Neil Greenberg

Quick Facts

Full Name	Neil Greenberg
Occupation	Dancer
Date Of Birth	Apr 17, 1959(1959-04-17)
Age	65
Birthplace	Minneapolis
Country	United States
Birth City	Minnesota
Horoscope	Aries

Neil Greenberg Biography

Neil Greenberg is one of the most popular and richest Dancer who was born on April 17, 1959 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Greenberg began dancing at age 4, studying tap at the Nancy Raddatz Dance School, where his older siblings took lessons. At age 11 he began studying ballet and Graham-based modern at the Minnesota Dance Theatre. During this time, Greenberg first saw the Twyla Tharp company, which piqued his interest in post-modern dance. At 17, he left Minnesota to study at Juilliard. He auditioned for the Twyla Tharp company after moving to New York City and was asked to study at the school the company was starting. After his first year at Juilliard, Greenberg danced with the Eliot Feld Company (now known as Ballet Tech) for a summer (where he danced with Mark Morris). After leaving Eliot Feld, he began studying Cechetti Technique with Janet Panetta, whom he studied with, and later assisted, for 13 years. Greenberg danced with multiple choreographers at this time; Patrice M. Regnier and Rush Dance, Rachel Lampert & Dancers, and Manuel Alum. At this time, Greenberg took his first Cunningham class with June Finch. He was drawn to the straightforward, anti-narrative approach of the movement and choreography. At age 20, in 1978, he began studying at the Cunningham studio, and in 1979 he was asked to join the company.

While Greenberg was dancing with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, he began presenting dances at the Cunningham Studio, and later at St. Mark’s Church. His dance “Amnesty”, that premiered in 1985, was the first work of his to receive substantial attention. It featured Greenberg alongside former Cunningham dancer Louise Burns, as well as Janet Panetta and Susan Blankensop. One critic theorized that perhaps the title was a reference to Greenberg’s differentiating himself from the Cunningham Company, which he was still a part of at the time. This hypothesis manifested the following spring when Greenberg made his first piece after leaving the company, entitled “Morphine”. His next dance, “Macguffin, or How Meaning Gets Lost” (1987) shows Greenberg’s early use of film as inspiration, later seen in his dances “This is What happened” (1999) and “Sequel” (2000). Greenberg has spoken about being influenced by Alfred Hitchcock in terms of using techniques found in suspense films, as well as filmmakers Akira Kurosawa, Federico Fellini and Martin Scorsese. Macguffin was also the first dance of Greenberg’s to employ the use of text projections, a device that can be seen in many of his subsequent works.

Neil Greenberg Net Worth

Neil Greenberg is one of the richest Dancer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Neil Greenberg 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Neil Greenberg (born April 17, 1959) is an American dancer, post-modern choreographer, and educator. He danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company for seven years, from 1979-1986 before establishing his own company, Dance by Neil Greenberg in 1986.

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Not-About-AIDS-Dance was revived in 2006, the 25th anniversary year of the first reported case of AIDS. While the work had few updates, the fact of 11 years passing gave it a radically different context, due to developments in the lives of the dancers as well as the difference in the role of AIDS in the United States. As one reviewer writes, in regards to the impact of the N-A-A-D revival, “11 years ago it was current events. Now it is history”. The practice of reviving dances is uncommon in contemporary dance, and was done out of a necessity that Greenberg felt to revisit it. It was self-produced, something Greenberg claimed he had not done for 20 years, since the beginning of his career. Out of the five dancers in the original cast, including Greenberg, three of them participated in the revival (Greenberg, Ellen Barnaby, and Justine Lynch) and the roles of Jo Mckendry and Christopher Batenhorst were danced by Paige Martin and Antonio Ramos. However the slides were not updated from the time of the original production and still contained information about the original cast members. The revival was presented alongside a new work of Greenberg’s, “Quartet with Three Gay Men”. This piece was the first work of Greenberg’s to feature an all-male cast, and very purposefully so. The movement, derived from videotaped improvisation, includes flamboyant, oft censured affectation. The dance uses RuPaul’s song “Supermodel”, which Greenberg had been improvising to while creating material for N-A-A-D.

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Greenberg was first commissioned by Mikhail Baryshnikov to be part of Baryshnikov’s White Oak Project in 1998. This commission resulted in “Tchaikovsky Dance”, a piece that contained many elements used previously in Greenberg’s work including text projections, and blasts of music (Tchaikovsky) that interrupt long silences. It included the element of non-fiction and allusion to rehearsal processes common to Greenberg’s work. One such instance was a snippet of text specifying that the solo for Baryshnikov came when it did in the dance because that was the point in the rehearsal process that Baryshnikov returned from tour. Due to the successful reception of the commission, Greenberg was asked to choreograph again for the White Oak Project the following year, in 1999. For this commission he reworked his 1987 piece “Macguffin, or How Meanings Get Lost”. The result was a piece entitled “Macguffin, or How Meanings get Lost (revisited)”, which was mostly a solo for Baryshnikov, who was only joined for the last few minutes of the dance by the other White Oak Dancers; Raquel Aedo, Emily Coates, Emmanuele Phuon, Ruthlyn Salomons and Susan Shields. The dance was set to Bernard Herrmann’s “Psycho, A Narrative for String Orchestra”, a change from the original “Macguffin”, which was danced in silence.