is out of place. Each section ebbs and flows as inexorable as the tide, leading to as dramatic and inevitable a conclusion as one would expect at the culmination of one of the monumental Bach fugues for organ."
-- Babara Zuck
-- The Columbus Dispatch, October 31, 2001

"A composer, singer and theater artist for whom experimentation has led to wondrous discovery, Monk conjures up a specturm of colorful and evocative sounds from her one-of-a-kind vocal instrument."

"...a muscian of boundless imagination and vision. Both alone and with her vocal ensemble, she took the audience into enchanting, composttionate and disturbing worlds ...the shadings, effects and expressive elements captured the listener's attention and never let go."
-- Donald Rosenberg
-- The Plain Dealer, October 8, 2001