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Meredith Monk&#;s Cellular Songs at the BAM Harvey Theater, March 14 through

When I began to search the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s website for images of Meredith Monk’s Cellular Songs, I went astray.

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I couldn’t categorize the work the way the site expected me to. If I clicked on “theater,” I couldn’t also click on “music.” When, with help, I found the photographs I sought, “theater,” “music,” and “dance” were all highlighted.

It figures. If you look through the list of works that Monk has made since , you’ll find, say, her Juice billed as a “Theater Cantata,” her Quarry characterized as “An opera.” the The Politics of Quiet as “A Music Theater Oratorio,” and most of her later works as “musical compositions.” But overlapping and weaving and bumping together and fading in and out of her compositions, these categories founder as absolutes.

“I work in between the cracks,” this ext