about
Ivy Baldwin is a NY-based choreographer and founder of Ivy Baldwin Dance. Since 1999, she’s created 19 works for the company. Commissioning organizations include BAM / Next Wave Festival; The Joyce Theater; New York Live Arts; Abrons Arts Center; Dance Theater Workshop; The Philip Johnson Glass House (New Canaan, CT); Manitoga/Russel Wright Design Center (Garrison, NY); Dixon Place; LaMaMa; E.T.C.; The Wooden Floor (Santa Ana, CA); and 3 commissions from The Chocolate Factory Theater.
Baldwin has received fellowships and residencies from the Guggenheim Foundation (Choreography, ‘14); Bogliasco Foundation (Italy); ArtistNe(s)t (Romania); MacDowell; Yaddo; The Yard; and Marble House. AIR positions include BAM; Gibney DiP; Chashama; Abrons Arts Center; CPR; Movement Research; Manitoga; JCAL; Snug Harbor Cultural Center; BAX; 92Y; Kaatsbaan; MASS MoCA; Mount Tremper Arts; LMCC; BAX; and NY State Dance Force.
Baldwin has received funding from the Jerome Foundation; William and Karen Tell Foundation; NYFA; FCA Emergency Grants; Trust for Mutual Understanding; Puffin Foundation; Dance/ NYC, and others.
Her work has been presented by Tanz im August (Germany); Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival (Romania); REDCAT (CA); Irvine Barclay Theater (CA); American Dance Institute (MD); Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago (IL); Appel Farm Arts Center (NJ); The Painted Bride (PA); Lincoln Center Out of Doors; Symphony Space; 92Y; New Museum; Danspace Project; and P.S. 122. Additional commissions include original works for Same Planet Performance Projects (Chicago, IL).
Baldwin has held positions at Bard College; The New School; NYU Tisch; North Carolina School of the Arts; Rutgers University; Hunter College; Barnard College; Iowa State; Long Island University; and BAM Education Department.
Since 1999, Baldwin has collaborated closely with visual artists, including Anna Schuleit (MacArthur Fellow), Wade Kavanaugh and Stephen B. Nguyen (Ellis-Beauregard Fellows) and most recently, Ukrainian artist Inna Babaeva at The Chocolate Factory. In 2018, Keen [No.2] received a Bessie Nomination for Outstanding Production Design with a set by Kavanaugh and Nguyen.
Ivy Baldwin Dance has been presented in New York City by BAM, Abrons Arts Center, The Chocolate Factory, The Joyce Theater (Joyce Unleashed), Dance Theater Workshop, New York Live Arts, La MaMa, E.T.C, The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Lincoln Center Out of Doors Festival/Danceoff!, Dixon Place, 92nd St. Y, Symphony Space, P.S. 122/Coil/Catch, Danspace Project at St. Marks Church, Dance New Amsterdam, Movement Research at the Judson Church, among others, and nationally and internationally at American Dance Institute (MD), Philip Johnson Glass House (CT), REDCAT (CA), Irvine Barclay Theater (CA), Manitoga (NY), Appel Farm Performing Arts Center (NJ), The Painted Bride (PA), Tanz im August (Danceoff!) (Germany), and Dans Contemporan International Dance Festival (Romania). The Company has enjoyed creative residencies at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Mount Tremper Arts, Kaatsbaan International Dance Center, Chashama, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Dragon’s Egg, and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.