Career
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.
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 at The Living Theater and Judson Dance Theater. She was featured artist on the W National Educational Television/Public Broadcasting Service Dance documentary America’s Beyond The Mainstream and in 1987 costarred with Mikhail Baryshnikov in Gordon’s Made in United States of America for W National Educational Television/Public Broadcasting Service Great Performances.
In 1988 she returned to Rambert as guest artist in Gordon’s Mates.
(1990) and toured Europe and Japan with the White Oak Dance Project in 1992. She danced in Gus Solomons Junior."s A Thin Frost in 1994. In film, Setterfield has appeared in the work of Yvonne Rainer and Brian de Palma, and performed the choreography of Graciela Daniele in Woody Allen"s Mighty Aphrodite and Everyone Says I Love You.
In 2003, she danced at the 25th anniversary celebration of British Dance Umbrella, and in 2004/5 she performed in Dancing Henry Five at the Pantages Theater in Minneapolis, Danspace in New York City, the ODC Theatre in San Francisco, and other venues.
She played The Old Woman in Eugène Ionesco"s The Chairs at London’s Barbican Theater, On the Boards (Seattle), and at the Brooklyn Academy of Music"s Next Wave Festival. She has also played the role of Bertolt Brecht in Gordon’s Uncivil Wars, which is based on Brechts"s Roundheads and Pointheads.
Setterfield has appeared in Jonah Bokaer"s Player & Prayer (2008, with Carmen De Lavallade and Gus Solomons Junior), Anchises (2010) and Occupant (2013).