Studio Stories: Reminiscing on Twin Cities Dance with Neil Greenberg Season 1 Episode 17

A native of Mendota Heights, MN, Neil Greenberg studied from
the age of 11 with Minnesota Dance Theatre and School, taking
class and performing alongside Toni Pierce(-Sands), Robin Stiehm,
and Lea Thompson (see photo).  He moved to New York City in
1976, and was a member of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from
1979-1986.  As a choreographer he is known especially for
his Not-About-AIDS-Dance, which employs his
signature use of projected words as a layering strategy that
provides doors into “meanings” in the dance, while also raising
questions about the nature of meaning-making. Among his awards
are a Guggenheim Fellowship, two New York Dance and Performance
“Bessie” Awards, repeated fellowships from the NEA, a fellowship
from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, and repeated support
from the MAP Fund and NYSCA.  He has created two works for
Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. Greenberg is
currently Professor of Choreography at Eugene Lang College of
Liberal Arts, The New School, and has previously taught at
Purchase College, Sarah Lawrence College, and UC Riverside. 
He served as dance curator at The Kitchen in NYC from
1995-1999.  His most recent project, To the things
themselves! (2018), continues his interest in the move
away from representation toward an experience of the performance
moment in and of itself.


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