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Two (2003)
- honored as “one of the
10 High Points of the Year”
by Jennifer Dunning of The New York Times
In Two Greenberg incorporates projected video as an
integral element in the choreography. The work investigates
and undermines “either-or” dualities by offering
a layered sensory experience with multiple potential points-of-view,
compelling the audience to make choices as to how to experience
the piece. Live images from onstage cameras, operated by the
dancers, are juxtaposed with found film fragments.
Greenberg also expands upon his technique of collecting movement
material “verbatim” from videotaped improvisations
by presenting the source video to the audience as dancers perform
in unison with his projected image. Jennifer Dunning wrote in
The New York Times about the “new sophistication”
Two brings to the current discourse on dance and media.
Two premiered at Dance Theater Workshop in New York
City.
(35 minutes, four dancers)
Video:
Charles Dennis and Neil Greenberg
Lighting Design:
Michael Stiller
Music and Acoustic Harp:
Zeena Parkins
Costumes:
Liz Prince
Samples from:
Ennio Morricone, Nino Rota, Carl Stalling
“The
space seems suddenly vast and full of possibilities… Two
blessedly discreet cameras capture elements of the fragmented
solos that keep the flow going. Above and behind, on an unframed
rectangle within a back screen, a big billowy exalted Mr. Greenberg
is seen close up in movement performed, simultaneously, by one
of the four live dancers who slip deftly in and out of the crannies
of Two. Mr. Greenberg's presence, his sudden ungimmicky
vanishings and his connection to the dancers all work to expand
the space and choreography exhilaratingly.”
(Jennifer Dunning,
The New York Times) |
Two was
commissioned by the Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commissioning
program of Dance Theater Workshop with funds provided by the
Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation and was created during a residency
provided by The Joyce Theater Foundation, with major support
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Additional support for
Two
was provided by the New York State Council on the Arts, The
Harkness Foundation for Dance, the James E. Robison Foundation,
the Purchase College Faculty Support Fund, and The Experimental
Television Center’s Presentation Funds, supported by the New
York State Council on the Arts.
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