Ivy Baldwin Dance - About
Ivy Baldwin Dance is a New York City based performance company dedicated to the creation of original contemporary dance and theater. Known for her vivid imagination, Baldwin's interdisciplinary works break traditional boundaries, expectations and assumptions about dance performance. Through a broad range of mediums Baldwin and the company create emotionally engaging dance works that awaken, provoke and inspire audiences. The company of performers, described as "amazing, smart, physically fearless, dancer-actors-all..." (Village Voice), take you on journeys both beautiful and strange. Since its inception in 1999, the Company has been presented by many theaters, including Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Dixon Place, Danspace Project, Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA, Movement Research at Judson Church, Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp and Leonard Nimoy Thalia Theaters, PS 122, and La MaMa E.T.C, among others. The Company has presented work in numerous festivals and performance series' including Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany, Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival in Bacau, Romania, La MaMa Moves Dance Festival, Dance Sampler, Catch, Danceoff!, and the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.
Ivy Baldwin has received five commissions for original work from Dance Theater Workshop, Dance New Amsterdam, and Dixon Place. Ms. Baldwin is a recipient of numerous residency's including the 2009 Jerome Robbins Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship in Dance at the Liguria Study Center for the Arts and Humanities in Bogliasco, Italy, ArtistNe(s)t Choreographic Residency at the George Apostu Cultural Center in Bacau, Romania, Brooklyn Arts Exchange Space Grant, Sugar Salon Residency, a program of WAX and the Barnard College Dance Department of Columbia University, Bessie Schonberg
Choreographic Residency at The Yard,
and annual residency's at Dragon's Egg in CT. since 2004. The Company has been supported by the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Puffin Foundation, Dugas Family Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Ivy Baldwin teaches and choreographs as a guest artist within the university system and has received commissions for original student work from Barnard College, Iowa State University, North Carolina School of the Arts, NYU's Tisch School of the Arts & La MaMa E.T.C, and Hunter College. In spring 2007, she was an adjunct professor at Barnard College, and was selected as a featured choreographer on the educational DVD series "Downtown Dance - New York". As a performer Ivy has worked with Katie Workum Dance Theater and Karinne Keithley.
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BEAR CROWN
Described as "wildly, darkly imaginative" by The New York Times, Baldwin's work uses movement and theatrical abstraction to create "oddly coherent other worlds" (The New Yorker) inhabited by alluring characters. Ivy Baldwin Dance continues to evoke the serious and humorous sides of the human condition with its newest production. Bear Crown investigates the cause and effect of great transformation - personal, cultural, emotional - and the inevitable deterioration of what is often deemed powerful, beautiful, and grand. Cannons, harmonicas, sounds of warping metal, and Bonnie Tyler ballads accompany the performers of Bear Crown as they show off their muscles, skip nostalgically, and manhandle each other a bit too much. Bear Crown is choreographed by Ivy Baldwin and features Baldwin, Anna Carapetyan, Lawrence Cassella, Mindy Nelson, and Katie Workum, with Lighting by Chloe Z Brown, Sound by Justin Jones, Set by Mendel Rabinovitch, and Costumes by High-Fashion Designer Alice Ritter.
Bear Crown was premiered (March 18-21, 2009) and commissioned by Dance Theater Workshop's Commissioning and Creative Residency Program with support from the Jerome Foundation, The Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Jerome Robbins Foundation. This presentation is made possible, in part, by the generous support of Judy and Steven Gluckstern through the David R. White Producers Circle.
Additional support was provided by the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Ivy Baldwin Dance Commissioning Circle Member Olivier Rustat, and the Dugas Family Foundation. Bear Crown was created, in part, through an ArtistNe(s)t Residency, a program of the Swiss Cultural Programme at the George Apostu Cultural Center in Bacau, Romania. The Company's residency in Bacau was made possible by a generous grant from the Trust for Mutual Understanding. Bear Crown was created, in part, with a space grant from BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange with support from the Dance and Theater Programs of the New York State Council on the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, and Mertz Gilmore Foundation.
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Ivy Baldwin Dance is available for workshops, lecture demonstrations, master classes, and performances. Classes available include contemporary dance technique, dance composition, performance skills, repertory, Pilates mat, improvisation, grant writing for choreographers, and community based collaboration projects. Within the academic setting, Ivy Baldwin is also available to choreograph original student works.
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OCT 29-31, 2009
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Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival
Bacau, Romania
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JAN 8, 2010 |
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Pentacle's APAP Showcase
The Ailey Citigroup Theater
405 West 55th St. @ 9th Ave.
6:45 - 11:00 pm
Ivy Baldwin Dance: 9:35 pm
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Fall 2010
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Premiere of new work
Location TBA
New York, NY
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PHOTOS
Background: Marc Lynn, Insets from top left: Steven Schreiber, Marc Lynn, Steven Schreiber
