Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art … - Meredith Monk

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Soul grows in communion. Word by word, story by story, for better or worse, we build our world. From true conversation - speaking and listening - communication deepens into compassion and creates community.

Meredith Monk

Yes, the more I go through life I realize that there's really no separation between practice and art at all. The two things more and more become one rather than two different aspects of my life.

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That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.

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I work in between the cracks, where the voice starts dancing, where the body starts singing, where theater becomes cinema.

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I think about that "empty" space a lot. That emptiness is what allows for something to actually evolve in a natural way. I've had to learn that over the years - because one of the traps of being an artist is to always want to be creating, always wanting to produce.

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When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

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(There is) art that states the problems of society and wakes people up to make changes in their lives or in their communities,. . . art that offers an alternative, that demonstrates human behavior that can become a model for creativity, cooperation, freedom and playfulness, and. . . art that in itself provides glimpses of a larger consciousness or reflects upon the inexplicable.

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