1988 to 1989 – UNITED STATES
DAVID TALKS ABOUT HIMSELF:
PERFORMANCE TEXTS:
United States "Los Angeles" voiceover Script PDF
United States "Minnesota" voiceover Script 1 PDF
United States "Minnesota" voiceover Script 2 PDF
United States "Sang and Sang and the Final Frost" voiceover Script PDF
PEOPLE WRITE ABOUT DAVID:
"Dancing for the Church That Gave Them a Leg Up" by Janice Berman PDF
"Dance on a Theme of San Francisco" by Marilyn Tucker in the San Francisco Chronicle March 18, 1988 PDF
"David Gordon's 'United States'" by Debra Cash in The Boston Globe July 26, 1988 PDF
"Dance essay gaining steam" by Maggie Lewis in The Boston Herald July 29, 1988 PDF
"Pick Up Co. works its way across our land" by Debra Cash in The Boston Globe July 29, 1988 PDF
"Gordon's dance full of style and wit" by Diane C. Grant in The Patriot Ledger July 30, 1988 PDF
"Unifying chairs, dance" by Terry Bauroth in the University Daily Kansan September 9, 1988 PDF
"Pick Up Company surprises, delights" by Carolyn McMaster in The Lawrence Daily Journal-World September 11, 1988 PDF
"'United States' comes together" by Gayle Stamler in the ACUCAA Bulletin October 1988 PDF
"Dance by Consortium: 'United States'" by Pam Lambert in The Wall Street Journal December 14, 1988 PDF
“David Gordon’s Tales, in Movement, of the U.S.” by Jennifer Dunning in The New York Times December 14, 1988 LINK
"Images of the 'United States'" by Janice Berman in New York Newsday December 16, 1988 PDF
"Dancers can't make a wrong move" by Jay Joslyn in The Milwaukee Sentinel February 15, 1989 PDF
"Dancers make journey with poetry, motion" by Tom Strini in The Milwaukee Journal February 15, 1989 PDF
"Putting Together the 'United States'" by Elizabeth Zimmer in The Los Angeles Herald Examiner February 24, 1989 PDF
"'United States' Birth at UCLA's Royce Hall" by Lewis Segal in the Los Angeles Times February 27, 1989 PDF
"A dance of locale-motion" by Allan Ulrich in The San Francisco Examiner March 1, 1989 PDF
"'United States' dance falls flat, cold" by Janice Ross in The Oakland Tribune March 2, 1989 PDF
"David Gordon Discovers America" by Kip Richardson in The Willamette Week March 16-22, 1989 PDF
By Camille Hardy in DanceMagazine April 1989 PDF
"Gordon's 'United States' Is Season's Best" by Carole Mazur in The Albuquerque Journal April 1, 1989 PDF
"Gordon sends ordinary into the absurd" by Joan Pikula in Express-News April 4, 1989 PDF
"Gordon's bit of danced Americana could be a sort of financial pioneer" by Jon Blake in The Seattle Post-Intelligencer April 28, 1989 PDF
"'United States' is propelled into a dazzling melting pot" by Carole Beers in The Seattle Times April 28, 1989 PDF
By anon in Musical America May 1989 PDF
"Gordon's 'United States' dancing entrancing" by Anne Marie Welsh in The San Diego Union May 6, 1989 PDF
"Gordon's Casual Collage" by Alan M. Kriegsman in The Washington Post September 20, 1989 PDF
By Anne Pierce in the Washington Review December 1989-January 1990 PDF
"Mysteries of the Humorous" by Janice Berman in New York Newsday July 11, 1991 PDF
PHOTO ALBUM:
United States Photos
RE-USED PERFORMANCE MATERIALS:
Sections: Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress; Minnesota; Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; New England; New York; Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; San Francisco; Sang and Sang and the Final Frost; Weather; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather.
Debris Flow section included in: '99 Autobiography of a Liar
PERFORMANCES:
@ Ordway Theatre, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1987 Sections: Minnesota Program PDF
@ Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1988 Sections: San Francisco; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA 1988 Sections: Minnesota; Sang and Sang Program PDF
@ Harvard Summer Dance Center at the Loeb Drama Center, MA 1988 Sections: Minnesota; New England; San Francisco Program PDF
@ Murphy Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1988 Sections: San Francisco; New England; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Ordway Theatre, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 1987 Sections: Minnesota Program PDF
@ Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France 1988 Sections: San Francisco; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Theatre Artaud, San Francisco, CA 1988 Sections: Minnesota; Sang and Sang Program PDF
@ Harvard Summer Dance Center at the Loeb Drama Center, MA 1988 Sections: Minnesota; New England; San Francisco Program PDF
@ Murphy Hall, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1988 Sections: San Francisco; New England; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Hopkins Center Theatre, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH 1988 Sections: Minnesota; New England; New York; San Francisco Program PDF
@ Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY 1988 Sections: Minnesota; San Francisco; New York; New England Program PDF
@ Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Pitman Theatre, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI 1989 Sections: Sang and Sang and the Final Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ John van Duzer Theatre, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Theatre Artaud, Lively Arts at Stanford, San Francisco, CA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Sang and sang and the Final Frost; Mozart, Memories, And the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Macky Auditorium, University of California, Boulder, CO 1989 Program PDF
@ Kimo Theatre, Albuquerque, NM 1989 Program PDF
@ McAllister Auditorium, San Antonio, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Kimball Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 1989 Program PDF
@ Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1989 Program PDF
@ Mandeville Theatre, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 1989 Program PDF
@ Next Wave Festival, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY 1988 Sections: Minnesota; San Francisco; New York; New England Program PDF
@ Lory Student Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Hancher Auditorium, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Pitman Theatre, Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI 1989 Sections: Sang and Sang and the Final Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ John van Duzer Theatre, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Royce Hall, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Theatre Artaud, Lively Arts at Stanford, San Francisco, CA 1989 Sections: Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Sang and sang and the Final Frost; Mozart, Memories, And the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather; Minnesota Program PDF
@ Lincoln Hall, Portland State University, Portland, OR 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Words, Music, Wildlife and Weather Program PDF
@ Macky Auditorium, University of California, Boulder, CO 1989 Program PDF
@ Kimo Theatre, Albuquerque, NM 1989 Program PDF
@ McAllister Auditorium, San Antonio, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Kimball Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 1989 Program PDF
@ Meany Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 1989 Program PDF
@ Mandeville Theatre, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 1989 Program PDF
@ Hartwood Music and Dance Festival, Pittsburgh, PA 1989 Program PDF
@ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Sang and Sang and the Final Frost; Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF
@ Cullen Theatre, Houston Society for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1989 Program PDF
@ McFarland Auditorium, The International Theatrical Arts Society, Dallas, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Davidson College, Davidson, NC 1989 Program PDF
@ State University of New York, Purchase, NY 1989 Program PDF
@ Zellerbach Theater, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center, PA 1989
@ Crafton-Preyer Theatre, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1989 Program PDF
@ Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO 1989 Sections: Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF
@ Carlton Dance Festival: Belo Horizonte, Palacio das Artes & Teatro Minicipal, BR 1990
@ Judson Memorial Church, NYC 1990 Sections: Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF
@ The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. 1989 Sections: Mozart, Memories, and the First Frost; Pounding the Beat and Slaughter; Sang and Sang and the Final Frost; Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF
@ Cullen Theatre, Houston Society for the Performing Arts, Houston, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Center for the Performing Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 1989 Program PDF
@ McFarland Auditorium, The International Theatrical Arts Society, Dallas, TX 1989 Program PDF
@ Davidson College, Davidson, NC 1989 Program PDF
@ State University of New York, Purchase, NY 1989 Program PDF
@ Zellerbach Theater, University of Pennsylvania, Annenberg Center, PA 1989
@ Crafton-Preyer Theatre, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 1989 Program PDF
@ Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, MO 1989 Sections: Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF
@ Carlton Dance Festival: Belo Horizonte, Palacio das Artes & Teatro Minicipal, BR 1990
@ Judson Memorial Church, NYC 1990 Sections: Weather; Birds in Trees and the Birthday of Congress Program PDF