David Gordon
writer/director/choreographer
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Awards include:
2 Obies, 3 Bessies, 2 Dramalogues,
2 Guggenheims,
2 Pew Charitable Trust Grants
(in both Theater & Dance),
3 National Endowment for the Arts
American Masterpiece grants.
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is based on Luigi Pirandello’s
6 CHARACTERS
IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR.
A comedy/drama w/7
actors & dancers & 2
puppets edited, directed
& choreographed in a
backstage setting (w/music
of Pirandello peer Giacomo Puccini)
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will have an initial
wkshp Dec 27 – Jan 8,
2011 w/developmental
funding from the National
Endowment for the Arts,
The NYC Department of
Cultural Affairs & NYSCA
Joyce Soho
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W/ BRECHT & EISLER
borrows from Bertolt Brecht’s
play ROUNDHEADS & POINTHEADS
& from his writings on playwriting
& from Hanns Eisler’s
writing on composing
for theater. UW from an
original translation by
Michael Feingold, edited,
choreographed & directed by
David Gordon, re-addresses
historical works & racial,
religious & geographic
divisions resulting in war.
Co-commissioned by The
Kitchen & The Walker Art
Center & presented by
Skidmore College & Peak
Performances @ Montclair
State University, UNCIVIL
WARS is comedy/drama/
dance/theater w/14 songs.
is based on Shakespeare’s
HENRY V, w/additional text
by David Gordon & dances
to voices of Laurence Olivier
& Christopher Plummer & w/
music by Wm Walton from
40’s Olivier film. Directed &
choreographed by Gordon,
DH5 was commissioned by
Danspace Project NYC in
2004 & presented by The
Walker Art Center, ODC
Theater, Lied Center KS,
Univ. of MD, LexArts & twice
@ Danspace. DH5 will be
reconstructed fall 2011
presented by Columbia
College & Peak Performances
@ Montclair State University
funded by the NEA American
Masterpiece Dance Program.
was conceived & adapted by
Robert Brustein from a play
by Isaac Bashevis Singer
w/hand-clapping, foot
stomping Klezmer music by
Hankus Netsky & Zalmen
Mlotek, hilarious & romantic
lyrics by Arnold Weinstein,
co-produced in 1994 by
American Repertory Theater
& American Music Theater
Festival, choreographed,
directed, edited &
transformed into a furiously
paced postmodern farce
by David Gordon & reproduced
in 2010 by Gordon for Peak
Performances @ Montclair
State University w/an NEA
American Masterpiece grant.