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<\/figure>\n\n\n\n(top left, right and middle) V. Sladon (bottom left and right) Peter Moore<\/p>\n\n\n
Juice: A Theatre Cantata in Three Installments (1969)<\/strong><\/h2>\nPioneer of site-specific works, Meredith Monk began working in unconventional spaces in the summer of 1967 with her work, <\/span>Blueprint<\/span><\/i>, which she extended into a three-part durational piece performed in New York in December 1967. After forming her interdisciplinary company, The House, in 1968, Monk began to expand this concept to include large groups of local performers in works performed in various architectural spaces such as the Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, and a factory in Buffalo, NY. Taking place the following year, <\/span>Juice: a theatre cantata in three installments<\/span><\/i> became one of her most important site-specific works. \u201cA dialogue about how space affects images and time,\u201d <\/span>Juice <\/span><\/i>was performed in three installments, each at a different venue over the course of a month. In each installment, Monk reconfigured the relationship of the audience to the performers. The metaphor Monk often uses in describing the experience is that of a zoom lens, as the viewer’s perception shifted from the monumental to the intimate.<\/span><\/p>\nThe first installment<\/b> of <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> took place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on November 7<\/span>th<\/span>, 1969 and was the first time a work of live art occupied the museum\u2019s rotunda since its opening ten years earlier. Elements of the piece included a woman on horseback; 75 singer-dancers in white, wearing red combat boots, performing vignettes and singing plangent choral music on the museum\u2019s spiraling ramps (where an exhibition on Roy Lichtenstein was installed); and a group of four principal performers dressed in red, their red-painted bodies linked together, moving through the space as one figure. <\/span><\/p>\nA month later, <\/span>from November 29<\/span>th<\/span> to December 1<\/span>st<\/span>,<\/span> the second installment<\/b> was presented at Barnard College’s Minor Latham Playhouse. Elements from the first part of the piece were revisited, though in smaller scale: a toy rocking horse was substituted for the real horse; a Lichtenstein poster hanging inside a log cabin stood in for the museum exhibition; and the four characters that had been connected in Part I became separate figures. <\/span><\/p>\nThe third installment<\/b> of <\/span>Juice <\/span><\/i>took place a week later on December 7<\/span>th<\/span> at Monk’s loft in lower Manhattan. Here, audience members walked through an array of objects and costumes used in the previous two parts. The four characters that had been the focus of Parts I and II were now only visible on videotape. <\/span><\/p>\nMusic, movement, direction: <\/span>Meredith Monk
<\/b>Performed by <\/span>The House<\/b>: Dick Higgins, Susan Larrison, Madelyn Lloyd, Meredith Monk, Monica Moseley, David Schiller, Daniel Sverdlik, and additional cast of 75
<\/span>Instrumentalists: <\/span>Don Preston <\/b>and <\/span>Daniel Zellman
<\/b>Lighting: <\/span>Beverly Emmons
<\/b>Sound Engineer: <\/span>Daniel Zellman
<\/b>Videos for Part III: <\/span>David Schiller<\/b><\/p>\n
\n\u201cEven after forty-five years, <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> feels remarkable not just for its ethereal beauty but for how profoundly it reconfigured the audience-performer relationship within a specific architectural setting. Along with her unique extended vocal technique, these elements became integral to Monk\u2019s groundbreaking practice that blends music, dance, film, and theater.\u201d
<\/span>-Nat Trotman, <\/span>Guggenheim.org<\/span><\/i>, 2014 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\u201cMiss Monk, who has often isolated the commonplace in movement, now stands revealed with some help from Frank Lloyd Wright, as a master of the spectacular. Her exploration of the Guggenheim\u2019s architectural possibilities for a performing group of 85 was nothing short of brilliant.\u201d
<\/span>-Anna Kisselgoff, <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i>, November 1969<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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AUDIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/strong>\u201cPorch\u201d and \u201cChange\u201d from <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> can be heard on Meredith Monk\u2019s first recording, the Lovely Music release, <\/span>KEY <\/span><\/i>(1971). \u201cPorch\u201d can also be heard on the Tzadik release, <\/span>Beginnings <\/span><\/i>(2009), a collection of hand-selected archival recordings by Meredith Monk. <\/span><\/p>\nTO PURCHASE<\/span><\/a><\/span>
MORE INFO<\/span><\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Key
<\/span><\/i>MORE INFO<\/span><\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Beginnings<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i>SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:<\/strong><\/p>\n“Guggenheim Offers a Setting For ‘Juice’, Dance by Miss Monk” by Anna Kisselgoff; <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/span>; November 8, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n“‘Juice’ is Meredith Monk at Her Avant-Garde Best” by Robb Baker; Chicago Tribune; December 3, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n“Dance- Echoes and Reverberations” by Deborah Jowitt; The Village Voice; December 11, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n“Meredith Monk at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City” by Jennifer Danziger; Dance News; December 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n“Meredith Monk: An Introduction [by Angela Westwater] and A Metaphoric Theater” by Mark Berger; Artforum; May 1973; pp. 57-63.<\/span><\/p>\nMeredith Monk (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)<\/span><\/a><\/span>; ed. Deborah Jowitt; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997.<\/span><\/p>\nKaye, Nick. \u201cSpace as Map and Memory: Meredith Monk\u201d and \u201cMeredith Monk, <\/span>Site-Specific Works<\/span><\/i>\u201d. <\/span>Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Routledge, New York, NY. 2000.<\/span><\/p>\nKloetzel, Melanie and Carolyn Pavlik. \u201cMeredith Monk, Interview & Meredith Monk as Site Pioneer, 1969-1971\u201d. <\/span>Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Space<\/span><\/a><\/span>. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2009.<\/span><\/p>\nMarranca, Bonnie. <\/span>Conversations with Meredith Monk<\/span><\/a><\/span>. PAJ Publications. New York, NY. 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n\u201cThe Idea of Compression: Meredith Monk\u2019s Juice (1969)\u201d<\/span> by Nat Trotman; <\/span>Guggenheim.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>; October 8, 2014.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":519,"menu_order":29,"template":"","acf":{"is_current_repertory_work":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/work"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The first installment<\/b> of <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> took place at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York on November 7<\/span>th<\/span>, 1969 and was the first time a work of live art occupied the museum\u2019s rotunda since its opening ten years earlier. Elements of the piece included a woman on horseback; 75 singer-dancers in white, wearing red combat boots, performing vignettes and singing plangent choral music on the museum\u2019s spiraling ramps (where an exhibition on Roy Lichtenstein was installed); and a group of four principal performers dressed in red, their red-painted bodies linked together, moving through the space as one figure. <\/span><\/p>\n A month later, <\/span>from November 29<\/span>th<\/span> to December 1<\/span>st<\/span>,<\/span> the second installment<\/b> was presented at Barnard College’s Minor Latham Playhouse. Elements from the first part of the piece were revisited, though in smaller scale: a toy rocking horse was substituted for the real horse; a Lichtenstein poster hanging inside a log cabin stood in for the museum exhibition; and the four characters that had been connected in Part I became separate figures. <\/span><\/p>\n The third installment<\/b> of <\/span>Juice <\/span><\/i>took place a week later on December 7<\/span>th<\/span> at Monk’s loft in lower Manhattan. Here, audience members walked through an array of objects and costumes used in the previous two parts. The four characters that had been the focus of Parts I and II were now only visible on videotape. <\/span><\/p>\n Music, movement, direction: <\/span>Meredith Monk \u201cEven after forty-five years, <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> feels remarkable not just for its ethereal beauty but for how profoundly it reconfigured the audience-performer relationship within a specific architectural setting. Along with her unique extended vocal technique, these elements became integral to Monk\u2019s groundbreaking practice that blends music, dance, film, and theater.\u201d \u201cMiss Monk, who has often isolated the commonplace in movement, now stands revealed with some help from Frank Lloyd Wright, as a master of the spectacular. Her exploration of the Guggenheim\u2019s architectural possibilities for a performing group of 85 was nothing short of brilliant.\u201d <\/strong>\u201cPorch\u201d and \u201cChange\u201d from <\/span>Juice<\/span><\/i> can be heard on Meredith Monk\u2019s first recording, the Lovely Music release, <\/span>KEY <\/span><\/i>(1971). \u201cPorch\u201d can also be heard on the Tzadik release, <\/span>Beginnings <\/span><\/i>(2009), a collection of hand-selected archival recordings by Meredith Monk. <\/span><\/p>\n TO PURCHASE<\/span><\/a><\/span> <\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i><\/i>SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY:<\/strong><\/p>\n “Guggenheim Offers a Setting For ‘Juice’, Dance by Miss Monk” by Anna Kisselgoff; <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/a><\/span>; November 8, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n “‘Juice’ is Meredith Monk at Her Avant-Garde Best” by Robb Baker; Chicago Tribune; December 3, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n “Dance- Echoes and Reverberations” by Deborah Jowitt; The Village Voice; December 11, 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n “Meredith Monk at the Guggenheim Museum, New York City” by Jennifer Danziger; Dance News; December 1969.<\/span><\/p>\n “Meredith Monk: An Introduction [by Angela Westwater] and A Metaphoric Theater” by Mark Berger; Artforum; May 1973; pp. 57-63.<\/span><\/p>\n Meredith Monk (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)<\/span><\/a><\/span>; ed. Deborah Jowitt; Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1997.<\/span><\/p>\n Kaye, Nick. \u201cSpace as Map and Memory: Meredith Monk\u201d and \u201cMeredith Monk, <\/span>Site-Specific Works<\/span><\/i>\u201d. <\/span>Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation<\/span><\/a><\/span>. Routledge, New York, NY. 2000.<\/span><\/p>\n Kloetzel, Melanie and Carolyn Pavlik. \u201cMeredith Monk, Interview & Meredith Monk as Site Pioneer, 1969-1971\u201d. <\/span>Site Dance: Choreographers and the Lure of Alternative Space<\/span><\/a><\/span>. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, FL. 2009.<\/span><\/p>\n Marranca, Bonnie. <\/span>Conversations with Meredith Monk<\/span><\/a><\/span>. PAJ Publications. New York, NY. 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe Idea of Compression: Meredith Monk\u2019s Juice (1969)\u201d<\/span> by Nat Trotman; <\/span>Guggenheim.org<\/span><\/a><\/span>; October 8, 2014.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":519,"menu_order":29,"template":"","acf":{"is_current_repertory_work":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work\/502"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/work"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/work"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress-dot-meredith-monk-website.appspot.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
<\/b>Performed by <\/span>The House<\/b>: Dick Higgins, Susan Larrison, Madelyn Lloyd, Meredith Monk, Monica Moseley, David Schiller, Daniel Sverdlik, and additional cast of 75
<\/span>Instrumentalists: <\/span>Don Preston <\/b>and <\/span>Daniel Zellman
<\/b>Lighting: <\/span>Beverly Emmons
<\/b>Sound Engineer: <\/span>Daniel Zellman
<\/b>Videos for Part III: <\/span>David Schiller<\/b><\/p>\n
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<\/span>-Nat Trotman, <\/span>Guggenheim.org<\/span><\/i>, 2014 <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
<\/span>-Anna Kisselgoff, <\/span>The New York Times<\/span><\/i>, November 1969<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n
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AUDIO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong>
MORE INFO<\/span><\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Key
<\/span><\/i>MORE INFO<\/span><\/span><\/a> on <\/span>Beginnings<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/i>