1979 – THE MATTER (PLUS AND MINUS)
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
PERFORMANCE TEXTS:
The Matter (Plus and Minus) "Solo Score" Score PDF
The Matter (Plus and Minus) Score PDF
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"Carry Me Back to Act IV" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice December 1979 PDF
"Frieze Frame" by Noel Carroll in The Soho Weekly News December 6, 1979 PDF
"Far From Denmark" by Marcia B. Siegel in The Soho Weekly News December 13, 1979 PDF
"Modern Dance: David Gordon's 'Matter'" by Anna Kisselgoff in The New York Times December 6, 1979 LINK
"Far From Denmark" by Marcia B. Siegel in The Soho Weekly News December 13, 1979 PDF
"Carry Me Back to Act IV" by Deborah Jowitt in The Village Voice December 24, 1979 PDF
"David Gordon: intensifying the ordinary" by Janice Ross in The Dance Review January 10, 1980 PDF
"Pick Up Company Riverside" by John Percival in The Times London January 30, 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
"With David Gordon, Casual Movement Can Be Choreography" by Pamela Reasner in the Pittsburgh Press January 15, 1981 PDF
"Dance Pair Matches Movement With Wit" by Pamela Reasner in The Pittsburgh Press January 17, 1981 PDF
"Dance: Week's Festival of New Dance Begins" by Anna Kisselgoff in The New York Times October 5, 1981 LINK
"They Call it Post-Modern" by Dee Dee Hooker in the Spectator Raleigh October 15, 1981 PDF
Program note by Sali Ann Kriegsman in Smithsonian Institution, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, D.C. 1982 Program PDF
"A Refreshing View of Language, Movement" by Marilyn Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle June 14, 1982 PDF
"The Elastic Antics of David Gordon" by Pamela Sommers in The Washington Post October 31, 1982 PDF
"David Gordon" by Suzanne Levy in The Washington Post November 2, 1982 PDF
"Making Work" by Arlene Croce in The New Yorker November 29, 1982 LINK
"Pranks and Ironies" by Anne Pierce and "Theatrical Hijinks" by Meade Andrews in the Washington DanceView January-February 1983 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
"David Gordon Lights Up Your Mind" by Burt Supree in The Village Voice May 21, 1985 PDF
"Lighter than Meaning and Larger than Air" by Mindy Aloff in On The Next Wave November 1986 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:
Based on '72 The Matter
Sections: Broom (by Ain Gordon), Oh Yes, Song and Dance, Close Up, One Part of the Matter, Solo Score, '62 Mannequin
Excerpts included in: '80 Performance Collage, '80 By Two, '82 10 Minute TV, '83 The Photographer, '99 Autobiography of a Liar, '01 FAMILY$DEATH@ART.COMedy, '12 The Matter/2012: Art & Archive, '20 The Philadelphia Matter 1972/2020
Archive excerpts included in: '16 Live Archiveography
PERFORMANCES:
@ Camera Mart/Stage One, NYC 1979 Program PDF
@ The Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, San Francisco, CA 1979 excerpt: Solo Score Program PDF
@ Riverside Studios, London, England 1980 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland, OR 1980 Program PDF
@ Setterfield-Gordon SoHo Studio, NYC 1980 excerpt: Song and Dance, Close Up plus Two Duets Program PDF
@ Beyond the Mainstream on PBS 1980
@ Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, PA 1981 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ New Dance USA, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1981 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ Smithsonian Institution, Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, D.C. 1982 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ Emelin Theater, Mamaroneck, NY 1984 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ Silver Series, Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, NY 1999 as part of Autobiography of a Liar Program PDF
@ Danspace Project, St. Mark’s Church, NY 2001 Benefit concert excerpt: Close Up Program PDF
@ Dancing for the Bravest and Finest, The Joyce Theater, NY 2001 excerpt: Close Up Program PDF