Press

It's Only Me
Dance New Amsterdam, NYC
March 28-31, 2007
"The young Ivy Baldwin is a choreographer with a knack for creating oddly coherent other worlds. Her peripatetic imagination turns her dancers into composite creatures, funny and poignant, whose gaits, gestures, and behaviors elicit fascination and empathy"
The New Yorker
April 2, 2007
Excerpt of dance previews
"A fusion of low and high, of elegant and comic, is Baldwin's secret weapon and the source of her great charm."

"By turns beautiful and ridiculous, achingly familiar and bracingly strange, Baldwin's piece kept us off balance."
Gay City News
April 6, 2007
Excerpt from Wallflower Order by Elizabeth Zimmer
"Baldwin creates hermetic, narrative evenings that don't feel quite like anything else."

"Baldwin has a vivid imagination and clear, if very strange, fantasies that she brings to life."
Culture Vulture
April 10, 2007
by Susan Young


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Gone Missing
Dance Theater Workshop, NYC
March 1-4, 2006
"A double bill I saw recently at Dance Theater Workshop (Ivy Baldwin Dance & Kate Weare) can stand for an entire generation of choreographers."
The New York Times: Sunday Arts & Leisure
March 12, 2006
Excerpt from If It's Physical, It's Dance by John Rockwell
"... both women's dances are so smart and so well executed and so full of stimulating invitations for thought..."
The New York Times
March 3, 2006
Excerpt from Secrecy in the Snow, Followed by Desire in the Flesh by John Rockwell
"Still, thinking back over 2006, I remember a few instances of transformation. One is Ivy Baldwin's GONE MISSING at Dance Theater Workshop. The lights came up on performers frozen in snow-covered tableaux, evoking travelers on a large ship drifting into unknown waters, and I was hooked. I wasn‚t the only one; the focus of this moment commanded a palpable hush from the audience. The quiet mystery of the wintry landscape coupled with the heart-wrenching, pathetic humanity of these under-dressed, under-equipped travelers created a hypnotic environment where punctuating expressions of desperation were continually silenced, as if covered over by a fresh blanket of snow. As some of the lost travelers met icy ends, our view began shifting with clever spatial manipulation taking us under as well as above the frozen landscape. Hints of Russian dialogue further proved the humanity of these wanderers ˆ connecting us to them at the same time distancing our American ears. This gorgeous, poetic journey was sweet, heartbreaking, and utterly captivating."
Movement Research Online Correspondence
2006, an ongoing retrospective
by Sarah Maxfield
"... a wonderfully haunting dance-theater piece... Baldwin shapes a few images and ideas with clear yet delicate strokes."

"The five amazing performers... speak out loud in terse Russian."
The Village Voice
March 15, 2006
Excerpt from In The Cold by Deborah Jowitt
"Gone Missing traded in simple movement and visual pleasure... through disarming childlike devices, Baldwin simulated the experience of being read a bedtime story..."
Gay City News
March 9, 2006
Excerpt from Storytelling with the Body
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa

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Now Leaving Vanderville
Dixon Place, NYC
November 4-13, 2004
"You could probably use some belly laughs and choreographer Ivy Baldwin's got 'em."
"... smart, physically fearless, dancer-actors all... "
The Village Voice
November 10, 2004
Excerpt from Royal Family in Vanderville
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
"A wild ride from beginning to end, it is feel-good dance theater with subtle, dark allusions."

"The dance is to songs by Kurt Weill performed live with gorgeous warmth by Carrie Lewis, with Franz Nicolay on piano. The twists and turns of 'Now Leaving Vanderville' can be breathtaking and jittery."
Offoffoff.com
November 17, 2004
Excerpt from Two Sides of The Queen by Lori Ortiz

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2002-2003
"Ivy Baldwin has a wild imagination... she is also unafraid of testing her audiences limits... original and promising."
The New York Times
April 16, 2003
Review of Ivy Baldwin Dance NYC season
Joyce SoHo - NY, NY
Excerpt from Pieces Awash in Originality, Sometimes on the Edge
by Jennifer Dunning
"Ivy Baldwin Dance's 'To Tears in a Bucket' has a lot of power... "
Philadelphia Enquirer
September 4, 2003
Review of the Philadelphia Fringe Festival - Philadelphia, PA
by Merilyn Jackson
"Ivy Baldwin's 'To Tears in a Bucket' a sadomasochistic playlet... was the most strident."
The Village Voice
November 19, 2003
Review of Dance Theater Workshops's Fresh Tracks Series - NY, NY
by Elizabeth Zimmer
"Audiences appropriately squirmed as Ivy Baldwin's 'Portrait of the Family by a Turquoise Sea' gave a chilling account of a story behind an old family photograph."
Independent Weekly
August 13, 2003
Review of the Bessie Schonberg Residency at The Yard - Chilmark, MA
by Byron Woods

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1999 - 2001
"Ivy Baldwin adventures through her 'One Flew Sideways'... Baldwin creates a beguiling character, always a little out of step with her life."
The Village Voice
October 2, 2001
Review of curated showing at Dixon Place - NY, NY
by Deborah Jowitt
"Ivy Baldwin raised the energy level considerably with her wonderfully nutty 'One Flew Sideways'... The music of Nuova Dincanto Popalarie added to the hilarity of the quartet."
The New York Times
August 14, 2001
Review of Up! On the Roof - NY, NY
by Jennifer Dunning
"Seven silver faced women marched maniacally in spirals... It's look of German expressionism is accentuated by Tom Waits... "
Dance Magazine
January 2000
Review of New York ON New York - St. Mark's Church - NY, NY
by Gus Solomons Jr.
"Ivy Baldwin's 'One Flew Sideways' featured strong women, unrefined, larger than life, driven by will above all."
The Village Voice
April 25, 2000
Review of Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks Series - NY, NY
by Eva Yaa Asantewaa
"Some of the jitters held the attention: the deliberate way in which Ivy Baldwin had four women slip and slide in 'One Flew Sideways' made this piece a study of desperate attempts to preserve physical and mental balance."
The New York Times
April 24, 2000
Review of Dance Theater Workshop's Fresh Tracks Series - NY, NY
by Jack Anderson
"... captivatingly choreographed and cunningly designed... "
Back Stage
October 22, 1999
Review of New York on New York at St. Mark's Church
NY, NY
by Lisa Jo Sagolla

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