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The 2026 Research In Action Awards!! What an absolute honor to host RIAA with @treatmentactiongroup for the fourth year in a row! It’s a privilege to stand with the revolutionaries, artists, scientists, and activists that make up TAG’s community Congratulations to this year’s honorees: Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, Morgan Bassichis, and Asia Russell Thank you to @leandrojusten for the gorgeous photos And to my family for inspiring and supporting me always. “Social justice is a family affair!”
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What an unforgettable night! ❤️ Our 2026 Research in Action Awards brought together an extraordinary community of advocates, artists, researchers, and supporters to celebrate the people and passion driving progress against HIV, tuberculosis, and hepatitis C. Together, we've raised almost $300,000 and counting to support TAG's mission! Congratulations to our incredible honorees Asia Russell, Dr. LaRon E. Nelson, and Morgan Bassichis, and special thanks to Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Lafferty, and Owen Prum for their beautiful performance. We were also proud to celebrate Eric Rhein, our 2026 Limited Art Edition artist, and showcase 11 past editions highlighting the powerful intersection of art and activism. Here's a first look at some of the magic from the evening! Coming later this week: Our full event photo album, video of the evening's program, and a complete list of the generous donors and sponsors who made RIAA 2026 possible. Thank you to everyone who helped make this night such a success. Together, we're advancing science, access, and the fight to end these epidemics. 📸: @leandrojusten #RIAA2026 #TreatmentActionGroup #HIVActivism #EndTB #EndHIV #ArtAndActivism
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We did it! 9 days to go and we're at 100% of our initial Kickstarter campaign goal of $10,000. ON TO OUR STRETCH GOAL OF $12,000, which will assist in paying my collaborators for their work on the lighting, music, and costumes. Huge thanks to our recent contributors: @busterhollow, @tereoconnor, @markquimark, Leah, @barbara_mahler, @tomdanielcole, @cjbriglia, @nancydalva, @miriam.a.cooper, Ivy, Irene Chaldaris, Rachel Lampert, & @rob_mains You helped us get past the finish line! I'm truly grateful. Please check out our project thru the link below and my profile page, and help spread the word. Your support is GREATLY appreciated, in whatever form. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/neilgreenberg/next-dance pictured: Owen Prum, Neil Greenberg, and Jennifer Lafferty Photo by Rachel Keane @rk_co_image
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Such a beautiful #RIA2026 benefiting the important work of @treatmentactiongroup, so proud of @ds19a and @ivypachamama and of course honorees including @morgankindof 💘✨
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Created in honor of the beloved artist/performer/director and co-founder of Mabou Mines, the Ruth Maleczech Award celebrates performers who embody Ruth’s daring, raw, and fearless spirit. Congratulations 2026 awardees Neil Greenberg and Holly Hughes and thank you to all who came to celebrate. #ruthieaward #maboumines #ruthmaleczech #neilgreenberg #hollyhughes
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The Research in Action Awards (RIAA) are on Thursday, October 15, from 6 - 9 p.m. at the Angel Orensanz Foundation at 172 Norfolk St. in the Lower East Side. The RIAA is TAG’s biggest night of the year and celebrates the scientists, artists, and researchers working to end HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and hepatitis C. This year’s RIAA performance will be showcased by Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Lafferty, and Owen Prum forming an excerpt from a work-in-progress by Neil Greenberg titled “Next Dance”. Neil Greenberg is an American dancer, post-modern choreographer, and educator based in New York City. He came to New York from Minnesota in 1976 and danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1979-1986. He is known for his “Not-About-AIDS-Dance”, which employs his signature use of projected text as a layering strategy that provides doors into “meanings” in the dance, while also raising questions about the nature of meaning-making. Neil has won a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Bessie Awards, and fellowships from the NEA, NYFA, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among other honors, and just received a 2026 Ruth Maleczech award. “Next Dance”, a new 50-minute work, explores "next-ness," the possibilities that arise from working within constraints, and "dance-ness," using material drawn verbatim from the performers' recorded improvisations. As Neil says, it's also his next dance. Learn more and buy tickets at the link in our bio.
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Thrilled to announce 2026 Ruthie Awardee! Neil Greenberg came to New York from Minnesota in 1976 and danced with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company from 1979-1986. He is known especially for his “Not-About-AIDS-Dance,” which employs his signature use of projected text as a layering strategy that provides doors into “meanings” in the dance, while also raising questions about the nature of meaning-making. He has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and two Bessie Awards, repeated fellowships from the NEA and NYFA, a fellowship from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, a NDP Production grant, a Doris Duke Creative Exploration Award, and repeated support from the MAP Fund and NYSCA. He has created two works for Mikhail Baryshnikov’s White Oak Dance Project. Greenberg has taught at Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School, UC Riverside, Purchase College and Sarah Lawrence College. He served as dance curator at The Kitchen from 1995-1999. His most recent project, Betsy (2022, La Mama) continues his perhaps utopian interest in moving away from representation toward an experience of the performance moment in and of itself. He is currently working on “Next Dance,” which will be performed at The Chocolate Factory Theater November 12-21, 2026. Photos by Frank Mullaney, Paula Lobo, and Johan Elbers The Ruth Maleczech Award is a no-strings-attached cash award granted by Mabou Mines together with Ruth’s family, Clove Galilee and Lute Breuer. The awardee is selected through a nomination process and is given to a performer who embodies Ruth’s daring and raw, naked, fearlessness in every performance. “The Ruthie” was created to honor Ruth Maleczech, the beloved artist/performer/director and co-founder of Mabou Mines. She was an inspiration, a mentor, and a role model for countless artists. #ruthieaward #artist #maboumines #ruthmaleczech #neilgreenberg
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😎SUMMER MELT WEEK 4: Jul 27-31! | Join Neil Greenberg @neilgberg for ‘Dance Queering Strategies’ Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/workshops/3024/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 3:30pm - 6pm Price: Sliding scale, $200-$300 Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: Queer as adjective, verb, and noun: What might make a performance action queer? What is it to queer performance? What constitutes a queering? The workshop will rely on discourse, both choreographic and verbal, as a means of critical reflection of our own taken-for-granted assumptions about dance, choreography and performance, as well as the normative assumptions of the traditions in which we each participate. Participants will develop palettes of materials—movement, ideas, questions—via directed improvisation, then experiment to find different strategies for organizing the materials. We’ll then bring those explorations forward through performance-making experiments that center on the queering of form and process – irrespective of whether the actual materials or performance actions are explicitly queer (though we’ll look at that possibility too)... About the artist: 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)... (ID in comments in comments/ALT text.) Workshop: Neil, a white man with short brown hair, is sitting on the floor and smiling goofily at something he seeing beyond the camera frame. He wears a purple tank top and black shorts. Four workshop participants are sitting on the floor surrounding Neil. One participant looks at Neil, while two others are looking off camera and are smiling. The back of the fourth participant's head is pictured, nearest to the camera. Photo by Rachel Keane.
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😎 JOIN US FOR WEEK 4 SUMMER MELT: JULY 27-31! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/melt What is MELT? MELT Intensives are a series of daily workshops in technique, somatics, improvisation, composition and other areas offered each summer and winter. These workshops provide students with the unique opportunity to engage with some of the most highly regarded and innovative artists in the field of dance today. *Workshop will take place over Zoom Week 4: Mon - Fri, Jul 27-31 | In-person and virtual 10am-12pm | Angie Pittman @angellaellaella 12-1pm EDT | Virtual with Petra Kuppers @petraturtledisco 1-3pm | mayfield brooks @mayfieldbrookz 3:30-6pm | Neil Greenberg @neilgberg MELT Event with Angie Pittman | Thu, Jul 30, 2026 | 6:30-8pm (ID: Summer MELT 2025 with mayfield brooks, 2 participants. Photo by Rachel Keane.)
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Pride began in the streets of New York — an act of defiance, a declaration of existence. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ This June, CAS Pride honors that legacy through the creativity and courage of queer artists rooted right here in the Catskills. We're proud to present Frank Mullaney's Wallpaper Saints — a luminous, tender, and provocative tribute to the late Livingston Manor artist. Inspired by the holy prayer cards of his Irish Catholic youth, Mullaney transforms childhood shame into sacred portraiture: intimate nudes of gay and trans subjects, where vulnerability becomes a great equalizer. Also showing: Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity, a documentary about the fearless STREB Extreme Action Company, for whom "anything too safe is not action." (83 min.) Come to be moved. Come to be seen. Come to celebrate the lives and art that refuse to be erased. 🕯️ Frank Mullaney, Wallpaper Saints June 12–14 Born to Fly: Elizabeth Streb vs. Gravity June 20, 4pm A heartfelt thank-you to our sponsors and the local businesses of the Catskills who make this possible. Your support is proof that community shows up for community — and that allyship is most powerful when it's rooted right where you live.
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Photos of joy and hope and love from the reopening Celebration of CAN I BE FRANK? 5/26 📸 @valnovaphotography
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😎WEEK 3: Jul 27-31! MELT Registration is open!! | Join Neil Greenberg @neilgberg PLAN YOUR NYC SUMMER! Dance, move, explore, sweat, MELT with us! Learn more and register on our website: https://movementresearch.org/workshops/3024/ When: Mon - Fri, Jul 27 - 31, 2026 Time: 3:30pm - 6:00pm Location: MR Studios, 150 First Avenue About this workshop: Queer as adjective, verb, and noun: What might make a performance action queer? What is it to queer performance? What constitutes a queering? The workshop will rely on discourse, both choreographic and verbal, as a means of critical reflection of our own taken-for-granted assumptions about dance, choreography and performance, as well as the normative assumptions of the traditions in which we each participate. Participants will develop palettes of materials—movement, ideas, questions—via directed improvisation, then experiment to find different strategies for organizing the materials. We’ll then bring those explorations forward through performance-making experiments that center on the queering of form and process – irrespective of whether the actual materials or performance actions are explicitly queer (though we’ll look at that possibility too)... About the artist: 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... [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.]
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