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Sequel (2000)
Sequel, Greenberg’s danse-noire
quartet, adds “a new element of lyricism—even
romanticism—to the choreographer’s palette”
(Chris Pasles, The Los Angeles Times). Continuing
Greenberg’s experimentation with narrative in dance,
the work draws raw movement material from videotaped improvisations
of Greenberg dancing to some of Bernard Herrmann’s
most romantic film music, the suspenseful and melodramatic
score to Hitchcock’s Vertigo. Greenberg
uses the devices of flashback, freeze frame and slow pan
as a structural point of departure, and employs an extravagant
and sensual movement language to create an ongoing field
of activity into which isolated fragments of narrative
are etched.
Sequel premiered at The Joyce Theater in New
York City.
(24 minutes, four dancers)
Music:
Bernard Herrmann (excerpts from Vertigo)
Lighting: Michael
Stiller
Music Remixes:
Zeena Parkins
Costumes:
Liz Prince
“The
expansive silences of Neil Greenberg proved how incredibly
sublime textural and communicative movement, all by itself,
can be. It was a delight to spend an evening with the
finely honed wit and movement sensibility of Greenberg…
The movement winds around and doubles back upon itself
(it is a mystery, after all), allowing us the space to
marvel at its imagistic power, and the dancers’
ability to imbue even the vaguest gesture with multiple
textures and meanings.”
“What makes Sequel such a beauty is the
integration of sound and silence, movement, color and
light… Mr. Greenberg is softly dreamy, as if in
another world.”
(Jennifer Dunning,
New York Times) |
Sequel was commissioned by the
2000 Altogether Different Fund for New Works, sponsored
by The Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. Additional support
for Sequel was provided by the New York State Council
on the Arts, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, the James
E.Robison Foundation, the Foundation for Contemporary
Performance Art and the Purchase College Faculty Support
Fund.
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