David Salle

David Salle is identified in a brief diary entry through his relationship with choreographer Karole Armitage and his work on one of her ballets. The glimpse links him to costume design and artistic direction, placing him in the performing-arts setting surrounding a separate ballet commission for Andy Warhol.

Relationship and Artistic Role

The diary describes Salle as Karole Armitage’s boyfriend and says he designed the costumes for the ballet in which Robert LaFosse was making a guest appearance. It also identifies Salle as the artistic director. The entry offers no further account of their relationship or of his responsibilities, but it presents personal and professional connections side by side.

The Ballet in Context

The mention occurs on a Super Bowl Sunday when tickets had been set aside for Warhol to see LaFosse perform at the Joyce Theater. Later that evening, Paige had arranged dinner at Indochine with people from New York City Ballet to discuss a curtain they wanted Warhol to design. These details place Salle’s costume work within an evening shaped by overlapping dance and visual-art activity, without establishing that he took part in the dinner or the curtain commission.

A Brief Diary Appearance

Salle enters the record through a practical description of who made the costumes and who held the artistic-director role, rather than through a scene of his own. The diary preserves a concise trace of his connection to Armitage’s ballet while leaving his perspective, the production’s details, and the extent of his direct involvement otherwise unstated.