1982 – TRYING TIMES
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
PERFORMANCE TEXTS:
Trying Times "The Trial" Script PDF
Trying Times "Then What Happened?" Script PDF
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"Dance: 'Trying Times'" by Jack Anderson in The New York Times December 6, 1982 LINK
"David Gordon's Dance Ironies" by Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times December 12, 1982 LINK
"Does He Mean You Know What?" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice December 21, 1982 PDF
By Robert Greskovic in Ballet News April 1983 PDF
"7. Elizabeth Zimmer" by Elizabeth Zimmer in DanceMagazine April 1983 PDF
"People may talk about (but not in) Gordon's new work" by Mike Steele in the Minneapolis Star and Tribune April 1, 1983 PDF
"Life Studies" by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker June 18, 1984 PDF
"An artist's evolution" by Judith Green in the San Francisco Examiner 1994 PDF
"Making a Case for Classics Uncovered or Rediscovered" by Alastair Macaulay in The New York Times September 10, 2007 LINK
"The 'Times' of His Past, Returning to Its Birthplace" by Gia Kourlas in The New York Times September 7, 2008 LINK
"'Trying' means doing it over" by Diane Haithman in the Los Angeles Times December 2, 2008 PDF
"'Trying Times' revisited" by Sara Wolf in the Los Angeles Times December 5, 2008 PDF
"The Week Ahead - Dance" by Roslyn Sulcas in The New York Times December 7, 2008 LINK
"The time is ripe" by Gia Kourlas in Time Out New York December 11-17, 2008 PDF
"Fuzzily Looking Back, Aided by Ghosts" by Claudia La Rocco in The New York Times December 13, 2008 LINK
"David Gordon Makes His Past New" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice December 17, 2008 PDF
PHOTO ALBUM:
Trying Times Photos
RE-USED PERFORMANCE MATERIALS:
Excerpts included in: '99 Autobiography of a Liar, '07-'08 Trying Times (remembered)
PERFORMANCES:
@ Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 1982 Program PDF *Watch here at Digital Collections NYPL
@ Silver Series, Danspace Project, St. Mark's Church, NYC 1999 as part of Autobiography of a Liar Program PDF
@ River to River Festival, Battery Park, The Joyce Theater, NYC 2007 Program PDF *Watch here at Digital Collections NYPL