David Gordon

From his beginning as a founding artist of the seminal Judson Church performances and the improvisational Grand Union, David Gordon purposefully examined, expanded, and torpedoed conventional lines between theater and dance and pioneered the use of text and textual narrative in movement work. His dual status as movement artist and theater artist was acknowledged when he was awarded a Pew Charitable Trust National Dance Residency grant and a National Theater Residency grant in successive years. He received three NEA American Masterpiece Grant Awards and a Doris Duke Performing Artist Award. His online archive is available online at davidgordon.nyc and his work is in the permanent collection at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts. Commissions for directing or choreographing include: The Actors Studio, American Ballet Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, American Repertory Theater, Barbican (London), BBC Channel 4 UK, London Dance Umbrella, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Dance Theater Workshop, Danspace Project, Guthrie Theater, Joyce Theater, The Kitchen, PBS series Alive from Off Center, Mark Taper Forum, New York Theatre Workshop, On The Boards (Seattle, WA), PBS Great Performances, Serious Fun @ Lincoln Center, Spoleto USA, Theatre For a New Audience, Walker Art Center, White Oak Dance Project.