Ivy Baldwin Dance
2011 Swing Space Resident, 14 Wall Street, Vault
Ivy Baldwin Dance, founded in 1999 by choreographer and performer Ivy Baldwin, is a Brooklyn based contemporary dance company. Since its inception, the Company has been presented by Dance Theater Workshop, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Dixon Place, LaMaMa E.T.C, Danspace Project, and The New Museum of Contemporary Art, among others, and has toured internationally to the Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival in Bacau, Romania and Tanz im August in Berlin, Germany. The Company has received commissions from DTW ('06 & '09), Dixon Place ('04 & '07), and Dance New Amsterdam ('07). Ms. Baldwin is the recipient of numerous artist residencies and fellowships including an ArtistNe(s)t Residency in Bacau, Romania and the Bogliasco Foundation's Jerome Robbins Fellowship in Dance in Bogliasco, Italy. Ms. Baldwin has been fortunate to receive funding from the William and Karen Tell Foundation, Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Puffin Foundation, and Trust for Mutual Understanding.
Baldwin's current projects include the touring of Bear Crown, an evening-length dance premiered by Dance Theater Workshop in 2009, 2009/10 Harkness Foundation Choreographer-in-Residence at Hunter College, and teaching dance composition at Dance New Amsterdam.
During her LMCC space grant Ivy Baldwin will be developing her latest work, Here Rests Peggy, a new evening-length quartet to premiere at The Chocolate Factory Theater October 18-30, 2010. Peggy will include an original installation by visual artist Anna Schuleit, original score by Justin Jones, and performances by Lawrence Cassella, Eleanor Smith, Katie Workum, and Ivy Baldwin.
Photo Credit: Mark Lynn, Performers: Ivy Baldwin, Anna Carapetyan, Lawrence Cassella, Katie Workum & Mindy Nelson, Work: Bear Crown
