Choreographed for the entire company, excluding Cunningham, the title refers to the fact that the piece was created in August of 1989. August Pace consisted of a series of seven duets, with chance procedures deciding when the two dancers would or would not come together during their dances. Michael Pugliese composed the music, entitled Peace Talks. In concurrence with the theme of two dancers joining together to share a duet, Peace Talks was based on, “the concept of a global union of socially and politically troubled nations.” Décor and costumes were by Sergei Bugaev, who used the sobriquet “Afrika.” The backcloth featured a number of colored pictographs, including a fish, an automobile and a rising sun, painted in folk-art style. The costumes were white turtlenecks and trousers for the men, and black turtlenecks and trousers for the women.