Faculty
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NEIL GREENBERG
Neil Greenberg has been creating dances since 1979, working primarily in New York City before joining the UCR faculty in 2007. His ongoing choreographic project can be seen as an investigation into the necessarily limited, tentative and temporary nature of meaning-making. Throughout, he's obsessed with the particular kinds of meaning—sensual, perceptual, ontological—that dance can provide. He is known especially for his Not-About-AIDS-Dance, for which he received a New York Dance and Performance ("Bessie") Award, which employs his signature use of projected supertitles as a door into potential meanings in the dance. His recent use of projected video is the latest evolution in his experiments juxtaposing non-dance texts with the onstage dance action, as seen in his 2005 collaboration with theater and media artist John Jesurun, Partial View. His aim is to engage the viewer with a layered sensory experience and provide multiple potential points-of-view—both figuratively and literally. He has also collaborated extensively with composer Zeena Parkins and lighting designer Michael Stiller. Their current project, Really Queer Dance With Harps, will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop (NYC) in June 2008. He has created over twenty major works for his company, Dance By Neil Greenberg, as well as two commissions for Mikhail Baryshnikov's White Oak Dance Project. His works have twice been heralded as among the Ten High Points of the Year in The New York Times: his dance/video work Two in 2003 and Not-About-AIDS-Dance in 1994. A former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company (1979-86), he has taught on the dance faculty of Purchase College (1987-2007) and Sarah Lawrence College. He served as dance curator at The Kitchen, the interdisciplinary performance space in NYC (1995-99), and has served as a panelist for the New York State Council on the Arts, the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the American Masterpieces: Dance - College Component, the Maryland Arts Council, the Movement Research Artist-In-Residence Selection Committee, the Princess Grace Foundation, and on the "Bessies" committee. Among the many grants he has received are fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the NEA, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts.
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