Valda Setterfield Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Valda Setterfield Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Valda Setterfield (born September , ) is a British postmodern dancer

and actress, noted for her work as a soloist with the Merce Cunningham

Dance Company and for her performances in works by her husband,

postmodern choreographer and director David Gordon. She has been

described as his muse. Their son, playwright and actor Ain Gordon, has

worked with Setterfield on a number of projects as well.In England,

Setterfield trained in ballet with Marie Rambert and Audrey De Vos,

and mime with Tamara Karsavina, and performed in English pantomime.

She also performed in an Italian revue. In , on the promise of a

scholarship to study with José Limón, she came to the United States,

following her good friend David Vaughan. Vaughan and Setterfield have

remained good friends.Setterfield appeared with the improvisational

dance company The Grand Union and in the works of Katherine Litz,

Yvonne Rainer, Robert Wilson, Richard Foreman and JoAnne Akalaitis.

She performed with David Gordon â€" whom she first met when they were

both in the company of choreographer James Waring â€" at The Living

Theatre and Judson Dance Theater, and is a founding member of Pick Up

Performance Co(s). She was featured artist on the WNET/PBS Dance

documentary America’s Beyond The Mainstream and in costarred with

Mikhail Baryshnikov in David Gordon's Made in USA for WNET/PBS Great

Performances. In she returned to Rambert as guest artist, performing

in a Gordon’s Mates.Setterfield played Marcel Duchamp in the Bessie-

and Obie Award-winning The Mysteries & What’s So Funny? () and

toured Europe and Japan with the White Oak Dance Project in . She has

acted in the work of her son, playwright Ain Gordon, at Soho Rep and

Dance Theater Workshop and played herself in his Art, Life & Show Biz

at PS and elsewhere. She danced in Gus Solomons Jr.'s A Thin Frost in

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Valda Setterfield Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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