After performing with James Waring and Yvonne Rainer in the 1960s, David Gordon showed work in the first Judson Church performances and was a founding member of the improvisational Grand Union in 1970. He began his Pickup Performance Company the next year and, as its name implies, he works with his own performers on a pickup basis in between commissions for major companies such as American Ballet Theatre, Dance Theater of Harlem, and the White Oak Dance Project. He made his Pillow debut in 1981, and most recently presented his Private Lives of Dancers in 2002. Gordon’s wife and muse, Valda Setterfield, recreates her role from a 1972 work in the excerpt seen here.
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