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. My most recent project: Betsy (2022), continues my (utopian) interest in the move away from representation toward an experience of the performance moment in and of itself. In 2021 I created The Disco Project Installation, recontextualizing documentation of my 1995 The Disco Project for exhibition at Greene Naftali (2021) and White Columns (2022), which in turn has led to live performances of The Disco Project Remix (2022) at the NYC AIDS Memorial and at Catskill Art Space (2023). Merce Cunningham Dance Company 1979-86; Dance Curator, The Kitchen 1995-99. Dance faculty – Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School (currently), UC Riverside, Purchase College and Sarah Lawrence College (previously).

Neil a white cis-man with short brown hair and brown moustache, in profile,
head back and looking out and up, with his index finger pointing to and
touching his chin. He's wearing nail-polish that matches the color of his
tank top. Photo by Frank Mullaney.
ID: Neil a white cis-man with short brown hair and brown moustache, in profile, head back and looking out and up, with his index finger pointing to and touching his chin. He's wearing nail-polish that matches the color of his tank top. Photo by Frank Mullaney.