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DANCE BY NEIL GREENBERG was formed in 1986 and has since been
presented in over seventeen New York City productions—at
Dance Theater Workshop, the Danspace Project at St. Mark’s
Church, The Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, La Mama, 92nd Street
Y Harkness Dance Project and Performance Space 122—and
on tour.
DBNG has garnered three New York Dance and Performance Awards
(Bessies), including choreography (Neil Greenberg), lighting
design (Michael Stiller) and performance (Paige Martin). Twice
the company has been honored as one of the 10 High Points of
the Year by Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times—in
2003 for Two and in 1995 for Not-About-AIDS-Dance.
The company has received repeated grants
from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Harkness Foundation
for Dance and the James E. Robison Foundation, and has also
received support from the National Dance Project of the New
England Foundation for the Arts, Dance Ink Foundation, Meet
The Composer’s Composer / Choreographer Project, Metropolitan
Life Foundation’s Emerging Dance Program, New York Foundation
for the Arts BUILD program, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation,
the Jerome Foundation’s First Light program and the Purchase
College Faculty Support Fund.
Collaborations include those with Greenberg’s longtime
collaborators, composer Zeena Parkins and lighting designer
Michael Stiller, and with playwright, director and designer
John Jesurun, composer Chris Cochrane, visual artist Cary S.
Leibowitz/Candyass, writer and director Fiona Templeton and
video artist Charles Dennis. In 1995 the company began appearances
in John Jesurun’s serial play Chang In A Void Moon
under the nom-de-danse "Baby Hokaido and Bunzel
Dance Group."
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