The 2022 performances at The NYC AIDS Memorial took place over a steaming-hot July weekend, with shows at dusk and in broad daylight, thus we were not able to include the original text projections.
For a 2023 presentation by the Catskill Art Space (CAS) in Livingston Manor, NY, I was able to include the original text projections, slightly revised from the original. I also wrote a new text that provided some frame of reference for the work, which was projected on a loop as the audience entered the space. With these new projections I was continuing in the vein of the first-person text I wrote for the 2021 and 2022 gallery installations of The Disco Project that reflected on the circumstances of each show, and the commentary that greeted audiences as they entered the space for Betsy.
Another facet of The Disco Project Remix: I was the only performer who was in the original 1995 work. I think this, and my age, figured into the reception of the work as well. Still kicking.
Credits
The Disco Project Remix 2021
New York City AIDS Memorial
July 21-23, 2022
Performed by: Daniela Garcia-Arce, Lily Gold, Neil Greenberg, Opal Ingle, Carlo Antonio Villaneuva
Stage Manager: Tess Dworman
Curated for the NYC AIDS Memorial by: Nick Hallett
The Disco Project Remix 2022
Catskill Art Space in Livingston Manor, NY
Performed by: Cayleen Del Rosario, Charles Gowin, Neil Greenberg, Jennifer Lafferty, Stuart Singer
Stage Manager: Opal Ingle
Curated by: Sally Wright
Choreography & Text: Neil Greenberg
Music: Sylvester & Patrick Cowley, Do Ya Wanna Funk?; RuPaul, Jimmy Harry & Larry Tee, Supermodel (You Better Work), Couture Mix, performed by RuPaul; Bernard Edwards & Nile Rogers, We Are Family, Sure is Pure Remix, performed by Sister Sledge; Clifton Davis, Never Can Say Goodbye, performed by Jimmy Somerville & the Communards
Costumes: Suzanne Gallo
Video documentation produced by The NYC AIDS Memorial
Videography by Peter Richards, recorded July 25-28, 2022
Support
Commissioned by The NYC AIDS Memorial
Additional Links
Text for The Disco Project Remix 2023, Catskill Art Space
The Disco Project Remix, 2023
Dress Rehearsal, Catskill Art Space
L-R: Neil Greenberg, Carlo Antonio Villaneuva, Opal Ingle
© John Jesurun, 2022
Opal Ingle
© Nat DeWolf, 2022
Neil Greenberg
© Nat DeWolf, 2022
L-R: Stuart Singer, Cayleen Del Rosario, Charles Gowin, Jennifer Lafferty
© Semantha Norris, 2023
Charles Gowin
© Semantha Norris, 2023
L-R: Stuart Singer, Cayleen Del Rosario, Charles Gowin, Jennifer Lafferty
© Semantha Norris, 2023