Press
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 [...]
Gay Dance Now
Gay City News
By BRIAN McCORMICK
Published: 06/05/2008
Memory and the other ephemeral residue of lived experience are at the heart of the work of choreographer Neil Greenberg. An esteemed teacher and dance-maker with a Cunningham legacy infused with his own specific artistic vision, Greenberg’s two-week season at Dance Theater Workshop features the premiere of “Really Queer Dance [...]
It’s all in the wrist
Neil Greenberg makes the “queer male body” move.
Time Out New York
By GIA KOURLAS
Published:Jun 4–10, 2008
There is queer and then there’s queer. Both implications—relating to oddness or sexuality—can apply to Neil Greenberg’s Really Queer Dance with Harps, in which the choreographer continues to explore terrain he first traversed in 2006’s Quartet with Three Gay Men: self-censorship. [...]
If you missed the Gala…
Check out The New York Times Urban Eye coverage of the event. It even includes a banner sighting!
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A Puppet Who Dances Like a Real Boy
The New York Times
by GIA KOURLAS
Published: May, 30 2008
Nami Yamamoto’s new dance, “a howling flower,” is a work for six stellar performers and a puppet named Tony, an enchanting creature both for the way he looks and for the way he compels the others to act.
O.K., People, Shake Those Hairy Swimsuits
The New York Times
By GIA KOURLAS
Published: May 26, 2008
Photo: G. Paul Burnett/The New York Times
At the start of “Champions of Dance: Make Millions!,” the choreographer Ashley Byler walks carefully into the studio space, hesitantly pushes back a curtain hiding a mirror and smooths an eyebrow.
Talking to the audience through her reflection, she gently [...]
Not all dances inhabit an ivory tower
Deborah Jowitt reviews Rachid Ourmadane’s Far… in The Village Voice.
“In the process of querying identity, Ouramdane— darkly, vulnerably—probes the twisted roots of violence and inhumanity.” Read the full review.
GO: Eleanor Bauer’s “At Large”
Apollinaire Scherr writes about Bauer’s show on her Foot in Mouth blog.
“…how nice for a change, this rigorous excess rather than the usual dour minimalism or clubby encodedness…” Check the full post here.
