1972 – THE MATTER
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"David Gordon's The Matter" by Karen Smith in The Drama Review September 1972 PDF
"The Matter: A description" by Karen Smith in The Drama Review September 1972 PDF
"Grand Union: Taking a Chance on Dance" by Robb Baker in DanceMagazine October 1973 PDF
"An Interview with David Gordon" by Sally Banes in Eddy 1977 PDF
"David Gordon, or, The Ambiguities" by Sally Banes in The Village Voice May 1, 1978 PDF
"David Gordon and Valda Setterfield Part 2" by Nancy Stark Smith in Contact Quarterly IV No. 3 1979 PDF
"Dance is Play on Words" by Jack Anderson in The New York Times April 14, 1979 LINK
"Cutting the Gordon Knot" by Sally Banes in The SoHo Weekly News April 19, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon's Verbal Choreography Has Verve" by Doris Diether in The Villager April 19, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon Poses" by Barbara Newman in The New York Guide April 23-29, 1979 PDF
"Enhancing the Individual" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice April 30, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon's Pope" by Susan Reiter in Other Stages May 3, 1979 PDF
"Stepping out in New York" by Alan Brissenden in The Advertiser May 19, 1979 PDF
By anon in DanceMagazine July 1979 PDF
"Gordon pleasing audiences at MoMing" by Linda Winer in The Chicago Tribune July 13, 1979 PDF
"Interview with David Gordon" by Barbara Woehler September 18, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon - words to dance by" by Holly Brubach in Vogue December 1979 PDF
"Frieze Frame" by Noel Carroll in The Soho Weekly News December 6, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon: The Ambiguities" by Sally Banes in Terpsichore in Sneakers 1980 PDF
"David Gordon: intensifying the ordinary" by Janice Ross in The Dance Review January 10, 1980 PDF
"The poker-face approach to the absurd" by Dale Harris in The Guardian January 29, 1980 PDF
"Dance Umbrella" by Mary Clarke in The Guardian January 31, 1980 PDF
"Moving On" by Jan Murray in Time Out New York February 1980 PDF
"Under the Umbrella" by Alexander Bland in The Observer February 3, 1980 PDF
"Dance Umbrella l'avant-garde" by David Vaughan in Danse Paris February 15, 1980 PDF
"Prisoners of the Lens" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice June 23, 1980 PDF
"Gordon's specialty: modern dance leftovers" by Robert Douglass in the Fort Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1980 PDF
"Tracing Postmodern Steps" by Lewis Segal in the Los Angeles Times October 27, 2000 PDF
"Baryshnikov moves ahead to 1960s, '70s" and "Baryshnikov steps out of the spotlight for "PASTForward" by Elizabeth Zimmer in The Philadelphia Inquirer May 6, 2001 PDF
"Baryshnikov takes bold steps in new work" by Christine Temin in The Boston Globe May 18, 2001 PDF
"A History Lesson on Postmodern Dance" by Sylviane Gold in Newsday June 7, 2001 PDF
"The Old is New Again, as the Muse Endures" by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times October 26, 2012 LINK
RE-USED PERFORMANCE MATERIALS:
Sections: Oh Yes, Men's Dance, One Part, '62 Mannequin
Excerpts included in: '79 The Matter (Plus and Minus), '80 Performance Collage, '83 The Photographer, '99 Autobiography of a Liar, '00 Past/Forward, '12 The Matter/2012: Art & Archive
PERFORMANCES:
@ Grand Union residency, Oberlin College, OH 1972 Program PDF
@ Merce Cunningham Dance Studio, NYC 1972 Program PDF
@ Joe LoGiudice Dance Gallery, NYC 1972 as David Gordon solo
@ The Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, San Francisco, CA 1979 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ Setterfield-Gordon SoHo Studio, NYC 1979 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ MoMing Dance and Arts Center, Chicago, IL 1979 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ Chautauqua, Boulder, CO 1979 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ Riverside Studios, London, England 1980 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ Making Dances: Seven Postmodern Choreographers by Michael Blackwood 1980 excerpt: One Part as Valda Setterfield solo
@ Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA 1996 excerpt: One Part Program PDF