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What I like about him…
Apollinaire Scherr writes about Neil Greenberg’s June performances on her blog, Foot in Mouth.
“‘It’s so internal!’ my friend Amanda says with admiration about Neil Greenberg’s “Really Queer Dance with Harps,” which premiered a couple of weeks ago at Dance Theater Workshop. One move–a series of changements on half-point–reminded her of a schizophrenic she’d seen [...]
How many steps does it take to make a world?
Deborah Jowitt reviews Neil Greenberg’s Really Queer Dance with Harps and Quartet for Three Gay Men.
“…Greenberg queries in poetic, unemphatic ways our habit of defining what’s ‘masculine’ and what’s ‘feminine.’” Read the full review at The Village Voice online.
Nancy Dalva - Letters From New York
Nancy features Neil Greenberg on her Letters From New York Blog. Check it out!
A beloved dance by Neil Greenberg
“…it’s a fantastic dance, too, like a prism breaking Greenberg into four avatars who render his spacious movement with luscious, queerforward simplicity. ”
- Eva Yaa Asantewaa on Neil Greenberg’s Quartet for Three Gay Men. Read her post here.
The Gay Science
Over at The Winger, Tony Schultz writes on Neil Greenberg’s Quartet with Three Gay Men and Really Queer Dance with Harps - noting some worthwhile “questions and instabilities” that rise from the queer in Neil’s choreography. Read his post here.
Best of New York Today - Wednesday, June 18
New York Times Urban Eye
When Merely ‘Queer Dance’ Isn’t Enough
A dancer with the Merce Cunningham company, Neil Greenberg is also a choreographer who “has a way with witty, sensual dances that are far more mysterious than their eye-catching titles might imply,” writes Claudia La Rocco. Tonight at DTW, he’ll show [...]
Bending Gender Every Which Way
The New York Times
by ROSLYN SULCAS
Published: June 14, 2008
Photo: Erin Baiano for The New York Times
It’s a mystery why sometimes a few people moving on a stage in apparently random patterns can look so right. In the first 10 seconds — maybe 5 — of Dance by Neil Greenberg’s “Quartet With Three Gay Men,” [...]
Dancer’s queer theory
Greenberg explores ‘transgressive’ steps
metro new york
By gus solomons jr.
Published: June 12, 2008
In a recent rehearsal onstage at Dance Theater Workshop, four women, singly, wander onto the dancing space, which in performance they’ll share with three harpists, including composer Zeena Parkins.
The women move in their own orbits, lunging low, flapping arms like languorous seagulls, swinging [...]
Reasons to see Neil Greenberg’s “Really Queer Dance With Harps”
include, in no particular order: the title; Mr. Greenberg’s penchant for mixing the witty and the heartbreaking; its being part of a bill that includes his excellent “Quartet With Three Gay Men”; a live score by the marvelous Zeena Parkins; and, once more with feeling, the title.
- Claudia La Rocco, The [...]
