Ivy Baldwin Dance is a New York City based performance company dedicated to the creation of original dance-theater. Known for her vivid imagination, Baldwin's interdisciplinary works break traditional boundaries, expectations and assumptions about theater performance. Through a broad range of mediums Baldwin and the company creates 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, Williamsburg Art Nexus (WAX), Painted Bride in Philadelphia, PA, Movement Research at the Judson Church, Symphony Space's Peter Jay Sharp and Leonard Nemoy Theaters, PS 122 and Washington University. The Company has presented work in numerous festivals and performance series' including Catch, Danceoff!, Dancenow, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, and Tanz in August in Berlin, Germany.

Ivy Baldwin has received a Bessie Schönberg/First Light Commission from Dance Theater Workshop with funds from the Jerome Foundation, a DNA Presents commission from Dance New Amsterdam, two Mondo Cane! commissions from Dixon Place, and four commissions for original student work from Barnard College, Iowa State University, North Carolina School of the Arts, and NYU's Tisch School of the Arts.

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COULD BE NICE....

Could be nice.... is a 2007 Mondo Cane! Commission from Dixon Place with funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, the Peg Santvoord Foundation, Jerome Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.  Additional support has been provided by the Karen & William Tell Foundation, IBD Commissioning Circle member Olivier Rustat, and creative residencies at Dragon's Egg. Could be nice.... was originally presented as a work in progress by Dixon Place and as an evening-length premiere by La MaMa E.T.C in the La MaMa Moves Dance Festival in NYC.

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