Dance

"My use of extra-dance elements figures into this, asking the viewer to hold two or more different media together simultaneously—for example, live dancing and written text—and negotiate the poetics of perhaps not being able to connect them nor separate them, but to nevertheless experience them."

His most famous and most influential dance, Not-About-AIDS-Dance, was created in response to the death of his brother as well as 8 other friends due to AIDS. He combined body moves with narratives from the screen, and as each media method complements the other, they bring a new perspective to the audience and allow the message to reach the audience uniquely (he also utilizes this method in other projects such as the Disco Project). How the dance moves could be slower or quicker, or the moves became smoother based on the storyline, or how there is one person on the stage on some people's stories while all the dancers perform at the same time in other parts, all have created a unique experience to the audience. By combining this with his message, as well as his announcement of his situation of HIVS, which might be considered to be something people would hide at that time, he allow his message to have a different weight to the audience.

Some of his other works:

Overall, Greenberg's works can be signified mainly by his aim to incorporate different meanings to his dance, as well as incorporate contexts into his dances, which would, he hopes, allow the audience to engage and experience some of the meanings behind the dance itself.

-By Anh and Madeline