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Second Hand Dance was an American physical theater and dance company founded in 1987 in Binghamton, New York.^[1] The company was co-founded by Paul Gordon, Gregory O'Brien, and Andy Horowitz, and performed works combining physical theater, acrobatics, comedy, and dance. Over its fifteen-year existence it toured more than 35 countries and received critical recognition across the United States and internationally.

Second Hand Dance was founded in 1987 by Paul Gordon, Gregory O'Brien, and Andy Horowitz, following their meeting in a dance class at the State University of New York at Binghamton.^[2] The company's name derived from its practice of sourcing costumes, props, and sets from yard sales, flea markets, and discarded materials.^[3]

The company made its New York debut at P.S. 122, earning a review in the Village Voice in early 1989.^[3] That same month, the New York Times reviewed the company at the Joyce Theater.^[4]

By 1990 the company had expanded to include a fourth member, Valerie Talbot, and was presenting new works including 99,000,099 Years Ago, which the New York Times described as a work that "may well become a signature work."^[1]

A 1991 feature interview in The Morning Call described the company's unique collaborative creative process, in which all movement was developed equally among the three founders, with no single piece accepted unless all three agreed it belonged.^[2]

The company toured widely through the 1990s, performing at the Baird Auditorium in Washington, D.C.,^[5] Kutztown University's Schaeffer Auditorium,^[6] Pepperdine University's Smothers Theatre in California,^[7] and the New Victory Theater in New York City.^[8]

In 1996 the company performed internationally, including at the Oriente Occidente Festival at Teatro Zandonai in Rovereto, Italy,^[9] and at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe at the Assembly Rooms, where the company received a favorable notice in The Stage.^[10] That year the company also received the Critics' Choice Award in the Dance category from the SoS Edinburgh Festival Critics' Awards.

By 1998 the Los Angeles Times reported that the company was Broadway-bound.^[7]

All choreography was developed collaboratively among the company's members with no single person directing. Gordon described the process: "We don't even stare at each other. Because we're three, the triangulation means that each person stares between the other people... the only place that the focus truly interacts is right in the middle."^[2]

The Stage described the company's Edinburgh show as "a pinch of contemporary dance, mixed with lashings of gymnastics, acrobatics and mime," praising "the strength, physicality and control" of the three performers and calling it "unique theatre."^[10]

The Village Voice described the company as organizing bodies into "intriguing contraptions after models that are more mechanical and architectural."^[3]

The Washington Post described the performers as stretching "the parameters of dance as well as their supple bodies in a display of movement that is more common to circus acrobats than modern dancers."^[5]

The New York Times characterized the company's aesthetic as "Pilobolus crossed with German Expressionism, sugar-coated with faux naivete and spiced with a mad humor," while the Los Angeles Times placed them "in the venerable tradition of commedia dell'arte" alongside companies such as Pilobolus and Mummenschanz.^[1][7]

The Oriente Occidente Festival programme described the company's foundational characteristics as "simplicity, humor, and physical discipline," noting that their shows typically comprised short pieces accompanied not by recorded music but by the performers' own voices and percussive footwork.^[9]

Works in the company's repertoire included The Weird Sisters, From the Depths, Moving to Mahler, Exhibit A, To Arms!, Clackers, 99,000,099 Years Ago, Slow Waltz With Dogs, Three Tangos, and Human Fly.

• Paul Gordon — co-founder and performer.
• Gregory O'Brien — co-founder and performer.
• Andy Horowitz — co-founder, performer, and composer of several company works.
• Valerie Talbot — joined the company in 1990.

Second Hand performed at venues across the United States and internationally, including:

• P.S. 122, New York City (1989)
• The Joyce Theater, New York City (1989–1990)
• Broughal Middle School Auditorium, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania — presented by Lehigh University (1991)
• Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1992)
• Schaeffer Auditorium, Kutztown University, Pennsylvania (1993)
• Teatro Zandonai, Rovereto, Italy — Oriente Occidente Festival (1996)
• Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Edinburgh, Scotland (1996)
• Smothers Theatre, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California (1998)
• New Victory Theater, New York City (1998)

The company toured internationally, performing in more than 35 countries including Japan, Russia, and across Europe.

• 1996 — Critics' Choice Award, Dance category, SoS Edinburgh Festival Critics' Awards, Edinburgh Festival Fringe^[10]

Second Hand Dance dissolved in the early 2000s following the departure of co-founder Paul Gordon. Gregory O'Brien and Andy Horowitz continued performing under the new name Galumpha, adding a new company member. Galumpha initially performed the same choreography developed during the Second Hand years before creating original work of their own.^[11]

The Internationales Strassenfestival Heppenheim in Germany documented the transition, having hosted Second Hand Dance in 1997 and subsequently Galumpha in 2004 and 2007.^[11]

Gordon went on to develop a career as a performance educator and camera presence coach. O'Brien and Horowitz continued performing internationally as Galumpha.