Pick Up Performance Co.

Pick Up Performance Co. (PUPC) is a development, production, and presenting organization. Incorporated in 1978 by choreographer/director David Gordon (1936-2022), in 1992 PUPC expanded its artistic leadership to support the work of writer/director Ain Gordon, who now helms the company. For more than forty-five years, PUPC has produced more than 100 performance works on stage & film structured on multi-year production/development models in partnership with leading performance venues, community organizations, and universities including in recent years Arizona Arts Live, Brooklyn Academy Music, NY Public Library for the Performing Arts, Baryshnikov Arts, New York Live Arts, La MaMa ETC (all NY); International Festival of Arts & Ideas (CT), Krannert Center for the Performing Arts (IL), Pennsylvania Historical Society (PA), Wexner Center for the Arts (OH), William Way LGBT Community Center (PA), UCLA Center for the Art of Performance (CA).