{"id":3169,"date":"2026-01-09T00:47:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T08:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169"},"modified":"2026-02-10T13:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T21:32:08","slug":"meredith-monk-performance-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Monk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Meredith Monk: A Documentary, by Sidsel Mundal (1994)\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qbswVGaqFDo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>Meredith Jane Monk<\/b> (born November 20, 1942) was an American avant-garde composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer.\u00a0 She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>I am celebrating women with the strength to follow their conscience, their passions, their dreams despite the risks associated with doing so.\u00a0 Without them the world would not be as rich and beautiful as it is.\u00a0 [Click on Full Screen icon in the lower right corner to best appreciate the video]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Jane Monk (born November 20, 1942) was an American avant-garde composer, performer, director, vocalist, filmmaker, and choreographer.\u00a0 She was awarded the National Medal of Arts by Barack Obama. I am celebrating women with the strength to follow their conscience, their passions, their dreams despite the risks associated with doing so.\u00a0 Without them the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/?p=3169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Meredith Monk<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[458],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-documentary","post_format-post-format-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3169"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3169\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maxvollmer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}