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.https://vimeo.com/channels/neilgreenbergneilgreenberg.org