[2] After his father's death in 1987, the building at 456 Broadway in Cambridge was named in his honor: Gustave M Solomons Transportation Career Center.
[1] Gus Solomons Jr. started dancing at the age of 4,[3] taking tap, acrobatics, and ballet classes at a local studio.
[4][6][3] Solomons moved o New York City in August 1961 to appear in “Kicks & Co.,”[7][3] a Broadway-bound show with choreography by Donald McKayle and Walter Nicks.
[3][8] He danced with several New York companies, including Pearl Lang, Donald McKayle, Paul Sanasardo, Joyce Trisler, and Martha Graham.
[9][5][10] He was also part of Studio 9, a studio-sharing cooperative with Elizabeth Keen, Phoebe Neville, Cliff Keuter, Elina Mooney, Kenneth King, and others.
[5][4] [12] He undertook a clinical, postmodern approach to dance-making that linked a fascination with puzzles and architectural design to the process of "kinetic autobiography".
[3][11][10] in 1982, Solomons presented his work at “Parallels,” a dance event for Black choreographers, along with Ralph Lemon, Bebe Miller, Blondell Cummings, Harry Whittaker Sheppard, and others, at Danspace Project, New York.
[4] In 2009, he restaged his Statement of Nameless Roots (1976) for the Spectrum Theater in Seattle, Washington, and on the program the work was titled, “Icon-Clan – Three Generations of American Iconoclasts work share the Stage: MERCE CUNNINGHAM, GUS SOLOMONS JR, and DONALD BYRD.” [11] In 1968, Solomons collaborated with writer Mary Feldhaus-Weber and composer John Morris to create “City/Motion/Space/Game” produced by Rick Hauser for WGBH-TV in Boston.