DANCE BY NEIL GREENBERG was formed in 1986 and has since been presented in over twenty 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. Greenberg's choreographic philosophy is grounded in his experience as a dancer with the Merce Cunningham Company from 1979-1986, from which Greenberg has maintained the aesthetic stance of working with "what is"—which for him includes working with the bodies and personal histories of the dancers onstage and the acknowledgement of performance itself. Greenberg explores physical extravagance and flamboyance in his work, taking risks in the juxtaposing of clear choreographic structures and expressive, sometimes “over-the-top” dancing. Though Greenberg's dances employ aspects of narrative, often through the use of fragments of dramatic, emotionally-charged music or projected text or images, these strategies are employed to reveal aspects of the company's creative process to the audience and to supply aspects of narrative. engaged, The hope is that the viewer, while engaged with these extra-dance elements, might experience some of the potencies, the “meanings,” of the dancing itself. It is with these goals that the company creates and presents new work each year and teaches workshops in choreography and movement techniques. The company has received repeated grants from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Harkness Foundation for Dance, The Multi-Arts Production (MAP) Fund, American Music Center's Live Music for Dance Program 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.