1978 – WHAT HAPPENED?
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"David Gordon Inviting the Audience In" by Susan Reiter in Other Stages October 9, 1978 PDF
"Formal Dancing" by Noel Carroll in The SoHo Weekly News October 12, 1978 PDF
By Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice October 16, 1978 PDF
"Erasures and Afterthoughts" by Marcia B. Siegel in New York Magazine October 16, 1978 PDF
"David Gordon's Talking Dance" by Barbara Naomi Cohen in Manhattan East October 31, 1978 PDF
"New York Newsletter" by David Vaughan in Dancing Times (London) November 1978 PDF
"Dancing" by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker November 6, 1978 LINK
"David Gordon and Valda Setterfield Part 2" by Nancy Stark Smith in Contact Quarterly IV No. 3 1979 PDF
By Linda Small in DanceMagazine February 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
"David Gordon's What Happened" by Burt Barr in The Drama Review September 1979 PDF
"David Gordon - words to dance by" by Holly Brubach in Vogue December 1979 PDF
"Gordon's specialty: modern dance leftovers" by Robert Douglass in the Fort Worth Star Telegram October 26, 1980 PDF
"Fort Worth picks up avante-garde dance" by John Branch in the Dallas Times Herald November 3, 1980 PDF
"Gordon's dance is witty and verbal" by Janice Ross in Tribune Today June 14, 1982 PDF
"TV" by David Vaughan in Ballet News September 1983 PDF
"10 Minute TV David Gordon" by Ronn Smith in Theatre Crafts October 1983 PDF
"David Gordon company at the Emelin" by Georgette Gouveia in the Gannett Westchester Newspapers May 8, 1984 PDF
"Reminiscences With Literally No Holds Barred" by Jack Anderson in The New York Times December 13, 1999 LINK
RE-USED PERFORMANCE MATERIALS:
Based on Story section from '77 Wordsworth and the Motor
Included in: '80 Performance Collage, '99 Autobiography of a Liar, '21 The New Adventures of Old David (What Happebed 1978-2021)
Video version: '82 10 Minute TV
Archive excerpts included in: '16 Live Archiveography
PERFORMANCES:
@ Dance Theater Workshop, NYC 1978 Program PDF *Watch here at Digital Collections NYPL
@ Washington Irving High School, NYC 1979 as Valda Setterfield solo Program PDF
@ Setterfield-Gordon SoHo Studio, NYC 1979 Program PDF
@ Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck, NY 1984 Program PDF
@ Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Becket, MA 1996 Program PDF
@ Silver Series, Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, NYC 1999 as part of Autobiography of a Liar Program PDF