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THAT HER GROUP can't mime on stage, Monk implies with words. Cataloguing possibilities the ensemble chose not to act out, Pekalis near the end of Part I narrates in a clear voice...
...Monk too recites an epic catalog. Earlier, before she's spirited away under the blue veil of "Familiar," "Death's" companion, Monk chortles like a witch...
...words point away from the multiple characters and episodic structure of part I to Monk's tightly-compressed solo in part II, away from the discovery of a collective past to the memory of an individual past. Monk roots part I in gesture, part II in song...
...Monk begins her solo huddled on a stool--an old, old woman in white leggings and frock. Traveling down a long white cloth, she journeys backwards in time. Her gestures compact layer upon layer of implied meaning. Wide-armed swaying conjures up the image of a little girl dancing to the hypnotic rhythms of her favorite ditty, but suggests too an ancient woman casting nets, sowing grain, soothing a child...
...Monk solos to her own compositions for voice and organ (the latter resonate through part I as well). Monk says she discovered in 1966 that "voice has a spine," that she could use her fully mature voice the way she was trained to use her dancer's body. Ever since, she's worked on finding the connection between dance of the voice and of the body...