1984 – FIELD, CHAIR AND MOUNTAIN

 
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
 
 
 
 
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"David Gordon's Field, Chair and Mountain for American Ballet Theatre..." by Otis Stuart in Deutsch PDF
 
"Washington, D.C." by anon in Ballet News PDF
 
"The Night They Booed the Ballet" by Lloyd Grove and "Gordon's Bold Steps" by Alan M. Kriegsman in The Washington Post December 22, 1984 PDF
 
"David Gordon's Uptown Whirl" by anon in On Point 1985 PDF
 
"Experiments" by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker 1985 PDF
 
"Old (New) Master in a New (Old) Role" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice January 15, 1985 PDF
 
"ABT opens season with humor, romance" by Laurie Horn in The Miami Herald January 24, 1985 PDF
 
"ABT opens with a witty new ballet" by Richard Christiansen in the Chicago Tribune February 7, 1985 PDF
 
"Field, Chair and Mountain Einstein on the Beach" by Mindy Aloff in The Nation February 16, 1985 PDF
 
"Smiles of a Winter Night" by Martha Duffy in Time Magazine February 25, 1985 PDF
 
"Dancing With Stars, Smirks and Chairs" by Martin Bernheimer in the Los Angeles Times March 7, 1985 PDF
 
"A Postmodern Artist Meets the Ballet Theater" by Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times April 26, 1985 LINK
 
"Ballet Theater: A New Work by David Gordon" by Anna Kisselgoff in The New York Times April 29, 1985 LINK
 
"It's Caspar Milquetoast at the Ballet" by Clive Barnes in The New York Post April 29, 1985 PDF
 
"Gordon Rules" by Thomas Connors in Vanity Fair May 1985 PDF
 
"Man in Demand" by Susan Reiter in Ballet News May 1985 PDF
 
"David Gordon Lights Up Your Mind" by Burt Supree in The Village Voice May 21, 1985 PDF
 
"Gordon opts for verbal silences" by Wynne Delacoma in the Chicago Sun-Times May 30, 1985 PDF
 
"Gordon dancers find perfect balance" by Richard Christiansen in the Chicago Tribune May 31, 1985 PDF
 
"Spurring Dance Troupes to Take Risks" by Barry Laine in The New York Times June 16, 1985 LINK
 
"ABT Gets Away with 'Murder'" by Marilyn Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle March 1, 1986 PDF
 
"A marriage of two like minds" by Allan Ulrich in the San Francisco Examiner May 1, 1986 PDF
 
"Pick Up game" by Lisa F. Hillyer in The Boston Phoenix July 22, 1986 PDF
 
"Lighter than Meaning and Larger than Air" by Mindy Aloff in On The Next Wave November 1986 PDF
 
"Dialogue With Arabesques" by Janice Berman in TV Report October 18-24, 1987 PDF
 
"the double identity of David Gordon" by Roger Copeland in Dance Theatre Journal 1996 PDF
 
"David Gordon: Double Identity" by Roger Copeland in American Theatre July/August 1996 PDF
 
"Mikhail Baryshnikov is from Mars. David Gordon is from Venus." by Gia Kourlas in Time Out New York May 1, 2001 PDF
 
 
RE-USED PERFORMANCE MATERIALS:
Based in part on: '84 Field Study
 
 
PERFORMANCES:

*Watch Oct. '84 rehearsal here at Digital Collections NYPL 

@ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 1984 Program PDF
@ Miami Beach Theater of the Performing Arts, FL 1985
@ Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center, NYC 1985 Program PDF
@ Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA 1985