HomeClasses and EventsEventsMELT Reading Group: The sloppy economy of aesthetic perception, and other stories
  • Tue, Jul 22, 2025 | 6:30-8:00PM
Two dancers in different positions, both wearing boldly patterned baggy-crotch tights and dark t-shirts, and both with limp wrists, hands hanging. The stage on which they are dancing also includes a microphone stand and two white columns, with black vases next to the base of each column. photo by Frank Mullaney of Johnni Durango and Neil Greenberg in Greenberg's
ID: Two dancers in different positions, both wearing boldly patterned baggy-crotch tights and dark t-shirts, and both with limp wrists, hands hanging. The stage on which they are dancing also includes a microphone stand and two white columns, with black vases next to the base of each column. photo by Frank Mullaney of Johnni Durango and Neil Greenberg in Greenberg's "(like a vase)"

In this MELT Reading Group, Neil Greenberg will offer selections from a few readings that have influenced and/or helped him understand his own performance-making: about the “sloppy economy” of aesthetic perception (“Form and meaning in art” by Per Aage Brandt); about different subjective positionings in relation to viewers (“The Audience: Subjectivity, Community and the Ethics of Listening,” by Alice Rayner); and in relation to queer aesthetics (“The Queer Art of Failure” by Jack Halberstam, “Cruising Utopia” by José Esteban Muñoz). It sounds like a lot – but he promises to keep the selections focused!

Accessibility Notes

  • This event includes auditive guidance.
  • This event includes text/images/video shared on a large screen tv.
  • This event includes digital readings.

To request ASL interpretation or Audio Description, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “ASL/Audio Description Request, MELT Reading Group ” at least three (3) weeks prior to the event date.

For access-related questions and requests, please contact accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “MELT Reading Group.”

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Location

MR, 122CC – Courtyard Studio
150 First Avenue
New York, NY 10009

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Artists

Neil Greenberg

Neil Greenberg

I’m a choreographer, dancer and educator, perhaps best known for my Not-About-AIDS-Dance (1994), which employs projected text as a layering strategy to provide doors into spaces for meaning(fulness) in the dance, while raising questions about the nature of meaning-making.

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